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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

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