Who will you be working with?

Our Birkenhead site supports our customers through maintenance and operation optimisation with customised solutions for spare parts, repair, and overhaul activities on existing trains for brake discs, brake pads, brake blocks, self contained dynamic brake systems.

Role: Methods Engineer

Salary: £Competitive

Location: Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside (CH41 1LF)

Hours: Monday to Thursday 07:30 to 16:00pm and Friday 07:30am to 12:30pm, 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time

How will you make a difference?

The key aim of the role is to optimise the assembly and manufacturing process by studying product and manufacturing methods, designing, and delivering robust process flows and work instructions. Provide cost effective manufacturing processes for new and existing programs. The Methods Engineer is the liaison with the Engineering team.

What will your typical day look like?

• This role will serve as a key link between Operations and the Engineering team.
• Supporting the Operations team in providing cost-effective manufacturing systems for new and existing programs.
• Optimise the assembly and manufacturing process by studying product and manufacturing methods, then designing and implementing improvements.
• Design and install tools, fixtures, test rigs, and jigs to assist the manufacturing process.
• Read, interpret, and evaluate drawings, models, and designs for assembly and manufacture.
• Review new technologies to improve capacity/quality.
• Develop business cases and recommendations for management review.
• Lead improvement projects and give presentations to managers and staff.
• Support Production with the investigation of complex problems, analyse, and recommend corrective solutions or improvements to ensure proper production flow.
• Measure and analyse standard times, recommending and implementing improvements.
• Ensure all equipment purchased and commissioned meets specific and corporate specifications and can function within required tolerances and capacity.

What do we want to know about you?

• HNC/Degree in an Engineering discipline
• Sound knowledge of Health & Safety legislation.
• Production/Methods Engineering experience in production environments.
• Worked within a Lean environment.
• MRP experience, use of problem-solving tools e.g., QRQC, 5Y, Ishikawa, 8D, design of line layouts.
• IT literate and fully conversant with Microsoft applications.
• Presentation skills.

If you don’t have all the above criteria don’t worry, we would still like to hear from you as we live our values always put people first, and strive to expand what is possible.

About Wabtec:

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the company’s new website at:

It’s not just about your career… or your job title…it’s about who you are and the impact you are going to make on the world. Do you want to go into uncharted waters…do things that haven’t been done to make your and someone else's life better? Wabtec has been doing that for decades and we will continue to do so! Through our people, leadership development, services, technology, and scale, Wabtec delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.

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