Product Development Engineer

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COMPANY DESCRIPTION, PROFILE AND SCOPE OF ROLE

Our client is a world class, global, award winning, established and growing manufacturing business, with strong and sustained investment in people, capital and plant.

Working onsite, and with experience gained in a similar role, the successful candidate will be creative, motivated and dynamic. Working as part of an established and highly professional team within a fast-paced environment, you will be responsible for developing suitable technical solutions from initial brief, through product design specification, design and development, test and validation with the focus on suitable and sustainable manufacturing.

KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Producing new and creative product/material/application ideas, approaches, insights, and designs, which profitable, innovative, and anticipate customer needs

  • Preparing and reviewing FMEA and PPAP plans to ensure the Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP2) requirements are met and timelines are achieved

  • Conducting feasibility studies with appropriate tools e.g. FEA and recommending design or material improvements

  • Selecting appropriate manufacturing methods for new products/materials to ensure the start of series production (SOP) meeting both customer and company objectives; provides in-life technical support and management of any product reliability and quality queries.

  • Using analysis to identify and implement engineering methodologies that meet design intent and product performance expectations

  • Inputting and analysing numerical data. identifying patterns and relationships to identify and implement engineering methodologies that meet design intent and product performance expectations

  • Due to the nature of the business and here will be a need to travel overseas on occasion as per the needs of the business.

    QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES

  • Preferably BEng qualified within mechanical engineering, OR Industrial design / Materials Science (with hands on product development / design experience.

  • Product design experience (Product design involving plastic/rubber/composites and compression, injection or injection transfer moulding experience would be advantageous)

  • Experience of working in cross-discipline teams

  • Experience of working within a high-volume manufacturing environment, ideally automotive

  • Advantageous to be experienced in prototype/product testing and benchmarking, project and budgetary management, IP, contract review, product liability/warranty processes, and VA/VE, Lean, and Kaizen tools.

  • Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to persuade, influence and, when appropriate, challenge with tact and diplomacy

    Details of Package:

    Salary £44,000 to £49,000PA + Competitive Benefits inc. Generous paid holidays, and Flexible working. Dayshift / Site Based with some flexible working around daily core hours

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