NPI Design Engineer

Dyson; Chippenham; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in England is seeking a Design Engineer for their New Product Introduction team. The successful candidate will ideate and develop innovative concepts while collaborating with top engineers to create disruptive products. Candidates should have a degree in engineering or science and experience in a 3D CAD environment. This role offers comprehensive benefits including a competitive pension scheme and private medical insurance.

Benefits

Performance-related bonus scheme

Competitive pension scheme

Free on-site lunches

Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme

Private medical and dental insurance

Qualifications

• Degree in a relevant Engineering or Science discipline or equivalent.
• High degree of creativity and ability to work within small teams.
• Experience in a 3D CAD design environment.

Responsibilities

• Ideate and develop innovative concepts for NPI.
• Design and build functional prototypes for testing.
• Collaborate with teams to integrate technologies into product design.

Skills

Creativity

3D CAD design

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Degree in Engineering or Science

Job description

About us

As a Design Engineer in NPI, you will work on the discovery and development of disruptive new product concepts, new to market features and technologies. Working in our world class research, design and development (RDD) department, you will have the opportunity to work alongside leading technical specialists and highly creative engineers to create industry leading and game‑changing products.

About the role

• Ideate and develop innovative concepts to drive step change development across NPI.
• Design and build functional prototype products suitable for testing, review and demonstration to senior level stakeholders.
• Actively understand consumer problems, using them to drive innovative solutions.
• Design and develop subsystems and features ensuring high-quality product concept performance.
• Collaborate with NST and Research teams to integrate technologies into the overall product design.
• Create technical documentation, including specifications, test plans, functional prototypes and design reports.
• Perform and review analysis on performance tests and develop efficient solutions to improve.
• Take an active, hands‑on role to ensure that all engineering problems are resolved thoroughly.
• Stay current with industry trends and changing technologies, applying new techniques to improve product designs.

About you

• A degree in a relevant Engineering or Science discipline or equivalent.
• A high degree of creativity and the ability to work well within small, focused teams.
• A creative and considered approach to problem solving, following clear design processes.
• A practical and methodical approach to design using an iterative development cycle of prototyping and testing.
• Experience working in a 3D CAD design environment.
• The ability to communicate your ideas to others within your team and across a business.

Benefits

Financial

• Performance‑related bonus scheme
• Competitive pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Discounts on Dyson machines and retail discounts
• Free bus travel to and from campus (from Bristol, Bath, Chippenham, and Swindon)

Lifestyle

• 27 days’ holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Free on‑site lunches, fruit, and hot drinks
• Free on‑site sports centre, gym, hair salon, and lifestyle assistance (concierge)
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Ability to purchase additional holiday

Health

• Private medical insurance and dental insurance
• Employee assistance programme, digital GP, on‑site physio and GP, prescription service, fertility treatment support

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.