Production Engineering Placement
This placement offers the opportunity to gain a hands-on
experience in a busy production environment, supporting the
manufacturing team with all activities.
Some of the duties of the role include supporting high volume
manufacturing lines using lean techniques to improve quality and
product output on life saving products. The student works as
part of a team to help reduce costs and process times using various
tools from the lean toolbox such as root cause analysis, the 7
wastes, Ishikawa (Fish Bone diagram), Kaizen, Spaghetti diagrams,
Six Sigma and process mapping.
A significant part of the role is to provide day-to-day
production support, supplying the production lines with small
tools, jigs and fixtures and resolving operational issues. With
approximately 300 members of production staff on site, this will
provide an ideal opportunity to enhance soft skills.
For the right candidate this placement will provide a fantastic
experience within a world class manufacturing environment.
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Recruiting for the academic year (2012-2013) has
now closed.Please check back in the New Year
for information on applying for the next academic year
(2013-2014).