# Production Engineer (Audio Electronics Manufacturing)

**Company**: The Focusrite Group
**Location**: High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £40,000 - £50,000 pa
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

We are seeking a Production Engineer to join our team in developing and manufacturing state-of-the-art audio interfaces, MIDI controllers, groove boxes, and synthesizers.

The Production Engineer role involves communicating across all engineering disciplines, handling all Design for Manufacture data, and providing direct engineering support to our external contract manufacturers.

Responsibilities:

- Working as part of a growing Engineering team in close collaboration with the Electronics, Firmware, Mechanical Design, and Quality Assurance teams

- Ensuring high-quality data release to contract manufacturers and sub-contractors

- Creating and maintaining Bills of Materials (BOMs) in our PLM system

- Creating and communicating engineering change orders (ECOs) to factories

- Conducting cost analysis of materials and manufacturing processes

- Investigating new manufacturing processes and quality control methodologies

- Coordinating prototype and pre-production build processes

- Managing relations with UK and overseas component and PCB suppliers

- Submitting new products for regulatory certifications and approvals

Knowledge, Experience & Qualities:

- BEng/BSc degree in a related engineering subject (Electronics, Electrical, Mechanical, Manufacturing Systems)

- Excellent written and verbal communication within a technical context

- Highly proficient with Microsoft Excel, Miro, Word, PowerPoint

- Product cost analysis and reporting

- Growth mindset and self-motivated

- AI Fluency advantageous

- Design for Manufacturing principles (focus on electronics DFM desirable)

- Experience dealing with UK and overseas contract manufacturing and suppliers

- Knowledge of 'component engineering' and part selection for electronics desirable

- Experience with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems desirable

- Industry experience in audio electronics manufacturing desirable

- 8D/SixSigma beneficial

- Lean Manufacturing principles (Kaizan, KPIs, Poka Yoke) beneficial

- Critical thinking and problem-solving skills

- An interest in music, recording, and/or audio is beneficial

Benefits include flexible/hybrid working, company pension, life insurance, private healthcare, Health Cash Plan, enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay, employee purchase scheme, group bonus scheme, company music events, offsite company parties, and free lunch in the canteen.

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## Skills

### Required
- Microsoft Excel
- Miro
- Word
- PowerPoint
- Product cost analysis
- Design for Manufacturing
- Component engineering
- Product Lifecycle Management

### Nice to have
- AI Fluency
- 8D/SixSigma
- Lean Manufacturing

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