Senior CPD Engineer - Lead Product Development (Hybrid)

Kohler Co.; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 56,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health care

Generous pension scheme

Company bonus

Job summary

Kohler Mira Ltd. in Cheltenham is seeking an experienced, multi-skilled engineer to join the Continuous Product Development (CPD) team.

This senior role leads design engineering projects across brands to improve and sustain products throughout their lifecycle, with accountability from concept to implementation. You will provide technical direction, identify improvements, manage risks, and ensure compliant, auditable changes while coaching less-experienced engineers.

Qualifications

• A degree, apprenticeship or equivalent professional qualification in a relevant engineering discipline.
• Substantial engineering experience, typically more than six years, including responsibility for complex product or design changes within a regulated or quality-controlled environment.
• Proven ability to lead design engineering projects from concept through detailed design, validation and implementation, working independently and providing technical guidance to others.
• Proven application of structured root cause analysis, risk assessment and validation planning, focused on robust solutions and preventing recurrence.
• Experience producing and reviewing controlled engineering documentation, while translating applicable standards and approval constraints into practical engineering actions.
• Strong decision-making and prioritisation skills, balancing customer need, technical risk and business priorities across competing projects, including urgent or uncertain situations.
• Clear communication and stakeholder management across the business, including influencing decisions through evidence and supporting less-experienced engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional design engineering projects across product categories and brands, remaining accountable from problem definition and concept development through to implementation and benefit realisation.
• Proactively identify product and business improvement opportunities; define the benefit, assess priority and feasibility, build stakeholder support and lead self-started projects through to implementation.
• Own value engineering and lifecycle cost activity, redesigning products and components to deliver measurable savings without compromising safety, compliance or performance.
• Lead technically complex product changes by investigating issues, identifying root causes, balancing key technical and commercial risks, and implementing proportionate solutions that share learning across the businesses.
• Act as the product-development technical authority for the current product portfolio, providing clear guidance during urgent production, supplier and approval issues, working alongside the accountable Manufacturing, SQA and Approvals teams.
• Ensure engineering changes remain compliant, controlled and auditable, with applicable requirements reflected in the relevant engineering and change-control documentation.
• Work with suppliers and external partners to define technical expectations, review evidence, resolve issues and implement sustainable design and cost improvements.
• Use customer feedback, warranty trends and field performance reporting to identify patterns, prioritise improvement activity and measure the effectiveness of completed changes.
• Support effective handover from New Product Development into CPD, ensuring key design intent, risks, evidence and lessons learned are understood and retained.
• Improve engineering methods, standards and processes within CPD and NPD, maintaining appropriate technical rigour while improving consistency and efficiency.
• Provide technical leadership through coaching, design reviews, knowledge sharing and the development of less-experienced engineers.

Skills

Lead design engineering projects

Root cause analysis

Stakeholder management

Mentoring / coaching

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

Creo Parametric

Job description

Kohler Mira Ltd. in Cheltenham is seeking an experienced, multi-skilled engineer to join the Continuous Product Development (CPD) team.

This senior role leads design engineering projects across brands to improve and sustain products throughout their lifecycle, with accountability from concept to implementation. You will provide technical direction, identify improvements, manage risks, and ensure compliant, auditable changes while coaching less-experienced engineers.