Vacancy No 5245 Vacancy Title R&D ENGINEER CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTS Location: KENT Vacancy Description Do you have an interest in building a career with a market leading company? If so, this exciting opportunity to join a market leading organisation based in KENT might what you’ve been looking for? The Company A highly successful Specialist Manufacturer, with an incredible reputation built up through years of dedication and professionalism. Our client is a Specialist Manufacturer with an enviable record of product innovation and quality. Our client is committed to the continuous development of their people and offers excellent career progression opportunities to anyone who joins their business. The Opportunity Due to growth, expansion and significant project wins an excellent opportunity has arisen for a high caliber, confident, self-starting R&D ENGINEER to join the business. The Role Core values Our Client seeks to recruit individuals who can endorse their core values and strive towards achieving the Company mission statement. Values • Manufacturing Excellence • Achieving Compliance • Innovation in Design • Caring for Employee Needs • Outstanding Customer Service Mission statement ‘Manufacturing competitively priced, high quality, construction products’ Reporting line Reporting to the Engineering Manager Due to unprecedented success, our Client is seeking an experienced Research & Development Engineer to join their expanding design team, creating new products and improving existing products to satisfy their customers and seek to continuously improve the Company’s products and processes. Job duties • The creation of new products and improvements of existing product. This is from concept to finished product into production • Information gathering at the initial stages of projects to create product design specification and maintaining accurate project information throughout design process • The creation of BOM and product costing • Work with life safety EN product standards, to gain classification and CE marking • Prototype testing (both in-house and external) and documenting reports. Incorporating of test/certificate/reports into certification/literature liaising with QA • In line with the needs of the engineering schedule produce high-quality, detailed, production ready manufacturing drawings • Liaise with customers to ensure products designs meet their expectations • Continuously seek to improve the design processes to ensure efficiency and flexibility • Liaise with production to assist in the manufacture of product, providing any required information • Ensure that the processes within your control adhere to relevant products standards • Provide technical information and assist in the configuration of the company ERP system Knowledge, experience and qualifications • At least 2 years conceptual design experience obtained in a similar field • Minimum of 3 years relevant engineering experience. • Strong IT skills including Microsoft Office packages such as Word, Outlook and Excel. • Experience of Autodesk Inventor (preferred) • Experience with sheet metal (preferred) • Ability to interpret manufacturing drawings • Have the acumen to work with technical information/data and EN standards. • A ‘can do’ flexible attitude, with the ability to work independently or as part of a team LOCATION KENT SALARY & BENEFITS NEGOTIABLE BASIC SALARY D.O.E. BENEFITS PACKAGE