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Description

You will play a central role in ensuring our customers projects are designed to exacting standards and are delivered on time, within budget.
In this team environment you will be innovative in your approach and able to work confidently through the development life cycle (design, build, test and deliver) to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction.
Please ensure you are:

•Degree, HNC or approved apprenticeship qualified
•Competent user of 2D and 3D CAD, preferably Inventor.
•Minimum 2 years experience, developing custom automation or special purpose machinery
•The ability to demonstrate a creative flair and a good understanding of materials, motion control, sensors and drives, structures and dynamics.
•Experience in the pharmaceutical and/or medical device markets would be beneficial.
•A high level of IT literacy, good written and confident communications skills and a strong desire to succeed are essential.

You will enter a demanding environment, where genuine design and development skills, leading to customer solutions are highly valued.

Job Title
Design and Development Engineer

Job Purpose
Interpret the needs of the customers, both external and internal, and provide solutions within challenging timescales and budgets.

Responsible to
Development Team Manager

Direct Reports
None

Qualifications Experience
Good engineering qualifications; Degree, HNC or approved apprenticeship and a competent user of 3D CAD, together with 2+ years experience developing custom automation or special purpose machinery. A good understanding of materials, motion control, sensors and drives, structures and dynamics and how these can be used in equipment design. A high level of IT literacy and good written and confident communications skills.

Job Role
Ensure that all design and development work is carried out to a high level of quality, within given budgets and on time.
Operate within a team environment, supporting other members of the team.
Confidently work through development life cycle (design, build, test and deliver) to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction by completely owning the problem.


Personal Qualities
A creative thinker and natural problem solver
A Can Do attitude
A drive to succeed and able to work under own initiative
A completer finisher
Attention to detail
Adaptive
Personable, professional and customer friendly with good technical communication skills

Key Duties

•Interpret user requirement specifications to produce functional design specifications within budget
•Generate ideas and be able to support these ideas technically, arguing their merit at team, management and customer level
•Liase with engineers from other disciplines, e.g. Controls to ensure a complete solution is achieved
•Use 3D and 2D CAD design tools to produce individual drawings and drawing packs, on time, for use in the procurement of parts and assembly of machines
•Produce drawings to BS8888 and other Company quality standards.
•Undertake mechanical calculations to substantiate and prove design concepts and drawings
•Select likely suppliers and justify their selection against price, delivery and quality criteria
•Produce cost estimates for parts and assemblies
•Produce bills of materials for use in procuring parts and purchase parts as necessary within Company guidelines
•Produce project time plans
•Produce project documentation and maintain a technical project file
•Communicate with both external and internal customers to ensure design solutions are understood
•Implement, as necessary, design solutions through build, integrating and testing
•Work within and understand the Quality Management System in accordance with ISO9001 2000 TickIT. Contribute towards its improvement
•Work within all other Company systems and protocols.