Senior Manufacturing Process Engineer

Own a portfolio of customers building satellites, fusion reactors, submarines and robots, and the factories that make their parts. You'll take every job from the first drawing review to good parts on the bench, and help a profitable, fast-growing business decide how it runs.

This is a profitable, boutique manufacturing consultancy that gets custom parts made for hardware teams, from start-ups to blue chips. Engineers send in CAD, the team reviews it, briefs long-standing partner factories in China, the UK and Europe, and manages the job to quality-checked delivery. More than 400,000 parts across about 4,000 projects, mostly for repeat customers, and a place on the FT1000 list of Europe's fastest growing companies.

The role

Day-to-day you'll review RFQs, CAD and drawings, spot the DFM issues across CNC, sheet metal, anodising and plating, and explain them to busy engineers in plain language. You'll brief the factories, challenge their quotes, issue your own, and track orders through production, handling slippage and quality calmly when manufacturing reality bites. You'll sit alongside the founder and a manufacturing project engineer, set the pace for a newer hire, and fix the processes that cause rework or delay.

It's a step up into running part of a business, not just projects. You'll own customer relationships, re-engage old clients and bring orders in, in a team where good ideas get tried the same week.

What you'll need

• Proven experience running customer-facing manufacturing projects, sitting between the people who design parts and the suppliers or factories who make them.
• Practical DFM knowledge for CNC machined parts and working knowledge of finishing such as anodising, plating and bead blasting.
• Confidence reading and interrogating CAD models and 2D drawings, even where you aren't the person who designed the part.
• An outgoing, commercial streak. You're happy to pick up the phone to a client, explain a trade-off and ask for the order.

The details

• Reporting to the Founder and director
• Small studio team of four, close to Lee station
• Around four days a week in the studio
• Funded factory trips to China and the UK
• Start: ASAP
• 33 days holiday including bank holidays and your birthday
• Private health including mental health, same-day GP and physio
• Employer pension and a discretionary bonus
• MacBook Pro, monitor and home office kit

What it isn't

This isn't a corporate engineering role with a department behind you. It's a team of four, so everyone does a bit of everything, including marketing and chasing old clients for work. You won't own the design of the parts, you'll get them made correctly. And it's four days a week in the studio, more in the early months. If you want a big team, a defined ladder or a fully remote role, this won't suit. If you want to be a big part of a small business, it will.

If this sounds like your next move, click Apply and we'll be in touch.