Manufacturing Engineer - Metallising & Brazed Assembly

Location: Rugby, UKDepartment: Metallising & Brazed Assembly

Play a key role in shaping the future of advanced manufacturing at Morgan.We’re recruiting for a Manufacturing Engineer to join our Metallising & Brazed Assembly team in Rugby. This role is central to our current transformation—relocating manufacturing operations from our site in Germany to Rugby to increase capability and support future growth.

You’ll work closely with production, engineering, and commercial teams to improve processes, enhance quality, and reduce lead times and cost. Whether supporting day-to-day production issues, leading improvement projects, or developing new routings and methods, this role is ideal for someone who thrives in a hands-on, fast-evolving manufacturing environment.

• Provide technical support to production teams, addressing issues affecting output or quality

• Improve manufacturing efficiency through process optimisation and problem solving

• Support the transition and localisation of processes from Germany to Rugby

• Write routings and standard times based on best practice and real production data

• Deliver accurate cost estimates and support CapEx initiatives

• Collaborate with commercial teams on customer enquiries and product feasibility

• Maintain accurate documentation (BOMs, SOPs, work instructions, engineering data)

• Promote Lean and continuous improvement across the operation

• Proven experience in a manufacturing engineering role

• HNC or above in a relevant engineering or technical discipline

• Strong problem-solving skills and a continuous improvement mindset

• Experience with cost control, project delivery, and working cross-functionally

Desirable:

• Knowledge of batch manufacturing, ceramics, or brazing technology

• Experience with Lean/Six Sigma tools and methods

• Exposure to NPI or manufacturing transfers

At Morgan Advanced Materials, you’ll be part of a company with a long history of innovation and a clear focus on the future. You’ll be joining a team that’s growing, evolving, and making a real impact on how we manufacture some of the most advanced materials in the world.

Morgan Advanced Materials is a business rich in history and innovation. Founded in the UK in 1856, we have grown into a global organisation with 70 sites in 18 countries. Our model to serve our customers where they need us has led to a diversified product range using our unparalleled expertise in ceramic and carbon materials, which we exploit to solve difficult problems for our customers across a diverse range of markets.

We are a purpose driven organisation. Our purpose is to use advanced materials to make the world more sustainable and to improve the quality of life. We deliver on that purpose through the products that we make, and the way that we make them.

The Technical Ceramics business of Morgan Advanced Materials engineers high performance functional and structural ceramic materials, components and sub-assemblies to address customer-specific technical challenges.

Key Figures: Revenue £1,100.7m (2024), ~8,000 employees, manufacturing in 20+ countries, and a global customer portfolio. A UK PLC with head office located in Windsor, Berkshire UK.  Listed on London Stock Exchange; Member of the FTSE 250 Index.

Morgan Advanced Materials is an EEO/AA/M/W/D/V Employer Ind-1