Job Description

COME JOIN OUR JOURNEY!

When you join TT, you join our global community of visionaries, creators, and achievers dedicated to engineering and manufacturing electronic solutions enabling a safer, healthier and more sustainable world. Simply put, we are a global manufacturer with a passion for engineering advanced electronics that benefit our planet and people for future generations. We are committed to having a positive impact on the world through a culture built around safety, transparency, collaboration, and positive relationships. Our teams are fuelled by performance and expertise, leading the charge in innovation, efficiency and delivering world-class customer service. Be part of the journey.

and Responsibilities

This is an excellent opportunity to take the step from Senior Engineer to a direct Management position and lead a team of 8 to 10 Engineers and Technicians through manufacture and complex electronics assembly of products going into a range of regulated industries.

Key Responsibilities:

• Team leadership: Lead and develop a multi-disciplinary team of engineers and technicians while fostering a culture of technical and operational excellence.
• Continuous Improvement Drive continuous improvement initiatives using Lean tools and diagnostics to reduce the Cost of Poor Quality (CoPQ) and waste.
• Technical Ownership Oversee core assembly modules developing and maintaining KPI’s to drive deliverables against key strategic objectives.
• Yield & Stability Manage daily yield, driving the elimination stoppages and downtime to achieve world class OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness).
• SPC & Control Implement real-time Statistical Process Control for critical-to-quality (CTQ) parameters.
• Yield-Test Correlation Apply data driven analytics to identify process excursions and drive root-cause corrective actions (RCCA).
• Validation Manage the industrialisation of process development and test system validation, including Design of Experiments (DoE) and Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility (GR&R) studies for optimisation and repeatability.
• AE Integration Coordinate the introduction of automated equipment in process and Test and hardware/software interfaces into the production flow.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with the Product team during the New Product Introduction (NPI) phase to ensure DfM and DfT capability. Work with Production, Quality and Supply Chain teams to resolve technical challenges and maximise Operational Efficiencies.
• Production Support: Support day to day production demand NPI activities, collaborating across wider operations.
• Budget Ownership: With support from your line manager, manage budgets for implementing equipment upgrades and improvements in line with objectives.

Qualifications, Skills and Attributes

Qualifications required

• Engineering Degree in relevant discipline or qualified by experience.

An additional certification in lean six sigma, Total Preventative Maintenance (TPM), etc would be beneficial but is not essential to apply.

Skills and Experience required

• A background in microelectronics assembly, packaging and test.
• Strong experience in a manufacturing or process engineering role.
• Familiarity with TPM, equipment maintainability, and operational performance metrics (OEE, TTP, DT, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to lead engineering teams, manage budgets, and drive change in complex environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in digital manufacturing or Industry 4.0 implementation.
• Exposure to industrial investment planning and ROI analysis.
• Familiar with SPS frameworks or similar operational excellence systems.

What We Offer You:

From this role you will have the opportunity to develop the experience needed to explore and progress to more senior leadership roles within TT Electronics Bedlington, or the wider group, if this is in your own career plan.

• Competitive Salary
• Enhanced pension contributions
• Healthcare cashback plan
• Employee assistance programme
• Site incentive plan
• Financial wellbeing benefit
• Discounted online and high street shopping and lifestyle vouchers
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Discounted RAC membership
• Discounted Gym membership
• 5 weeks (in hours) annual leave plus bank holidays
• A supportive and friendly working environment with a focus on wellbeing and sustainability

TT Electronics are committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and actively encourage applications from under-represented groups.

Please be aware that many roles at TT Electronics are subject to both security and export control restrictions which means that limitations relating to nationality may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates must achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). TT Electronics is unable to sponsor work visas for this role.

We hold Health and Safety in the highest regard at TT, with the Wellbeing of our employees our top priority. Any successful candidate will be required to successfully pass a pre-employment Drug and Alcohol Screening.

Solving Technology Challenges for a Sustainable World

We want the very best people in our TT family across the globe – so we welcome applications from everyone, to celebrate a diverse mix of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and you can rest assured that TT Electronics takes positive steps to ensure we are an inclusive business, that will welcome and support you, from your initial application to wherever your career takes you!Please get in touch if you’d like to discuss any reasonable adjustments to your application, in order that we can accommodate and support you in the process. You can do this by emailing TTRecruitment@ttelectronics.com

If you want to work for a company where who you are is valued and respected, we’d love to hear from you.

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TT Electronics does not accept any unsolicited CVs from third parties. Any CVs submitted by a third party for this or any other position will not be subject to any recruitment fees if hired.