Design Engineer

Catorfaen; Chalgrove; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holidays per year

£200 health & wellbeing allowance

Life assurance

Company sick pay

24/7 virtual GP access

Job summary

Catorfaen is seeking an engineering professional for a full-time position in Chalgrove, Oxfordshire. The role involves designing, testing, and rolling out new products within the additive manufacturing hardware sector. You will be responsible for the entire product development cycle from concept to production scale-up.

Ideal candidates hold an engineering degree, are proficient with CAD (preferably SolidWorks), and have experience with FDM 3D printing. The position provides competitive salary and benefits including 25 days of annual leave, health & wellbeing allowances, and family-friendly leave pay.

Qualifications

• Engineering Degree or equivalent knowledge.
• Proficiency with CAD, ideally SolidWorks.
• Experience with FDM 3D printing.

Responsibilities

• Carry out detailed design work including 3D modelling and testing.
• Responsible for running technical aspects of development projects.
• Create and approve technical reports and documentation.
• Point of contact between engineering and other departments.
• Ensure design files are kept up to date.
• Work closely with operations and manufacturing.

Job description

The Company

Aninnovative market leader in the design and development of highly engineeredandcustomised systems within the 3D printing industry. The company are at theforefront of the design and development of extrusion systems and have a strongproduct portfolio selling into both B2B and B2C markets.

Thecompany contracts the manufacture of their components worldwide and performsquality control, warehousing, assembly, and dispatch on site in Oxfordshire.

E3Dis an equal opportunities employer.

Core Values

TeamE3D – We are open, honest, humble, helpful, have fun, communicate& work positively as a team.

Development –Developing people, technology, relationships, products.

Engaged – Weengage in what we do and why we do it.

Delivery – Wedeliver on our promises and commitments.

TheRole

Permanent

Location – Chalgrove, Oxfordshire

Thisrole is based full-time onsite.

Main purpose of the job

This role within the engineering team is responsiblefor the design, testing and roll out of new products within the space ofadditive manufacturing hardware. This will cover the whole new productdevelopment cycle, from coming up with concepts, detailed design work, DFMEA,prototyping, testing and ultimately helping scale up for volume productionworking with the quality, production and marketing teams.

Who you are responsible to:

This rolereports to Principal Design Engineer

Main tasks of the job

• Carry outdetailed design work including 3D modelling, simulation (eg thermal& stress) and design verification testing,as required.
• Responsiblefor the day-to-day running of the technical aspects of developmentprojects under the supervision of senior engineers.
• Creationand approval of technical reports and documentationas required.
• Bethe day-to-day point of contact between engineering andother departments for development projects.
• Ensuredesign files and information are kept up to date and stored inaccordance with departmental procedures.
• Keepup to date with the latest manufacturing techniques and drawingstandards.
• Workclosely with operations, manufacturing and production engineersto ensure products are designed for manufacture and assembly.

Theabove is not an exhaustive list of duties and you will be expected to performdifferent tasks as necessitated by your changing role within the organisationand the overall business objectives of the organisation.

Essential skills and experience

• EngineeringDegree or equivalent knowledge
• Proficiencywith CAD, ideally SolidWorks
• Experiencewith FDM 3D printing.

Desirable skills and experience

• Experiencein a prototyping workshop, making / modifying prototypes and test jigs.
• Experiencewith 3D printer firmware such as Klipper or Marlin.
• ProjectManagement
• Experiencecollaborating with other departments such as; production, quality,purchasing and marketing.

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits package including:

• 25days holidays per year (increasing to 28 days after 5 years’ continuousservice) plus public/bank holidays
• £200health & wellbeing allowance
• AnEmployee Assistance Programme and virtual wellbeing
• Lifeassurance
• Companysick pay
• Companyfamily-friendly leave pay
• 24/7virtual GP, second medical opinion and mental health support
• Bereavementcounselling and probate helpline