1. Position: Design Engineer
2. Salary: £35,000 to £40,000 based on experience
3. Location: Newhaven
4. Hours: Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5pm
5. Collaborative team environment offering career progression, private medical insurance, life assurance, company pension scheme, 23 days annual leave plus bank holidays, Benefit Hub, cycle to work scheme and a 28-day Brighton & Hove Bus Saver
We are looking for a Design Engineer from a background in Design Engineering within manufacturing who has an understanding of electronic design, firmware and software. You’ll join a great company that is well established and who operate internationally.
As the Design Engineer you will work with both new products and in-market modifications.
Duties of this Design Engineer role include:
6. Seeking out approaches to complex issues encountered by the design team and supporting implementing these into products
7. Producing concepts and estimating project time scales and costs
8. Product testing, issuing reports and verifying testing undertaken
9. Working towards product recognition in industry design awards through collaborating with the marketing department
10. Analysing competitor products / technologies and creating reports for management
11. Generating technical documentation for new product development including 2D and 3D drawings
12. Ensuring products are easy to manufacture, install and use. This role will investigate design methodologies to suit particular products
13. Supporting in the development of project documentation and using best practices to design products on time and within budget
14. Providing technical support internally and externally
15. Assisting with internal and external audits from regulatory bodies such as ISO, UL, WRAS, CE
16. Attending exhibitions and providing training where required, which may involve foreign and domestic travel
Skills & experience required:
17. Previous experience as a Design Engineer within manufacturing, ideally electronic design engineering including understanding of firmware and software
18. Experience with SolidWorks 2D and 3D
19. Experience generating Bill of Materials
20. Prototyping experience
21. Experience of data analysis of testing and experience implementing production fixes
Company benefits:
22. Collaborative team environment offering career progression
23. Private medical insurance
24. Life assurance
25. Pension scheme
26. 23 days annual leave plus bank holidays
27. Benefit Hub
28. Cycle to work scheme
29. 28-day Brighton & Hove Bus Saver
Wild Recruitment Ltd T/A First Recruitment Services is acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy.