13 Manufacturing jobs in Oswestry

• Produce efficient & effective manufacturing solutions for products
• Produce, control, and standardise all manufacturing instructions to produce conforming products efficiently
• Ensure machine capability with regards to manufacturing solutions
• Ensure correct tooling, equipment & fixtures with regards to the manufacturing solution and manufacturing instructions
• Manage projects & deliver required manufacturing solution capability
• Continuous improvement of solutions, manufacturing instructions, quality - NCR's, health & safety, and efficiency - including understanding of best practise, new practise, and innovations.

• Experience of successfully working within an engineering focused environment which incorporated elements of:
• Experience in the following manufacturing processes: Fabrications, Assembly, Casting, Machining (not specifically only CNC)
• Ability to build good working relationships with key stakeholders at all levels of the business
• Competent with the use of MS Office
• Able to train others in continuous improvement and root cause techniques
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of ISO9001 Quality system
• Reading and interpreting engineering drawings
• Proven experience in leading projects
• Proven experience in leading lean and route cause analysis projects/training

• HNC/HND in an engineering discipline

Carbon60 is looking for a Manufacturing Engineer to join a client of ours based in Broughton. Our client is a leading aircraft manufacturing company who have an exciting opportunity has arisen to join the A350 Manufacturing Engineering team at Broughton. As a member of the lineside support team, you will be supporting the fast-paced production line, you will lead continuous improvement initiatives, problem solve and support cycle time & efficiency projects.

This is a contract position lasting until October 2026 offering both PAYE and Umbrella rates. Working hours are Double Day Shift Pattern (20% uplift on rate)

• Alternating weeks of morning and afternoon Monday to Friday
• Mornings - 6:00am - 1:10pm
• Afternoons - 1:30pm - 8:40pm

The main mission:

• Identify, analyse & solve recurrent technical issues not directly manageable by the operators & FLM (First Line Manager).
• Provide a view at shop floor level within the production team.
• Accompany to production team.
• Achieve optimum of effort and work results through planning, production control and management of products and the design of processes.
• Achieve the expected Industrial Excellence targets within area by ensuring adherence and continuous improvement of operational process.

The main activities:

• Daily / on shift line side support to manage technical issues & continuous improvement: missing parts, non-conformities, concessions if applicable, outstanding work, maintenance, jigs & tools.
• Perform work order management for out of cycle work.
• Escalate recurrent issues & request support to the Work Prep, Maintenance, MAP & Outstanding Work support functions roles, if not manageable at level1.
• Support capacity management: anticipate capacity fluctuation to cover changes in the PLC (product life cycle situation) and grow competence.
  

Requirements:

• Desirable NVQ L4 / HNC or equivalent
• Background in Manufacturing Engineering
• Previous experience in a technical role using CATIA & SAP would be an advantage
• Basic level of understanding the Aircraft build philosophy

If you are interested in this position and would like to know more, please contact Carbon60 Fareham.

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Manufacturing Engineer
Competitive Salary + Company Benefits Package
Chester, Cheshire (Commutable from: Ellesmere Port, Deeside, Mold, Wrexham, Runcorn)

Are you a Manufacturing Engineer looking to lead end-to-end projects that optimise production, improve quality, and drive innovation in a well-established, forward-thinking environment?

This is an excellent chance to join a UK industry leader, working as part of a multi-departmental team, where you will take ownership of continuous improvement initiatives, including lean manufacturing, capital projects, and the introduction of brand-new processes.

In this varied and hands-on role, you'll be responsible for leading manufacturing projects from concept through to commissioning. Tasked with improving workflow, quality, and safety across the site, you will be actively involved in solving complex production issues and analysing NCR data.

The company is investing in its people and facilities, offering a supportive environment for you to make genuine improvements - this is a great opportunity for someone looking to make a real impact.

This role would suit a Manufacturing Engineer who has experience working to ISO 9001 standards and driving CI/lean initiatives.

The Role:

• Lead manufacturing and capital improvement projects from concept to commissioning
• Conduct root cause analysis and lead corrective actions for NCRs and quality issues
• Support lean manufacturing practices including 5S, TPM, and PFMEAs

The Person:

• Manufacturing Engineer, HNC/HND qualified or equivalent in an engineering discipline
• Strong understanding of ISO 9001, root cause analysis, and lean manufacturing
• Able to lead end-to-end projects with a multi-departmental team

Please click "Apply Now" or contact Ben Dunsford at Rise Technical Recruitment.

Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd acts an employment agency for permanent roles and an employment business for temporary roles.
The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications and skill set. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.
Reference Number: BBBH(phone number removed)

• Annual Salary: 35,000-50,000
• Location: Chester, Cheshire, U.K.
• Job Type: Full-time

We are excited to be recruiting for an exciting opportunity for a Mechanical Design and Manufacturing Engineer to join a global business in Chester. This role is crucial for the design, development, and continuous improvement of mechanical components and manufacturing processes within the lifting equipment industry, focusing on safety, quality, and performance.

