Product Design Engineer

Swegon UK & I; Whitstable; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

The Product Design Engineer at Swegon UK&I will be based at our Whitstable site and provide technical leadership in the design and lifecycle support of mechanical products. You will work on reverse engineering and redesign of legacy products to ensure functional, cost, manufacturing and regulatory requirements are met, collaborating with the senior design engineer to set technical direction.

Key duties include creating 2D/3D CAD models, executing DOE, performing FEA analyses, and guiding design

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years mechanical design engineering experience

Responsibilities

• Ensure all designs, prototypes and development activities meet health, safety and regulatory requirements
• Conduct reverse engineering to redesign and improve existing products
• Develop concept designs from analysis and requirements
• Produce 2D/3D CAD models and drawings using AutoCAD
• Plan and execute prototype manufacture, build and evaluation
• Design of Experiments (DOE) execution
• Perform FEA analysis (Nastran)
• Analyse test data to drive product improvement
• Perform root cause analysis and technical problem solving
• Support manufacturing and resolve design issues
• Maintain technical documentation and project reports
• Conduct design reviews and present data to stakeholders

Skills

Mechanical design

Reverse engineering

Prototype testing

FEA

DOE

CAD (2D/3D)

Design for production

Autocad

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

Nastran

Job description

Product Design Engineer:
The Product Design Engineer, based at our site in Whitstable; Kent, will provide technical expertise within the engineering function of the UK’s leading supplier of passive fire protection products, an organisation actively involved in driving fire standards in the UK. The role is responsible for the design integrity and lifecycle support of mechanical products. It covers reverse engineering and redesign of legacy products, ensuring solutions meet functional, cost, manufacturing and regulatory requirements. The legacy product engineer works with the senior design engineer to develop technical direction, maintain engineering standards and guide the business through development and validation.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Ensure all engineering designs, prototypes and development activities are carried out in accordance with relevant health, safety and regulatory requirements
• Conduct reverse engineering activities to analyse, redesign and improve existing products
• Develop concept designs based on engineering analysis, test data and requirements
• Produce 2D/3D CAD models and drawings using AutoCAD
• Plan and execute prototype manufacture including build and evaluation
• Design and conduct Design of Experiments (DOE)
• Perform FEA analysis (Nastran)
• Analyse test data to drive product improvement
• Perform technical problem solving and root cause analysis
• Support manufacturing and resolve design issues
• Maintain technical documentation and reports
• Conduct design reviews and present technical data to all project stakeholders

Essential Experience

• 3-5+ years mechanical design engineering experience
• Reverse engineering and product redesign
• Prototype development and testing
• Engineering analysis (FEA/calculations)
• Design to production handover

Desirable Experience

• Project management experience
• Direct medium-high volume production environment exposure
• Toolroom trained (lathe, CNC, etc)
• Prototype development
• Lean/Continuous Improvement.

Essential Qualifications

• Degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent experience

We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation, in line with the Equality Act 2010. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates and are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is fair, transparent, and accessible to all. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate your needs.

We offer

At Swegon, we work to create the world's best indoor climate that makes people thrive and feel good inside. We have ambitious goals in our sustainability efforts, in offering the most energy-efficient products, promoting gender equality, and becoming carbon neutral, and we have clear transparency in our work. We offer exciting challenges in a global environment with competent colleagues and a culture characterized by our values; "Customer Empathy, Trust, and Commitment," which permeate everything we do and are the basis for the decisions we make and how we interact with each other. At Swegon, we have an open and flexible organizational culture with short decision-making processes, plenty of development opportunities, and we care about you being able to balance your work with your personal life. We place great emphasis on personal qualities, welcome applicants with different backgrounds, and strive for diversity and gender equality.

(Please note that we are not looking to use any agencies to fill this vacancy)

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