Production Engineer

Based out of our Military Vehicle Centre of Excellence (MILVEHCOE), the RDA Operations Support team consists of experienced and dedicated engineers, planners and project managers who provide specialised support to our Production teams across our assembly lines. Reporting into the Director Material, Planning and Logistics, our production engineers work collaboratively with a number of cross functional teams to ensure the efficiency of our production processes.

About the Role

As a Production Engineer with Rheinmetall Defence Australia, you will be responsible for defining and documenting production processes and activities for your allocated area of production (i.e. Turret Assembly, Welding, etc.). The successful candidate could expect some of their tasking to include:

Collaborate with Configuration Management team to develop and maintain accurate production Bill of Materials (BoM) that defines the assembly and materials delivery sequence;

Defining, developing and documenting of all production processes and activities whilst utilising various lean manufacturing techniques;

Collaborate with Leading Hands and other assembly employees to determine most efficient and effective manufacturing methodologies;

Ensure SAP (MRP system) is current with the correct BoM, routings and material allocations to drive demand and support production;

Interface with the Quality team to ensure the relevant quality checks and procedures are built in to the production sequences; and

Interrogate engineering data via Teamcenter to support questions around material specifications and production sequences.