About the Role
As a Manufacturing Engineer with H&B Defence, you will play a pivotal role in strengthening supplier capability, ensuring compliance, and embedding technical excellence across our programs. You will lead and support onboarding audits, conduct supplier assessments, and guide the development of corrective actions that uplift manufacturing maturity and ensure suppliers meet contractual and technical requirements. You will be responsible for planning and executing independent assurance activities, maintaining accurate audit records, and contributing to program reviews with clear, evidence‑based engineering insight. Your work will directly influence procurement decisions, operational planning and the integration of technical requirements across the supply chain.
You will conduct complex investigations, apply engineering judgement to resolve issues, and produce high‑quality technical documentation that supports through‑life knowledge capture. You will lead discussions with internal and external customers, provide expert advice across your discipline, and contribute to the development of business artefacts that support successful bids. You will help shape engineering processes, drive continuous improvement, and champion standardised manufacturing and supplier due‑diligence practices. As a leader, you will guide and mentor engineering practitioners, support succession planning, and foster a culture of clear communication, capability development and operational excellence. You will also contribute to trade control compliance, ensuring best‑practice behaviours are embedded across relevant activities. In every aspect of the role, you will uphold H&B Defence’s values—acting with integrity, respect and accountability, prioritising safety, striving for excellence, and supporting your colleagues as part of a mission‑focused team.
