Production Manufacturing Engineer

This role will include, but is not limited to:

• Lead and support day-to-day manufacturing operations, ensuring efficient workflow, high quality, and adherence to safety standards.

• Supervise or coordinate production activities, including scheduling, materials management, and team task allocation.

• Ensure compliance with Adaptavate’s Health & Safety and Quality Management Plans.

• Maintain accurate records of production data, yields, and performance metrics

• Optimise production processes for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

• Identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives using Lean and Six Sigma methodologies.

• Support the development and implementation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to ensure consistency and repeatability.

• Work with R&D and Technical teams to scale up new processes and product variants from lab to pilot to commercial scale.

• Support maintenance planning and execution for production equipment, ensuring uptime and reliability.

• Conduct fault diagnosis (mechanical, electrical, or controls) and implement corrective and preventive actions.

• Oversee or support calibration, inspection, and housekeeping to ensure a “world-class” workshop environment.

• Act as the “first point of contact” in the workshop between Production, Engineering, and Operations.

• Mentor and support technicians, apprentices, and junior engineers.

• Promote cross-functional collaboration between manufacturing, quality, and product development teams.

• Hold a degree or equivalent experience in Manufacturing, Mechanical or Electrical engineering

• Be experienced in a production or manufacturing environment, eg. construction, food, chemical products

• Demonstrate a proven ability to work with production machinery and automation systems

• Bring hands on experience in fault finding, maintenance and process troubleshooting, ensuring reliable and efficient operations

• Possess excellent organisational and communication skills, enabling effective collaboration across multi-disciplinary teams and clear reporting of technical findings.

You may:

• Have experience with PLC programming, industrial automation and control systems

• Have an understanding of Quality Management Systems and material traceability processes

• Bring experience working in sustainability focussed manufacturing environments or with innovative materials

• Have contributed to process scale up projects, supporting the transition from pilot to commercial production

• Be working towards professional accreditation or further technical qualifications.

To apply for this position, please send us a cover letter with your CV, outlining why you’re interested in this role and your relevant experience.

In this role as our next Adaptavator, you will grow and develop your key career skills. This will be developed through a blend of personal mentorship and applied learning.

The impact of our business is realised by the cohesion and growth of our team members. We aim to create a collaborative, supportive, fun and respectful working environment that enables you to thrive. Collectively, we can lead the carbon change in construction for a better future! 

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger and our days more rewarding. As an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our principles by ensuring that our place can be anyone’s place.

If this sounds like your next job, then please send your CV with a covering letter or email as to why you want the position to jobs@adaptavate.com. 

At Adaptavate, we are fighting climate change with carbon change, and we firmly believe that our work is pivotal to achieve net zero by 2050. The endeavour is ambitious, but we are up for the challenge! Are you?

We look forward to hearing from you.