Day-to-day of the role:

• Design mechanical components and develop complete assemblies using SolidWorks.
• Create and maintain detailed engineering drawings and technical documentation.
• Support the prototyping, testing, and validation phases of new product development.
• Ensure all designs comply with relevant industry standards and regulatory requirements.
• Manage materials and Bills of Materials (BOMs) within SAP, including scheduling, usage tracking, cost control, and inventory oversight.
• Continuously improve manufacturing processes focusing on safety, quality, cost-effectiveness, and operational efficiency.
• Diagnose and resolve design and production issues, implementing corrective actions as needed.
• Serve as the primary contact for team queries, delivering responsive and customer-friendly support to resolve technical issues effectively.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering (BEng or equivalent minimum).
• Proficiency in SolidWorks or similar CAD design software.
• Experience with SAP and Microsoft 365, particularly Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
• Excellent command of the English language, both written and verbal.
• Strong communication, influencing, and negotiation abilities.
• Flexible and adaptable, with a proactive approach to change.
• Physically fit and comfortable with hands-on, practical work.
• Willingness for occasional UK travel and working outside core business hours.

• Annual Salary: £35,000-£50,000
• Location: Chester, Cheshire, U.K.
• Job Type: Full-time

We are excited to be recruiting for an exciting opportunity for a Mechanical Design and Manufacturing Engineer to join a global business in Chester. This role is crucial for the design, development, and continuous improvement of mechanical components and manufacturing processes within the lifting equipment industry, .

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Location: Broughton (Onsite)
Pay: 31.90 per hour (Umbrella) / 23.84 per hour (PAYE)
Hours: 35 hours per week
Contract: Until 20/10/2026 (Likely to be extended)
IR35: Off-payroll working rules apply

A great opportunity has arisen to join the Quality Team at Broughton as a Quality Line Side IPQ Assessor. You will play a key role in ensuring industrial processes meet the highest standards, supporting both compliance and continuous improvement within a factory environment.

• Perform industrial qualifications to enable internal shops to carry out industrial processes.
• Conduct validation of couple and IQ reports.
• Collect evidence to evaluate compliance or non-compliance to process.
• Support impact analysis and recovery actions when non-compliance occurs.
• Propose IQ status and inform validators.
• Contribute to investigations and root cause analysis for quality issues.
• Participate in process improvements and analyse process capability results.
• Ensure customer focus and product safety at all times.

• Experience in industrial processes and factory environments.
• Audit quality background is essential.
• Strong teamwork, proactivity, adaptability, and customer focus.
• Experience is valued over formal qualifications.

• Security clearance (BPSS+) required.
• Paid overtime available (premium rates).
• One-stage interview process.

Apply now

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Do you have experience within a Manufacturing or Industrial environment? Are you looking for an opportunity to develop existing skills and learn new ones? Are you based in or around Shotton?

This role is ideal for someone with labouring and/or manual handling experience due to the physically demanding nature of the role. The successful applicant will be someone who can work at pace comfortably and considers themselves to be reliable, a team player and proactive.

Role: Manufacturing Team Member

(Steel Processing, Profiles and/or Composites department)

Location: TATA Steel, Shotton Works, Shotton Records Centre, Deeside CH5 2NH

Pay:

Composites department offers from 12.74ph and the potential for overtime (19.11ph)

Profiles & Steel Processing departments offer 14.01ph and the potential for overtime (21.02ph)

Contract length: 6 months initially with the view to extend or offer a permanent contract

Shift Patterns:

Steel Processing department is an alternating shift pattern, 37.5 hours a week.

Week 1 : Mon-Fri 06:00-14:00, Week 2: Mon-Thurs 14:00-00:00

Composites department operates two different patterns Tue-Fri 07:00-17:00 (30 min early finish on a Fri) and an alternating shift pattern 37.5 hours per week.

Week 1: Mon - Thurs 06:00-16:00, Week 2 Mon - Thurs 16:00-02:00

Profiles department is an alternating shift pattern, 37.5 hours per week.

