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Design & Development Engineer

Baltic Recruitment
Newton Aycliffe, United Kingdom
Last week
£45,000 pa

Salary

£45,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
On-site
Seniority
Mid
Education
Degree
Posted
20 May 2026 (Last week)

Benefits

Salary Sacrifice pension to 7% EAP Life Assurance x 4
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Baltic Recruitment are delighted to be supporting an established, market-leading manufacturing business with their search for a Design & Development Engineer. This is an excellent opportunity for an innovative and driven engineering professional to play a key role in the design, development, and improvement of products within a highly respected organisation.

Key Duties:

  • Design solutions for new products development within the given framework of all on site development.
  • Provide expert assistance on thermoplastic extrusion. This includes promoting the technology and performing specific project responsibilities.
  • Lead trials, mainly in extrusion, in support of customers and internal development works, creating prototypes, analyzing test data and document results in test reports.
  • Foster strong collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure integration of innovation initiatives and product development process.
  • Act as project leader on new product development collaborating with cross-functional teams and following new product development from concept to production release.
  • Staying up to date with advancements in material technology and industry trends and incorporating new technologies into the production process as appropriate. With the material choice proposed, able to meet our environmental, mechanical and performance requirements.
  • Organize project meetings, define project deliverables, monitor timelines and resources whilst reporting and challenging deviations.
  • To validate new designs, processes, and materials through testing, experimentation, and evaluation.
  • Define product functional analysis (based on standards) to translate customer specifications and internal requirements into clear product performance criteria.
  • Produce written reports and make presentations to the internal team and customers.

Key Requirements:

  • Bachelor's or master's degree or equivalent in polymer engineering, materials science, or a related field.
  • Strong understanding of polymer science and technology, with a focus on thermoplastic elastomers extrusion processes.
  • Strong design and prototyping skills, including experience with computer-aided design (CAD) software.
  • Ability to support multiple projects to achieve desired.
  • Project Management, capacity to follow the innovative projects and new projects development.

The Package:

  • £45,000.00 per annum.
  • Dayshift - 40 hrs / week.
  • Salary Sacrifice pension to 7%.
  • EAP.
  • Life Assurance x 4.

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