Design Engineer - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Owen Daniels Consultancy

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Design Engineer

Permanent Position

Excellent salary/package (Holiday: 25 days + 8 Statutory Days, Pension up to 7% matched,
Life Assurance: 5x Basic Salary)


Growing Manufacturing Business

Birmingham

My client are a precision manufacturing business based North Birmingham specialising in machining and assembly of high value low volume components. The Design Engineer will be responsible for maintaining and developing the existing companyproduct range and creating solutions to customer problems.

Design Engineer

  • Interpret customer specifications and create solutions that fully satisfy requirements.
  • Use correct standards, design codes and pressure vessel codes where appropriate (Def Stans, BS, ISO, DN, PD etc)
  • Create technical documentation to demonstrate sound engineering practice and compliance.
  • Establish and maintain design philosophies to support of the valve design process and maintain traceability.
  • Create and maintain design calculations to validate new designs and products.
  • Introduce appropriate validation and test procedures and programmes for prototypes.
  • Produce reports and project plans, autonomously or with the appropriate project lead.
  • Participate in cross functional teams and collaborating with the engineering team accordingly.
  • Ensure continued communication and good relationships with external and internal customers.
  • Liaise with and provide technical support to customers and suppliers.
  • Liaise with internal and external development technicians to assess results from testing.
  • Represent the business at customer and supplier meetings when necessary.
  • Lead small teams to deliver on commitments.
  • Take ownership and resolve productionbased issues.
  • Create and maintain product designs and drawings in Solidworks and Draftsight, using the correct templates and configuration control.
  • Supporting the Engineering department in detailing designs and updating production database from launch to production.
  • Carrying out any other duties appropriate to this post, as necessary or as requested.

Design Engineer

Essential Qualifications / Experience / Skills:

  • Experience in leading external meetings, including design reviews and technical presentations
  • Creating and maintain 2D and 3D drawings and 3D models
  • Experience designing complex mechanical products

Design Engineer

Essential Qualifications / Experience / Skills:

  • Marine or Defence experience
  • Draftsight and Solidworks experience
  • Experience of Mathcad to create engineering calculations

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