Design Engineer – Heavy Engineering – Competitive Salary

Clemence Rogers are currently recruiting for a Design engineer to join a Heavy Engineering growing manufacturing company.

Key responsibilities of a Design Engineer:

• Ensure appropriate checking & review of all documents and drawings before release at any stage including revision status.

• Control of quality of engineering documents with regard to quality assurance basis.

• Oversee all allocated engineering projects and workflow, and support internal and external resources to ensure timely delivery of projects, expected quality, and allotted budget.

• Escalate resource, infrastructure issues, concern areas that implicate the production process, to the right stakeholders.

• Own the process of preparation of design deliverables with due consideration for applicable codes and standards.

• Take ownership of deliverables produced & their quality.

• Capture all changes and modifications in the deliverables that has been intimated by project, prior to release of deliverable.

• Attend project review meetings.

• Keep line management informed on progress of project, with agreed periodicity.

• Produce brand specific designs, meeting current and historic specifications and current legislation.

• Produce and control bills of materials and maintain assemblies through the supply chain system.

• Provide technical skills to develop existing and new products and develop methods within the manufacturing process.

• Control and issue all drawings associated with the company products.

• Support sales team in pre-sales technical concept and budgeting activities.

• Interpret client requirements, identify and address design parameters and engineering problems and ensure solutions are implemented accurately and in budget.

Ideal Candidate:

• Experience of 3-D CAD Design.

• Working knowledge of AutoCAD software

• Working knowledge of stress loading and material properties

• Qualified to a minimum HNC / degree level in an Engineering or similar discipline or equivalent experience.

• Experience within the commercial vehicle sector would be preferred.

• Experience of designing an engineered product working to specific industry standards.

• Excellent communications skills both written and verbal

• Ability to work to strict deadlines

• Proficient with MS Office applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Projects etc.

• Critical thinking with exceptional problem solving skills and root cause analysis.

• Able to work independently or in team environment.

• Understanding of FMEA an design for manufacture and assembly (DFMA)