Design Engineer

Do you want to make a difference? Imagine progressing your career with a global leader Our Client leads the market in creating innovative, life-changing equipment. Our client works on extraordinary projects, so they need extraordinary people who bring a lot to the work: creativity and practicality, thinkers and doers. In return, you'll get the chance to join a talented, multi-disciplinary team, to be creative, to push the boundaries of design and engineering, and to know you're doing it all to enhance someone's quality of life. Reporting to the Design Manager, the successful candidates will champion great design to produce products that meet all performance and functional criteria.

Main Responsibilities:

Support the Design Manager to:

• Generate project timescales and plans to meet deliverables.
• Ensure design projects are on time and within budget.
• Support prototyping by providing accurate data to the prototyping resources. Manage product testing.
• Manage your time to ensure maximum efficiency, highlight areas of concert as early as possible and where additional resources may be are required.
• Ensure preparedness and attend product/project reviews as required by the Design Manger.
• Support product/project reviews with the Director of R&D as required.
• Ensure all products are thoroughly tested and meet Regulatory requirements.
• Ensure the DHF is correct/complete as regards predesign Freeze tasks/documents.

Product Design:

• Take project scopes and Design Inputs, interoperate them with support from the Design Manager and create a design plan.
• Development products from concept through to Design freeze, both individually, or as a member of a project team using SolidWorks.
• Work with other Designers, Implementation Engineers, departments, test labs, suppliers and contractors to ensure the successful project completion.
• Adhere to design procedures and protocols, keeping electronic files and storing them appropriately EPDM vault (not on your local drive).
• Comply with Health and Safety at Work requirements at all times, ensuring your work area is clean and safe.
• Communicate project briefs to the design team. To ensure projects are researched thoroughly covering user needs, market requirements and technical requirements.
• Carry out concept and idea generation against a project scope/Design input document for presentation to the Design Manager/Director of R&D/project team for selection.
• Progress selected designs to a final design that meets the project requirements.
• Ensure the generation of all technical outputs for Design Freeze.
• Work to the DCP, PDP and VaVe process's.
• Work to the patent process, paying particular attention to ensuring no new development infringes existing patents of others.
• At Design Freeze handover the design documentation to the Implementation Engineer.
• Identify training needs you may have to the Design Manager.

Technical Support:

• To provide technical product support to Product Management and Implementation Engineering.
• As required by the Design Manager, work with local universities to improve product development.
• Be familiar with all Regulatory requirements (CE, CA, FDA, etc).

Essential Criteria:

• At least 5 years experience in a busy Product Design or Engineering Department.
• Experience of designing and managing products from concept through to full production.
• A thorough understanding of manufacturing process including plastics and metal fabrication.
• Strong concepting, visualization and problem solving skills. Highly organized, meticulous planning skills and detail conscious.
• Have a good working knowledge of 3D CAD modelling, preferably SolidWorks.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft OAice products especially Excel, Word, Powerpoint and Outlook.

Desirable criteria:

• Practical use of FMEA / DFMEA techniques
• Experience in designing parts for metal forming and fabrication, injection moulding, aluminium extrusion, high pressure die casting
• Experience in using and maintaining 3D printers
• Use of and validation of design with FEA techniques

Benefits:

• Life Assurance 4 x salary
• 33 days holiday (including Bank Holidays)
• Inclusive collaborative work environment
• Remote working opportunities (dependent on business requirements)
• On-site parking
• Company pension contribution
• Excellent working conditions
• Learning & development opportunities
• Exciting career prospects with an expanding local and global company
• Employee initiatives
• Enhanced maternity pay

Hours of work:

• Monday to Thursday 8:OOam - 4:30pm, Friday 8:OOam to 2:OOpm