Senior Technician Designer

The Company

Established player within the Merchandising and Retail Display arena. The client base is expanding both domestically and internationally and require an ambitious individual to join the Engineering Design Team. Ideally you have 3+ years of similar experience although they will consider exceptional candidates with less experience.

Their supply offer is unparalleled when a client “knows what they want”. Skilled engineers ensure that their client’s specification is produced to the highest quality no matter what the supply region. The procurement specialists based in the UK work directly with the offshore Project Management/QC teams and production partners to minimize touch-points, delivering highest quality at lowest possible cost.

They offer you an opportunity to join an expanding business with growing international presence. The entrepreneurial nature will naturally gravitate towards motivated individuals and those who show good initiative, so if your expectations and skill-set meet the above, they are interested in hearing from you.

The Role/ Person
As part of the Technical Design group based in the Hertfordshire studio location, you will partner with a cross functional team to ensure displays and POP concepts are delivered on-budget, factory ready, and built to specifications. You will provide essential knowledge for manufacturing materials, processes, and cost to transform visualized concepts into manufacturing-ready drawings.
Your responsibilities:
• Present and discuss solutions at client meetings.
• Check and approve prototypes/first articles
• Sketch draft solutions to solve assembly/manufacturing problems
• Produce prototype and manufacturing drawings from approved concepts
• Partner with the production department to ensure the right solutions to the supply chain
• Visit factories to verify display construction, specifications, and quality
• Ensure project documentation (parts lists, QC guidelines, technical specifications, assembly diagrams) align with agreed company processes
• Produce rendered images from Solidworks.
Your attributes:
• At least 3 years POP design industry experience.
• Comfortable to lead meetings with clients.
• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, or Mechanical Engineering
• Experience working with plastic sheet fabrication, vacuum forming, injection molding, extrusions, metal, sheet metal, wire forming, steel tube and finishing, wood, and millwork
• Proficient with SolidWorks 2013 (drawings and renders), and Adobe CS (Illustrator, Photoshop)
• Moderate travel when necessary – local and overseas.
• Clean driving license essential.
• Self-motivated
• Solutions driven.
Our ideal candidate will have a strong sketching ability, high attention to detail, and the ability to prioritize and deliver quality results on multiple projects with tight deadlines. This person must have excellent interpersonal skills and work well in a team environment.
We are a team orientated organization and as such this person will be expected to take a leading role managing the projects and additional resource when required.