Design Engineer

JOB TITLE: Design Engineer

RESPONSIBLE TO: Engineering Manager

LOCATION: Flexible (Warwick HQ, occasional national and international travel)

OBJECTIVE: To execute engineering work at a high level of competence and constantly refine engineering processes and methods.

NATURE OF THE WORK

• New Product Introduction, System Design and Development
  
  
• Design of Production Equipment
  
  
• Working with architectural and engineering drawings
  
  
• Design of experiments and modelling system behaviour
  
  
• Broad experience and understanding of an array of manufacturing techniques
  
  
• Training and developing junior engineers
  
  MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
  
  
• Maintaining consistently high-quality output from the engineering department by leading concept generation and design activities, providing engineering support to all parts of the business.
  
  
• Oversight of major projects & Leading manufacturing processes and technology improvement activities
  
  
• Defining, maintaining, and improving engineering and business processes in line with industry best practice.
  
  
• Launch feasibility studies for new project requests.
  
  
• Provide innovative and robust designs to new projects as well as new products to be mass-manufactured.
  
  
• Apply manufacturing engineering / design for manufacture expertise to creating efficient manufacturing methods and tools for existing and new products.
  
  
• Mentor, support, and train junior engineers.
  
  
• Maintain and improve internal engineering processes.
  
  
• Troubleshooting manufacturing, product performance, and installation issues.
  
  
• Design of experiments to evaluate and characterise component and system performance and behaviour.
  
  
• Ensure project documents are complete, current, and appropriately stored and shared.
  
  
• Identify risks and plan for successful delivery.
  
  
• Advise the Specification team on our delivery capabilities and collaborate with pitching team to win new projects.
  
  PERSON SPECIFICATION
  
  Skills & Characteristics
  
  
• Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful.
  
  
• Exceptional time management and organisation skills with the ability to juggle multiple tasks at once.
  
  
• A good communicator with effective stakeholder management & conflict resolution skills.
  
  
• Be a good team player and an effective leader who motivates colleagues to work together.
  
  
• Meticulous record keeper who ensures everyone delivers on their commitments.
  
  
• Pragmatic problem solver who always gets the job done.
  
  Knowledge & Experience
  
  
• CAD and CAM software, (SolidWorks preferred)
  
  
• Design for Manufacture / Design for Assembly
  
  
• Modern Methods of Manufacture (CNC/CAM, Additive, Laser Processing, Robotics and special purpose machines)
  
  
• Mechanical System Design
  
  
• Leading engineering development activities – FMEA, Concept and Design Reviews, New Product Introduction, Risk Registers etc