Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Twickenham

2 days ago

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Cure Talent is delighted to be partnering with an innovative medical device company based in southwest London, as they appoint their first dedicated Senior Manufacturing Engineer.
The business designs and manufactures a clinically approved medical device used in the treatment of wound and surgical site infections. With strong commercial momentum and international expansion underway, they are now entering an important phase of scaling their manufacturing capability.
This is not a steady state factory role. This is a hands-on build and scale opportunity within a growing MedTech business.
The opportunity
Manufacturing is currently led by the engineering team, with production delivered through a manual assembly process. The business is now creating a dedicated manufacturing space and is looking for someone to take ownership of formalising and developing this function.
You will play a key role in structuring manufacturing operations, improving production control, enhancing process robustness, and supporting increased output as demand grows. Over time, you will build and lead a small manufacturing team and help shape the long term manufacturing strategy.
Key responsibilities

Establish and develop a dedicated manufacturing area
Define and optimise assembly processes, documentation and production controls
Introduce structured planning, scheduling and inventory management
Ensure ISO 13485 compliant manufacturing processes in collaboration with QMS and engineering
Support the recruitment and development of a small manufacturing team
About you
Degree qualified in engineering, ideally electronic/electrical or manufacturing
Experience within a regulated manufacturing environment, ideally medical devices
Background in low volume, high value production environments
Comfortable operating in hands on settings and building processes from the ground up
Ambition to grow into or further develop within a manufacturing leadership role
Package and working pattern
Competitive salary plus biannual performance bonus
4 day working week with flexible start and finish times
Private pension and private health insurance
Clear progression to leadership role longer term
If you are a Senior Manufacturing Engineer who enjoys building capability, driving improvement and scaling production within a growing MedTech business, we would love to hear from you

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