Senior Design Engineer

Crown Holdings, Inc.; Saltaire; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

CarnaudMetalbox Engineering (CMbE) is seeking a Senior Design Engineer based at our Shipley Head Office to lead design activities for high-performance packaging machinery. You will transform customer specifications into robust technical solutions, manage design risks, and contribute to IP protection across projects.

The role requires a degree in Mechanical Engineering, strong CAD capabilities, and experience coordinating multi-discipline teams through gate reviews.

Qualifications

• Formal technical qualification to degree level in Mechanical Engineering.
• Excellent communication skills to relay technical information to stakeholders.
• Experience leading technical projects and coordinating with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Act as project design authority delivering technical solutions.
• Capture project risks and IP protection opportunities; document assumptions and calculations.
• Prepare and present technical reports for gate reviews and plan design activities with the project manager.
• Provide technical support to publications for manuals, build books and SOPs.
• Coordinate with quality to verify incoming inspection requirements; occasional travel.

Skills

CAD systems

Technical design

Project leadership

IP protection

Systems integration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

CAD software

PLM/PDM tools

Job description

Job Description

We have a new vacancy for a Senior Design Engineer, predominantly based at our Head Office in Shipley.

Job Description

We have a new vacancy for a Senior Design Engineer, predominantly based at our Head Office in Shipley.

About CMbE

CarnaudMetalbox Engineering (CMbE) designs, develops, and manufactures high-performance metal forming and finishing machinery for the production of beverage, food, and aerosol cans. With our commitment to innovation and precision engineering, it is an exciting time to join our business. CMbE offers you the opportunity to grow and develop your skills in an expanding industry.

Your mission in CMbE

The successful candidate will act as a project design authority, responsible for the delivery of project technical solutions. This role is responsible for generating technical requirements from customers and product specifications; generating design concepts for solutions to specific functional requirements; and evaluating design concept technical and project risks to select preferred solutions. This role is also responsible for documenting design concept assumptions, design trade-offs and calculations within the project design file. The successful candidate will be involved in peer reviewing technical content for gate reviews across projects, identifying opportunities for the protection of design Intellectual Property (IP), and generating test plans to verify design concept and system performance. Occasional travel is required for this role.

Experience leading technical projects is crucial for this role. Primary duties will include, but are not limited to, co-ordinating with the quality department to define incoming inspection requirements to verify component quality; preparing and presenting technical reports for project gate reviews; and contributing to planning design activities with the project manager. The ideal candidate will have experience in contributing to the continuous improvement of the NPD process. The candidate will be able to demonstrate their ability to capture project technical risks and issues throughout the project lifecycle. This role is also responsible for providing technical support to the publications department for the creation of product manuals, build books, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's).

Essential to this role is knowledge of material properties and standards; geometric dimensioning and tolerance principles and standards (ISO); machining methods and techniques; and configuration management (BOM) and Material Resource Planning (MSO) packages. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate sound knowledge and experience of CAD systems to generate models and drawings.

The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate technical knowledge of sensor technologies/solutions; electrical drive systems; mechanical transmission systems; and hydraulic, pneumatic and lubrication systems. Technical knowledge of packaging machinery is desirable.

About You

Candidates must hold a formal technical qualification to degree level, or equivalent, in a Mechanical Engineering discipline. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills to communicate technical information with various stakeholders; together with strong verbal and written skills, problem solving skills, the ability to work effectively within, and across, project teams and be highly organised with a high level of attention to detail. The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate a high quality of work, adaptability, and think strategically.

What CMbE Offers You

• The opportunity to build a career in a multi-cultural environment
• To be rewarded fairly and promoted based on merit and performance
• Professional and personal development through training and work experiences
• Strong engagement and commitment to the safety of our employees

Join us and become part of an international team of professionals across the Crown packaging group who are passionate about precision engineering, can making machinery and sustainable packaging!