Founded back in the 1980’s, this company is a successful business with approximately 50 employees, designing and manufacturing bespoke products for the UK construction / specification market.
The in-house design team is responsible for creating one-off designs, which are manufactured in the UK and assembled at their premises. They work alongside some of the top firms in the country and their products often feature on award-winning architectural buildings throughout the UK.
As well as their award-winning products and designs they take a great pride in their people and their teams. Every employee plays an integral part in the success of the business. Commitment to the company culture and way of working will be considered in equal measure alongside the candidates’ professional skills and experience.
This is your chance to join a thriving, values-led, customer focused, employee-owned organisation.
Senior Design Engineer Salary, Hours and Benefits
£38,000
37.5 hours per week, 8:00am – 4:30pm, with flexibility
Hybrid – two days per week in the office (after training)
22 days holiday, which can go to 28 days with service
Other benefits include: Life Assurance, Health Cash Plan plus more.
Minimum 5 years experience, not including work placements, as a product designer for a technical or specialist products company.
Minimum 2 years leadership or staff management experience, working as a supervisor or design lead (or equivalent).
Strong organisational and planning skills, demonstrating an ability to manage several projects concurrently through to successful completion.
Excellent commercial awareness when working with external customers, understanding the need for efficiency, cost-effectiveness, quality and customer care.
High degree of autonomy, displaying energy and commitment to progress projects as well as other activities proactively.
Excellent eye for detail, demonstrating ideas through innovative, quality designs and visuals to present to customers.
Senior Design Engineer Key Responsibilities (but not limited to):
Supervisory:
Ensuring the successful daily operation of bespoke project orders, enquiry stage projects, technical support requests, or any other work undertaken within the team.
Overseeing and validating the design, development and implementation of all bespoke project designs and new bespoke product applications produced by the bespoke design team.
Ensuring that the customer experience is at the heart of everything they do and promote it within the bespoke design team when working with customers, internal teams and suppliers.
Identifying and suggesting new methods, procedures and work processes to continuously improve efficiencies and working practices.
Undertaking regular One-to-One meetings, appraisals and discussions of development plans with direct reports.
Designing:
Liaising directly with customers to identify their needs and provide project support and technical advice, promoting the company brand through the production of high-quality visuals or drawings to communicate designs and present to our customers.
Undertaking the design and development of innovative solutions to the client’s specification, producing high quality 3D models for manufacturing purposes, fully detailed as required, utilising sheet metal features where appropriate.
Actively building relationships with architects and contractors through project work, site visits, project meetings, and events.
Utilising commercial and financial awareness to work closely with the customer and internal departments when establishing the feasibility and realisation of product design specifications.
Identifying where prototyping or analysis may be required, undertaking the work or assisting with team members to verify new design features where necessary.
Please Note: Candidates must have the right to live and work in the UK.
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Probe Technical Recruitment, providing Design, R&D & Projects Engineering Recruitment Support since 1994