Job Title: Senior Manufacturing EngineerLocation: Huddersfield 4 days per week (4 day week available)Role Type: PermanentSalary: 50,000 - 60,000 + benefits Our client, an established engineering consultancy, require an experienced Senior Manufacturing Engineer to join their multi-disciplined team working complex aerospace and defence systems. Candidates would need to hold British nationality and have lived and worked in the UK for 5+ years and be eligible for SC security clearance. What the role of the Senior Manufacturing Engineer entails:To provide technical guidance and problem-solving skills to the manufacturing and assembly teams to help ensure the build quality and relevant standards are achieved and attained in line with the overall programme scheduleTo be the communication line between manufacturing/assembly and engineering ensuring clear and accurate direction is given to the relevant teamsTo be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for gear profile generation (hobbing, shaping, and profile grinding) and finish grinding (journals and cones/ thrust faces), liaising between the Design Engineering team and the machine tool operators. To provide guidance of manufacturability of components and capability of the machine tools to ensure a right first time approach is achievable and to support the design projects in design reviews, providing clear inputTo lead PFMEAs; incl. process mapping, risk mitigation and creation/ approval of procedures and protocolsLead make-versus-buy ..... full job details .....