Type: 12-month contract (rolling)**

Rates: PAYE: 26.22/hr up to 29.97/hr + holiday pay Umbrella: 35/hr up to 40/hr

Location: Burnley (Full-time onsite)

Hours: Standard 37 hrs/week

This is an excellent opportunity to support a world-class organisation, playing a key role in defining, validating and improving assembly manufacturing processes across a fast-paced and technically challenging environment.

As a Manufacturing Engineer (Assemblies), you will support the development of robust, compliant and efficient manufacturing processes from engineering definition through to industrial validation. The role combines technical leadership, hands-on process design, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure quality, cost and delivery objectives are consistently achieved.

• Define and validate manufacturing processes, ensuring consistency, compliance and alignment with business standards.

• Design manufacturing processes using a Takt/Flow approach with ergonomic and safety considerations.

• Create and maintain SOPs, work instructions, inspection methods, control points and quality documentation.

• Develop routes, BOMs, master layouts, tooling requests, COSs, data sheets and production support drawings.

• Ensure process designs meet targets for quality, cost and delivery.

• Provide technical support to internal teams and external suppliers.

• Plan, drive and coordinate industrialisation activities and product validation.

• Participate in the definition of manufacturing concepts, equipment selection and workplace layout design.

• Work closely with Programme teams including HSE, Digitalisation and Environmental initiatives.

• Represent Manufacturing Engineering in customer-facing discussions alongside the Industrial Programme Manager.

• Use PFMEA and SPC to manage engineering risk and ensure sustainable, repeatable processes.

• Deliver improvement and industrialisation projects within scope.

• Support ongoing process flow and line performance improvements.

• Engage in lean projects and ensure updates are accurately reflected in ERP systems.

• Participate in Level 1 and Level 2 QRQC activities.

• Experience working with complex assembly manufacturing processes, ideally within the aerospace sector.

• Engineering degree (Mechanical, Manufacturing, Materials), HND, or equivalent work experience.

• Medium to high competency in CATIA v5, with the ability to interpret and work with 3D component models.