Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Onsite in Cheltenham Salary up to £46K (subject to skills and experience) + fantastic benefits including company bonuses, healthcare plan and generous pension scheme. Designing award-winning products for our market-leading brands – Mira Showers, Rada and Recoup - is our lifeblood. We focus on investment; investing in the best technology and resources available and investing in each and every individual. Whether you arrive at our facilities in Cheltenham, Worcester or Hull, have a visit from a Service Engineer or pick up the phone to our Customer Service team, you’ll instantly see that, no matter our department or location, we all share the same cultural values at Kohler Mira. From day one you’re part of the Kohler Mira community – a collaborative, forward focused team with a shared pride in our work and commitment to delight our customers, develop innovative products and services and inspire our people. We are looking for a senior manufacturing engineer to support delivery of our operations strategy by championing a safe working environment, improving product quality, ensuring on‑time delivery, and supporting cost‑reduction goal. Find out more below! About the Role You’ll play a key role in strengthening safety, quality, delivery and cost performance at our Cheltenham site. You work closely with production and cross‑functional teams, managing your time effectively while maintaining high standards. You take ownership of problem solving, use data to drive improvements, and ensure robust process controls and ISO9001‑compliant documentation. You help develop others through coaching, and you actively support our zero‑injury ambition by identifying hazards and implementing controls. You collaborate across the business to drive improvements, support capital projects, and lead the introduction of new products, processes, automation and equipment—delivered on time, on budget and to the highest standards. Responsibilities will include: • Continuous improvement of assembly test processes, including partial or full automation. • Improve sustain productivity in manufacturing cells. • Identify conditions that contribute to performance gaps or variances; explores relationships between conditions and effects; use facts and data to distinguish causes from symptoms and determine root causes; identify solutions to root causes and lead implementation of countermeasures. • Application of lean manufacturing, PFMEA, Six Sigma and other engineering tools. • Comply with and implement best practice systems, procedures manufacturing documentation. • Perform time study, standard work, takt time analysis, and line balancing. • Analyse and propose detailed capital expenditure requirements. • Ensure manufacturing cells comply with health, safety and environmental requirements.