Senior Design Engineer

Salary: £54,000 – £60,000 per year

Due to expansion Numatic International is currently seeking an experienced Senior Design Engineer to join their Research and Development Team.

You will study, research, design and develop ideas for new products and the systems used to make them as well as modify existing products to increase efficiency or improve performance. You will also support other Designers and Junior Designers in their work and encourage and develop their skills.

Our Research and Development team are a fast paced team that are constantly updating and working with new technologies to ensure our products are up to date and offer the best solutions possible to our diverse customer base.

Key Responsibilities:

• To provide significant design and engineering input into all aspects of design work that falls within your area of expertise as directed by the Team Leader

• To create detailed designs to meet the requirements specified by the TL for the creation of new and existing Numatic products

• To take a full part in the development and improvement of the R&D department – be that organisational, team, or individual, and fully support any continuous improvement activities that impact your own working area.

•To provide some management as well as coaching and mentoring support to Designers and Junior Designers

• To represent Numatic at meetings with other internal and external stakeholders, and to ensure that the interests of Numatic and the department are properly represented and promoted in an appropriate and respectful manner.

• To ensure all changes to process, methodology, environment, practice, etc., that are put in place within the department are fully implemented and adhered to in a positive and supportive manner.

• To ensure that attention to detail, rectification of design error, and cost control, are considerations that you have at the forefront of your mind when engaged on design work – for both new and existing Numatic products.

• To be involved in Business Improvement Projects given to you by the TL as a Role Objective, and to support all other BIPs that impact your own job or that of your team.

Person Specification

•Must have a minimum of 5 years work history as a Product Designer

•Line management or coaching experience would be an advantage

• Excellent knowledge (degree or other appropriate qualification essential) in required area of design expertise.

• Extensive use of CAD modelling software appropriate to area of expertise and of document control.

•Good appreciation of loads and forces acting within components and complex assemblies.

•Demonstrable experience of design work in product development from concept to production.

•Demonstrable experience of component or system modification.

•Plastic injection moulding and/or sheet metalwork, fabricated assemblies, rotational moulding.

•Good understanding of a range of manufacturing processes and construction methods

•Competent at producing Engineering drawings and schemes.

• Experience in design for low cost, high volume manufacture, and design for low volume, high value product.

•Good hand modelmaking skills to demonstrate proof of principle models.

•A good appreciation of business demands.

•Experience interacting across departments and with outside suppliers.

•Key Competencies: creativity, teamworking, communication, attention to detail

•Desirable: Stress analysis, CAE