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Design Engineer

Posted 14 hours ago

  • Newhaven, East Sussex
  • Permanent
  • £35,000 to £40,000 /Yr
  • Sponsored
  • Expires In a month
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:

* Seeking out approaches to complex issues encountered by the design team and supporting implementing these into products

* Producing concepts and estimating project time scales and costs

* Product testing, issuing reports and verifying testing undertaken

* Working towards product recognition in industry design awards through collaborating with the marketing department

* Analysing competitor products / technologies and creating reports for management

* Generating technical documentation for new product development including 2D and 3D drawings

* Ensuring products are easy to manufacture, install and use. This role will investigate design methodologies to suit particular products

* Supporting in the development of project documentation and using best practices to design products on time and within budget

* Providing technical support internally and externally

* Assisting with internal and external audits from regulatory bodies such as ISO, UL, WRAS, CE

* Attending exhibitions and providing training where required, which may involve foreign and domestic travel

Skills & experience required:

* Previous experience as a Design Engineer within manufacturing, ideally electronic design engineering including understanding of firmware and software

* Experience with SolidWorks 2D and 3D

* Experience generating Bill of Materials

* Prototyping experience

* Experience of data analysis of testing and experience implementing production fixes

Company benefits:

* Collaborative team environment offering career progression

* Private medical insurance

* Life assurance

* Pension scheme

* 23 days annual leave plus bank holidays

* Benefit Hub

* Cycle to work scheme

* 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