Senior Engineer – Materials & Customer Solutions

gtweed; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Greene, Tweed seeks an experienced engineering professional to interpret customer requirements and drive design, development, and delivery of GT materials and processes. The role collaborates with customers, the commercial team, and operations to provide technical leadership in product development and testing, operating independently with minimal supervision.

Essential duties include supporting external customers and internal teams, generating design proposals, mentoring staff, and advancing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical field.
• 6-10 years in engineering or design environment.
• Experience with 3D CAD software; knowledge of FEA systems preferred.
• Strong computer literacy, especially MS Office.
• Ability to work

Responsibilities

• Provides technical assistance to external customers, sales, manufacturing and quality, visiting customer sites when required, to ensure that the design needs of internal and external customers are met on a timely and effective basis.
• Generates, leads, and approves design proposals via Global Incremental Process and communicates alignments and/or misalignments with customer requirements based on our internal capabilities.
• Instructs, directs, and checks the work of less experienced engineers or technicians. Actively supports mentoring and conducts training activities.
• Recommends material based on application criteria in line with existing functional guidelines and reviews material specifications to determine alignment between GT and customer requirements.
• Identifies & proposes development or continuous improvement opportunities for GT to apply technology or product by extension of technology or capabilities.
• Supports disposition of material batches that may be flagged for review through our internal quality system using their baseline understanding of material data such as Tg, density, modulus.
• Ensures model accuracy, design documentation, drafting standards alignment, and/or testing requirements are met when generating or approving drawings for production.
• Conducts complex design analysis of components and/or assemblies that may extend current product/material/manufacturing capabilities and completes these work assignments utilizing engineering principles & functional protocols to generate the necessary documentation.
• Assures product quality by defining testing/qualification/validation methods aligned with application requirements; Clearly understands and communicates testing methods for finished- product and system capabilities to Central Engineering; Produces, oversees, and approves external facing technical reports as needed.
• Leads technical or business projects in support of strategic goals, leverages cross functional network to drive execution from other business functions' and other engineering personnel.
• Generates, leads, and approves Product Performance analysis reports/documentation of returned GT products in order to determine modes of failure and areas of improvement to be made, and to advise team members or customers on design changes and other product improvements that could be made.
• Dispositions finished product submitted to the Material Review Board using and develops tools as need for product or process improvement based on their observations.
• Proposes and Generates Work Instructions related to functionality of their department in alignment with industry standards and external customer requirements.
• Attend and participate in technical meetings and on committees, as requested, and where appropriate. Represent GT in order to apply suitable input and controls on materials and parts specifications to ensure GT's best interests are maintained.
• Organize and deliver technical presentations in support of the business goals to broad audience sets such as customer meetings, industry forums, and technical societies.

Skills

3D CAD

FEA

MS Office

Engineering experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

3D CAD software

FEA software

Job description

Greene, Tweed seeks an experienced engineering professional to interpret customer requirements and drive design, development, and delivery of GT materials and processes. The role collaborates with customers, the commercial team, and operations to provide technical leadership in product development and testing, operating independently with minimal supervision.

Essential duties include supporting external customers and internal teams, generating design proposals, mentoring staff, and advancing