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Manufacturing engineer (degree) (level 6)

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Helping take products from design to manufacture, ensuring that they are launched on time, at cost and to the right quality.

Knowledge, skills and behaviours
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Knowledge

  • Safety and security legislation, regulations and standards associated with the manufacturing engineering environment. Cyber security and statutory safety standards.
  • Hazards, risks and safe systems of work in a manufacturing engineering environment.
  • Principles and applications of mechanics in a manufacturing environment: motion, energy and force to ensure that systems and components function safely, efficiently and reliably.
  • Factors that determine material, resource, equipment and component selection. For example, quality, efficiency, performance, workforce and layout.
  • Verbal communication techniques. Giving and receiving information. Matching style to audience. Barriers in communication and ways to overcome them.
  • Principles of mathematics and scientific methods including analytical techniques. Evaluating statistical data, complex numbers and matrices required in a manufacturing environment.
  • Principles of electrical, electronic systems, components, schematic and circuit diagrams, control and digital engineering relevant to manufacturing environments.
  • Data collection, storage, and presentation techniques.
  • Project commercials: delays, changes and impacts.
  • Techniques used for improving and enhancing manufactured products, commodities, systems or components: safety, reliability, quality, performance and sustainability.
  • Problem solving tools and techniques for establishing performance characteristics, for example: Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve and Control (DMAIC), Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA), Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA), Fishbone diagrams.
  • Workplace training and development techniques: personal and professional development. Coaching and transfer of knowledge.
  • Processes and procedures used to optimise safety, efficiency, performance, productivity and sustainability.
  • Quality management and assurance processes.
  • Management of change (MOC) processes: requesting change, determining viability, planning, implementing and evaluating changes to a product, system or component. Use of data to support change. Adherence to MOC, risks and limitations of MOC approval.
  • Principles of Computer Aided Design (CAD) and the application in a manufacturing environment.
  • Principles and applications of simulation software in a manufacturing environment.
  • Project management techniques for project delivery: planning, cost and budget control, risk, and quality.
  • Current and emerging technology in a manufacturing environment: mechanical and electrical integration, digitalisation, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, manufacturing systems, robotics, 3D printing, awareness of cloud computing and cyber security.
  • Maintenance management strategies of plant machinery, systems and equipment. For example, planned and preventative maintenance.
  • Collaboration working methods with stakeholders: best practice, quality and performance measures, issue resolution.
  • Manufacturing processes and technologies, for example small or batch manufacturing, machining, casting, molding, automation, continuous flow, and high and low volume manufacturing.
  • Teamwork and leadership: negotiation techniques, conflict management and development techniques.
  • Written communication techniques. Plain English principles. Manufacturing engineering terminology. Report writing, presentations, data analysis documentation.
  • Equity, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace. Unconscious bias.
  • Environmental and sustainability legislation, regulations and standards associated with the manufacturing engineering environment. Carbon zero, recycling and reusability targets.
  • Project documentation: ownership, company procedures, selection and appropriate use.
  • Pre-operation checks required on plant and equipment.

Skills

  • Translate conceptual ideas or technical requirements into developmental outcomes, operational designs, or specifications for manufacturing projects or programmes of work.
  • Select, use and apply approved problem-solving methods to solve problems and determine solutions or actions.
  • Collate, store, use and present data and supporting documentation.
  • Interpret and produce technical documentation such as schematic and circuit diagrams, engineering drawings or 3D CAD models, simulation models, engineering reports, test reports, fault reports or data analytics.
  • Observe, record and draw accurate and auditable conclusions from data evidence.
  • Manage assigned projects or programmes of work, taking into account factors such as planning, safety, quality, cost, performance and sustainability.
  • Apply processes for project or programme management such as escalation, audit or risk management and risk mitigation.
  • Comply with statutory and organisational safety and security standards and requirements, supporting safety risk assessments and mitigate any risks identified within the design, manufacture, development or test activity.
  • Identify and use manufacturing processes, resources and technologies to turn the materials, components or other commodities into a finished product or system.
  • Apply quality management and assurance processes to identify and rectify faults, inaccuracies, discrepancies or unexpected results during the manufacturing engineering process.
  • Carry out pre operations checks of engineering manufacturing systems and equipment before use.
  • Manage continuous improvement activities using techniques such as Six Sigma, 5s, Kaizen, Lean, Kanban, Statistical Process Control or Value Stream Mapping.
  • Create, maintain and review project documentation. Record and action any non-conformities.
  • Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
  • Communicate in writing for example technical reports, documents and presentations.
  • Collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders. Manage differing and competing interests with stakeholders.
  • Identify and complete opportunities for personal and professional development including keeping up to date with current and emerging technology.
  • Apply and promote policies and practices to support equity, diversity and inclusion.
  • Consider management of change (MOC) requirements when undertaking manufacturing projects or programmes of work.
  • Comply with environmental and sustainability legislation, regulations and standards associated with the manufacturing engineering environment. Uses resources efficiently, for example waste minimisation.
  • Ensure equipment is managed and maintained.
  • Optimise processes and procedures, such as relating to safety, efficiency, performance, productivity and sustainability.
  • Ensure that all systems or equipment has been correctly configured, checked and tested for safe operation, efficiency and reliability.

Behaviours

  • Promotes a healthy and safe working environment.
  • Take responsibility for the compliance and quality of work in their area and enable others to meet these standards.
  • Agile and resilient in dealing with new and changing situations.
  • Supportive of the needs and concerns of others, especially where this relates to diversity and inclusion.
  • Committed to maintaining and enhancing competence of self and others through Continued Professional Development (CPD).
  • Acts in an ethical and professional manner.
  • Leads by example and promotes sustainable approaches.
Apprenticeship category (sector)
Engineering and manufacturing
Qualification level
6
Equal to degree
Course duration
42 months
Funding
£27,000
Maximum government funding for
apprenticeship training and assessment costs.
Job titles include
  • Current manufacturing engineer
  • Industrial engineer
  • Integrated manufacturing engineer
  • Manufacturing engineer
  • Manufacturing excellence engineer
  • Manufacturing process engineer
  • Manufacturing programmes engineer
  • Process engineer
  • Production engineer

View more information about Manufacturing engineer (degree) (level 6) from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.