Product Design Engineer

Role: Product Design Engineer

Salary: Competitive

Location: Cheshire

Reporting to: Operations and Technical Director

The Client.

A leading manufacturer and supplier of lighting equipment and luminaires for extremely niche industries. Customers include many blue-chip companies worldwide. Continually pushing the boundaries of innovation and redefining the benchmark for excellence, they set the standards others want to follow.

About the Role.

Reporting to the Operations and Technical Director, your primary role will be to create designs based on a current range of standard products; to create special design variants based on those products and - being guided by customer specifications - to create completely new product developments. Employing the principles of Design for Manufacture, you will create detailed design documentation and support the design workflow process, to enable the products to be manufactured in our on-site facility in accordance with the relevant Luminaire Safety Standards.

Skill and career progression is encouraged, supported by relevant training and personal development courses where required.

Key Responsibilities

• Working as part of a team, to be responsible for creating and maintaining accurate, clear and detailed design data to support the manufacture of any standard, variant or new product development.
• Collaborate with the Technical team to ensure our designs comply with the relevant Luminaire Design Standards.
• Gain an understanding of the Solite product portfolio and follow guidelines to ensure consistency across design elements.
• Assist in the maintenance of the Company design data and workflow systems.
• Understanding of requirements of ISO 9001 control system compliance.
• Contribute ideas and creative thinking to improve products and design processes.
• Present product design ideas to Operations Director for signoff and customers for approval and take direction whenever necessary.

Skills/Experience

• Degree in Product Design/ HND or other equivalent engineering qualification i.e., HNC in Mechanical Engineering. Proven commercial skills in a similar role or industry would be an advantage.
• Ideally 5 years minimum design experience.
• Sheet metal /fabrication design experience would be an advantage.
• Experience in the use of Inventor, AutoCAD and working with Vault is strongly desirable.
• Knowledge of design processes and experience of Design for Manufacture is vital.
• Demonstrating creative thinking, technical ability and an awareness of current design trends.
• Ability to demonstrate ideas, research and problem solving.
• Highly organised, able to prioritise workload and understand design briefs.
• Demonstrate a keen attention to detail and deliver a high standard of work.
• Being able to communicate with other individuals to deliver projects under challenging deadlines.
• An understanding of working to brand guidelines is desirable but not essential.

If you are interested in the role, upon application please include recent work examples and/or portfolio. Please submit your application to: jthomas@serlimited.com