# Composite Manufacturing Engineer

**Company**: TEKEVER
**Location**: Swindon
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Aerospace

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## Description

Join TEKEVER's dynamic team as a Composite Manufacturing Engineer, transforming maritime surveillance and redefining global safety standards.

You will own and develop composite manufacturing processes across the UK production operation, focusing on hand lay-up, pre-preg processing, trimming, finishing, and bonded composite structures.

As a senior technical contributor within the Manufacturing Engineering team, you will work closely with Operations, Design, Quality, and other engineering teams to influence manufacturing decisions, resolve technical issues, and ensure products are designed and built for repeatable production.

**Core Responsibilities**

- Develop, document, and continuously improve composite manufacturing processes from material preparation through to finished components.

- Support hand lay-up and pre-preg manufacturing, including material handling, lay-up, consolidation, and curing processes.

- Develop robust processes for trimming, finishing, drilling, bonding, and composite assembly.

- Work directly with operators and technicians to understand process variation, solve manufacturing problems, and improve repeatability.

- Transfer proven composite manufacturing processes into the UK operation and establish robust, production-ready methods.

- Develop and improve tooling, moulds, jigs, and fixtures used in composite manufacture.

- Provide manufacturing input into product and tooling design, driving Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA).

- Develop clear work instructions, standard work, and process documentation that captures critical process knowledge.

- Lead root-cause investigations into defects, non-conformances, scrap, and rework.

- Identify opportunities to improve quality, cycle time, yield, ergonomics, and cost.

- Support production ramp-up and capacity planning as aircraft demand increases.

- Work closely with Quality to establish appropriate process controls and ensure compliance with applicable aerospace and customer requirements.

- Support engineering changes and ensure manufacturing processes remain aligned with current product configuration.

- Share technical knowledge and help develop the capability of operators, technicians, and the wider Manufacturing Engineering team.

**What we have to offer you:**

At TEKEVER, we offer a comprehensive package designed to reward, support, and develop our people. This includes a highly competitive salary with a discretionary annual bonus and a company pension contribution match of up to 10%. To support your wellbeing, we provide 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays, Private Medical Insurance (with optional family cover), Private Dental care, and an Employee Assistance Programme.

We are deeply committed to investing in future talent; our scale allows us to provide clear career development opportunities and dedicated initiatives to boost your skill sets, ensuring you remain future-ready for the evolving workplace. Furthermore, our team enjoys a flexible hybrid working model, typically three days a week at our core UK sites like Bristol, and access to a bespoke rewards platform featuring a variety of high street discounts and salary sacrifice schemes, including Electric Car, Cycle to Work, and Technology options.

## Skills

### Required
- composite manufacturing
- hand lay-up
- pre-preg processing
- trimming
- finishing
- bonded composite structures
- problem-solving
- continuous improvement

### Nice to have
- aerospace
- UAS
- defence
- motorsport
- composite mould/tool manufacture and development
- NPI
- technology transfer
- production ramp-up

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