Overview
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First Military Recruitment are currently seeking a Design Engineer on behalf of one of our clients.
Our client encourages applications from ex-military personnel however all candidates will be given due consideration.
Duties and Responsibilities
1. Generation of innovative, robust, and capable product and components designs from the perspective of ‘cradle to grave’.
2. Design verification and validation through analytical and physical test methods
3. Creation and delivery of presentations for the communication of concepts, progress, and milestones to internal and external stakeholders.
4. To work with the Senior Design Engineer to ensure technical solutions meet the Critical to Success expectations of the business and the continued growth of the brand.
5. To liaise with Product Management to define and record technical requirements at the project outset, record requirement changes, and measure performance against during the development process.
6. To further support Product Management in extrapolation of user feedback and customer trials.
7. Preparation and maintenance of development documentation to ISO9001 throughout the design process in accordance with, and for review via the GAINS development process.
8. Generate prototypes, test plans, and test procedures; ensuring all findings are properly recorded.
9. Maintain a high standard of communication with members of other teams, functional managers, customers, approval bodies, independent testing facilities and suppliers to pursue project objectives, contributing to cross-functional meetings in the facilitation of this.
10. To prepare drawings, tolerance stack-ups, SPC capability data and ISIR reports, organise reviews, document releases, and suggest resulting mitigative actions.
11. To increase personal skills in mechanical engineering and techniques, materials engineering, problem analysis techniques, benchmarking, FMEAs, 6sigma and CAD
12. To increase personal understanding of appropriate regulatory standards, consumer trends within the market, contemporary respirator technology and applicable technologies.
Skills and Qualifications:
13. Experience in new product development within respiratory protection or a related field.
14. A flair for innovation, able to demonstrate enthusiasm, flexibility, and the ability to learn new skills quickly.
15. Hands on practical experience in model making and product testing.
16. Experienced in SolidWorks CAD Suite.
17. Working knowledge of PC based word processing and spread sheets.
18. Ability to work in a structured and controlled manner under pressure.
19. Self-starter and self-managed
20. Positive “can do “attitude and an eye for detail.
Location: Melksham
Salary: £30,000