Design Engineer (987)
Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
EV & Battery » Design & CAD
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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
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Skills & Characteristics
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.
- 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.