Product Design Engineer

Kodu; Droitwich Spa; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Kodu in the United Kingdom is seeking a hands-on mechanical design engineer to own the development of cordless vacuums, air movement and filtration hardware from CAD through tooling to production.

You’ll collaborate with industrial design, engineering and suppliers, including the China build team, to drive fast, test-and-learn development in a rebuilt NPD setup. This role suits an engineer who has shipped parts to tooling, passed tests and fixed issues, shaping how the team works.

Qualifications

• Proven experience owning physical products into production.
• Experience with airflow, motors, filtration, sealing, cordless or battery systems.
• Strong 3D CAD skills in Creo/SolidWorks/Inventor with tolerance stack ups and design for manufacture.

Responsibilities

• Own the mechanical and design engineering of dry products from CAD through tooling and into production.
• Collaborate with industrial design, engineering and suppliers, including the build team in China.
• Iterate on parts through tooling, testing and fixes to meet requirements.

Skills

Product ownership

Electromechanical design

Cross‑functional communication

Tools

Creo

SolidWorks

Inventor

Job description

Own the engineering of cordless vacuums, air movement and filtration products, from CAD through tooling and into millions of homes. You'll be one of the first engineers in a new product development team being rebuilt from scratch, with a global group's investment behind it.

You'll be joining one of the best-known floor care brands in the UK. It is now part of a global tools and appliances group, which has brought engineering and new product development back to the UK and is investing to rebuild it. The culture is moving towards fast build, test and learn loops, with a model shop in the same building.

The role

You'll own the mechanical and design engineering of dry products: cordless and stick vacuums, air movement, filtration, and motor and battery systems. That means CAD of complex parts and assemblies, tolerance stack ups, FEA, and the design for manufacture calls that decide how each part gets made. You'll work with industrial design, engineering and suppliers, and directly with the build team in China to get parts tooled, tested and right.

This suits an engineer who has watched a part they drew get tooled, fail a test and get fixed, and who wants to shape how a team works, not just slot into one.

What you'll need

• Proven experience owning physical products into production, including parts you designed being tooled, tested and changed, not just concept work.
• Electromechanical product experience, such as airflow, motors, filtration, sealing, cordless or battery systems, or small motorised appliances.
• Strong 3D CAD of complex parts and assemblies in CREO, SolidWorks, Inventor or similar, with tolerance stack ups and design for manufacture as second nature.
• Clear communication across engineering, design and suppliers, including build and production teams in China working in a different time zone.

The details

• Reporting to the Head of Engineering
• Occasional supplier and factory travel
• Model shop and engineers under one roof
• Easy commute from Worcester and Birmingham
• Right to work in the UK required
• Start: ASAP

What it isn't

This isn't a hybrid role. It's four days a week on site, because the work happens around the hardware, the model shop and the people building it. It also isn't a finished process. The team is being rebuilt, so some briefs will be loose and some ways of working are still being decided. If you'd rather help decide how it's done, that's the point.