Manufacturing Engineering Manager - Microelectronics

Company Overview

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.

Role Overview 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 KPIs to drive deliverables against key strategic objectives.
• Yield & Stability: Manage daily yield, driving the elimination of 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 a 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.