New Product Development Engineer

Salary: £30,000 – £36,000 per year

This newly created New Product Development Engineer will be a unique opportunity for an inquisitive, creative, conscientious, adaptable and practical mechanical engineer to excel in.

Joining this successful engineering manufacturer as the New Product Development Engineer, you will be working with the MD to keep them at the forefront of the market with new products and innovations. Customer requests and business expansion has created this opportunity for a bright engineer to follow the NPD projects through all the stages of research, market analysis, design, development and test to launch. This will be a varied and multifaceted role at the heart of the engineering operations team.

Key Responsibilities of the New Product Development Engineer:

* Design and Product Development: taking new concepts and ideas through development, you will work closely with customers, suppliers, the management team and manufacturing to bring innovations to market on time, in budget and to high quality standards.

* Research and development of materials, prototypes, processes, and market demand analysis for conceived products

* Documentation Generation: you will develop detailed Solid Edge CAD drawings, GA’s, component detail and BOM’s to give full traceability

* Project Management: taking from initial brief through to final completion, projects need to be delivered on time, in budget and financially viable. Lots of liaison internally and externally will be needed along with the ability to plan, organise, chase up and deliver a successful result

* Quality, Compliance and Health and Safety: all products must be compliant to customer and regulatory standards so working closely with the Quality Manager, test houses, customers and technical engineering will be essential. H&S must be adhered to and promoted company wide.

The experience and skills for the New Product Development Engineer:

* BEng / BSc / /Degree in a Mechanical Engineering, with a strong practical aptitude and experience of working with stainless steel and metal fabrication

* Knowledge of fluid and thermo dynamics, especially heat transfer would be ideal

* Experience in new product research, design and development using a 2D & 3D CAD system, ideally Solid Edge, able to produce component manufacturing and assembly drawings with structured BOM’s

* Project Management, QMS knowledge to meet ISO9000, H&S, solid Microsoft Office skills

* You will be inquisitive, conscientious and able to multitask showing adaptable skills in this multi-disciplinary role

* With excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills, you will be comfortable dealing with customers, suppliers and manufacturing, demonstrating a good commercial understanding

* A strong team player, proactive outlook with attention to detail, you must also be able to work on your own initiative, yet adhere to a product development timeline process

Hybrid working available with a mix of office and WFH

Actively interviewing and ready to hire a New Product Development Engineer immediately so upload your CV using the links provided or contact Deborah

Salary and benefits: £30,000 – £36,000 d.o.e. + Pension contribution, 25 days holiday

Opportunity to work with: Mechanical | Engineering |Product Design | 2D & 3D CAD | Solid Edge | Components | Project Management |

Commutable from: Attleborough | Brandon | Bury St Edmunds | Diss | Mildenhall | Newmarket | Stowmarket | Soham Swaffham | Thetford | Watton and surrounding areas

Similar titles: Design Engineer | Development Engineer | Project Engineer | Production Engineer | Technical Engineer | Applications Engineer

You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this role.

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