Week 1: Mon - Thu (Apply online only), Week 2: Tue - Fri (Apply online only)

Start: ASAP but pending completion of medical assessment which includes a drug and alcohol test

Responsibilities:

• Working within the profiles remit, supporting the team with manual handling duties
• Unloading and loading steel
• Following instructions from management in relation to the moving and handling of steel
• Maintaining a strong ethos of UK Health and Safety legislation at all times Operating processing machine and material handling equipment
• Clearing areas within the department
• Ensuring a clean and safe working area for all
• Being actively involved in improvement initiatives, own personal development and contributing to the teams performance
• Adhering to the plants procedures and PPE instructions at all time

Essential requirements:

• Driving licence and access to own vehicle
• Previous experience within a role that required manual handling
• Experience within a construction, manufacturing or heavy industrial environment
• Ability to be on your feet for the majority of the day
• Ability to conduct manual handling, regular bending and lifting so as not to cause strain
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to adhere to both of the shift patterns
• Flexibility towards overtime
• Strong knowledge of UK Health and Safety legislation

Benefits:

• Advice and editing on your current CV
• Dedicated team throughout your journey within the role
• Paid holiday
• Exclusive online services including restaurant and retail discounts
• Chance to receive 300* for referring a friend
• Opportunity for progression into permanent roles
• Competitive rates of pay

All applicants are subject to checks including but not limited to: Right to work check, Medical assessment, Drug and Alcohol Test and reference checks.

Randstad Business Support is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Customer Services Administrator (Manufacturing)

24,500

Monday to Friday 8-4 or 9-5

Deeside

Permanent

Due to incredible business growth we are EXCLUSIVELY recruiting for a Customer Services Administrator to join our hugely successful client in supporting their Production & Supply Chain Team to help deliver seamless administration support for their Customers.

They have a hugely exciting future with plans to grow their business dramatically over the next 12 months which will have a fantastic impact on the development and internal promotion of their employees as well as additional recruitment.

This is a very busy and varied role, if you thrive working at speed where no one day is the same. this is the role for you!

Your New Role

* Communicate with Customer Service, Warehousing, Manufacturing, QA and logistics daily, regarding identified concerns with material/component availability, constraints, customer demands, priority changes, and deviations that impact the attainment of the production schedule

* Ensure timely execution of all MRP transactions to facilitate proper product movement through the supply chain

* Post completed production orders and problem solve where issues arise

* Attend the daily production meeting

* Familiarity with ERP/MRP systems

* Assist with scheduling production activity in synch with MPS

Your Skills, Knowledge and Experience

* A confident production administrator with excellent MRP skills

* Good level of numeracy and literacy

* Strong organisational skills

* Effective communication skills

* Ability to meet targets and remain calm under pressure with a busy work environment.

Contractual Benefits

- 24,500 + Ongoing Career Development

- Monday- Friday office hours

- 25 days holiday + bank holidays

- AE pension

To Apply

Please click on the link to apply.

Thanks

Kelly

Kelly Newell

Manufacturing

Avid Personnel

Head of Materials (Manufacturing) role based in Wrexham. Working for a well established industrial manufacturing company.

Client Details

Our client is a well established, growing industrial manufacturing company.

Description

The successful candidate will assume responsibility to create and implement purchasing, supply chain and material control strategies to build a professional and effective commercially focused function. Using best practice principles, they will ensure that both commodity and service purchasing achieves quality, cost and delivery targets in line with sales and operational planning expectations. The role will provide a real opportunity to drive change and increase profitability.

Take end-to-end supply chain responsibility ensuring the organisation is supported by a robust and contractually compliant supply base. This will including driving initiatives such as vendor managed inventory, effective Supplier Management processes, and cost down programs with the complete sponsorship of the other business functions at all levels.

Operate as lead negotiator for the organisation across UK, European, and Global supply markets. This will include optimising current pricing structures for parts, and driving for value add material control benefits (JIT, LEAN, KANBAN). This will apply to all organisational spend.

With the inclusion of operations, sales, and design evaluate current product lines and introduce cost reduction initiatives.

Propose and implement inventory policies to ensure the required balance between sales/stock value.

Integrate the purchasing and materials management team into the business ensuring effective cross functional relationships are in place.

Provide clear direction representing the purchasing and materials function at senior management level contributing and driving wider business strategy in line with core business objectives.

Monitor and control goods receipt, Quality, Returns and Supplier Rejects to ensure clearance within agreed timescales.

Monitor and control any variances to standard purchase pricing.

Generation, maintenance and issue of standard operating procedures to cover all aspects of the Purchasing and Materials functions.

Develop team capability, highlighting need for additional training and succession planning to future proof the structure

Profile

Proven operator as a change agent, with the ability to demonstrate business transformation from a Supply Chain perspective. You will have provided significant input to overall business strategy and directly contributed to increased profitability.

Proven track record in a global Purchasing and Materials lean manufacturing environment with responsibility for the procurement and supply chain of a wide range of engineering materials - strong negotiation skills.

Effective management of a team of Buyers and Materials specialist providing developmental support, and improving functional efficiency.

Proficient in the use and implementation of MRP systems.

Customer focused, hands on approach, self-motivated, persistent

Degree calibre - industrial / manufacturing environment, or equivalent experience

Membership of CIPS (or working towards)

Formal training in the following areas:-

- Negotiation of commercial contracts - Value engineering - Supply chain management techniques - Forecasting Techniques

Job Offer

70,000 to 90,000 plus benefits and package, dependent on candidate experience.