Senior Manufacturing Engineer Company: David Brown Defence Location: Huddersfield, HD4 7AN Salary: Up to £65,000 depending on experience Contract: Permanent Hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours Travel: Up to 5% UK Security: Security clearance required The Role David Brown Defence is looking for an experienced Senior Manufacturing Engineer to support complex manufacturing and assembly operations within its Huddersfield facility.

The role will provide technical leadership across production, working closely with Manufacturing, Design Engineering and Quality to solve manufacturing problems, improve processes and ensure components can be manufactured efficiently and accurately.

A key part of the position is developing expertise across gear manufacture , particularly hobbing, shaping, profile grinding and finish grinding, alongside supporting the business's move towards more digital measurement methods.

Key Responsibilities Provide technical guidance and problem solving to manufacturing and assembly teams

Become a Subject Matter Expert for gear profile generation , including hobbing, shaping and profile grinding

Support finish grinding of journals, cones and thrust faces

Assess component manufacturability and machine-tool capability

Provide manufacturing input into engineering design reviews

Lead PFMEAs, process mapping and risk mitigation

Interpret technical drawings and create manufacturing/stage drawings

Drive continuous improvement across quality, cycle time and manufacturing processes

Design bespoke manufacturing methods and tooling

Create works orders, technical packs, routings and operations

Ensure manufacturing processes incorporate Quality Assurance requirements

Support digital measurement methods and automation of measurement data processing

Provide training and technical guidance to Production and Quality teams

Support manufacturing activities involving heat-treated components

What We're Looking For Strong Manufacturing Engineering experience within precision mechanical manufacturing

Knowledge of rotating component manufacture, including turning, boring and milling

Experience or strong knowledge of gear manufacturing processes

Strong understanding of GD&T and dimensional measurement

Ability to interpret technical drawings and create/approve manufacturing drawings

Experience of CNC programming

Good understanding of manufacturing methods and machine-tool capability

Experience leading PFMEAs and continuous improvement activities

2D and 3D CAD capability

SAP knowledge within a manufacturing environment

Understanding of heat-treatment processes

Ability to provide technical guidance, training and mentoring

Minimum Diploma-level qualification with relevant experience

About David Brown Defence David Brown Defence provides high-integrity mechanical power transmission solutions for naval and land defence applications , with extensive expertise in complex gearing and precision manufacturing.

The position will require the successful candidate to meet the relevant security clearance and export-control requirements .

For our search, this makes the hierarchy much clearer: gears/rotating component manufacture → machining/CNC → GD&T/dimensional measurement → PFMEA/process improvement → CAD/tooling → technical leadership.

That's much closer to the background of the candidate DBD already offered as well.

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