This is a fantastic opportunity to join an innovative and well-established automotive manufacturing business in Tamworth, who due to success, are looking to expand their design team with the appointment of a Design Engineer.
Our client, a leader in their field, has been delivering high-quality products to customers worldwide for over 35 years due to their investment into developing their employees and the state-of-the-art design, engineering, and machining equipment.
The role offers a generous salary, holiday, supportive environment, and promotion opportunities.
What We Need From You As a Design Engineer
* 2 years experience with strong experience of fabrication design using plastics and sheet metal materials
* Ideally have strong experience of using SolidWorks
* Some knowledge of CNC Programming and nesting using Alphacam or SWOOD
* Ideally have some automotive design experience, preferably HGV or LGV vehicles
* Ability to manage changing priorities adapting to multiple projects at the same time
* Good communication skills with the ability to work as part of a team or independently
What The Role Involves
Working on the design and build of specialist vehicles for both national and international clients. Taking the initial brief from the customer and working through the initial design all the way through to the approval stage. Once the approval is signed off, it will be your responsibility to produce full production drawings including BOMs, ready to go to the programming stage of the process for full production roll-out.
* Liaising with sales/project team and clients to take project brief
* Designing concept models from brief, ready for customer sign off
* Carrying out full 3D design of concept to the point of releasing fabrication drawings and DXFs ready for programming; this could be anything from a simple box design to full vehicle bodies
* CNC programming the full 3D design using SWOOD (Integrated with SolidWorks)
* Draughting full manufacturing drawings ready for release to the workshop teams
* Creating Bill of Materials, audit trails, and releases of design/product changes
* Liaising with internal manufacturing team to resolve any production issues
Salary: £32,000 - £37,000 per annum - negotiable depending on experience.
Hours: Monday to Thursday 8am to 4.30pm, Fridays 8am to 1pm.
Benefits
* 24 days holiday plus bank holidays
* Company pension
* On site parking
* Opportunity to progress
* Supportive working environment
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