Packaging & Design Roles
Design Engineer Full Time
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Overview: Further to ongoing sustained business growth, we are working closely with one of our manufacturing partners to appoint a Design Engineer with experience in 3D CAD to be developed within tooling & product design.
Benefits:
- Travel allowance
- Enhanced sick pay following first year if employment
- Health cash plan enrolment with company contributions
- Life insurance cover
- Income protection insurance cover
- Member of cycle to work and the electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemes
- Access to independent financial advice
- Long service additional holiday entitlement
- 5 hour working week (early finish on Friday)
- Extensive training and development opportunities
Remit:
- Exciting opportunity for an ambitious Design Engineer to work closely with design, production, & commercial delivery departments to provide technical expertise with the company’s product & tooling manufacturing capabilities.
- This role will suit someone early in their design career who enjoys hands on CAD work and aspires to grow in a collaborative, engineering led environment
- The successful Design Engineer candidate will benefit from a fully mapped out training & development plan with clear progression pathway in keeping with the company’s emphasis on developing their staff
Role:
- As Design Engineer you will design and develop in-house products from concept to production
- In the role of Design Engineer, you will be responsible for optimising customer-supplied designs using DFM principles
- Create and maintain 3D CAD models and 2D technical
- Collaborate with tooling, production and quality teams to ensure design feasibility and cost-effectiveness
- Communicate technical recommendations clearly
- Maintain design documentation and drawing office database
- Take part in design reviews and improvement initiatives
Experience Requirements:
- HND/Degree in Product Design, Mechanical Engineering, or similar
- Experience with 3D CAD (SolidWorks preferred; training provided for similar packages)
- Industry or placement experience in design/engineering
- Knowledge of mechanical design and DFM principles
- Strong communication, teamwork, and attention to detail
- Experience and appreciation of injection moulding an advantage
- Understanding of materials and processes for volume manufacturing
- Awareness of CADCAM, prototyping or CNC tooling
