Development Engineer

Sandvik Coromant; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in Johannesburg is seeking a Development Engineer to join their Engineering Department. The role focuses on developing and evaluating new product ideas, collaborating with internal partners, and ensuring product quality. Candidates should have a BEng in Mechanical Engineering, advanced CAD modelling skills, and 3-5 years of experience in sheet metal fabrication. This position offers opportunities for professional growth and a dynamic working environment.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

International working environment

Diversity and inclusion focus

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of CAD experience in sheet metal fabrication.
• Experience in an R&D role preferred.
• Field or lab testing experience required.

Responsibilities

• Develop and evaluate new product ideas and enhancements.
• Collaborate with internal partners and optimize designs for manufacturability.
• Perform engineering calculations and manage product design.

Skills

Advanced CAD modelling

Finite Element Analysis

Test & Measurement

Python programming

Microsoft Office Suite

Education

BEng in Mechanical Engineering

MEng in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Siemens NX

Teamcenter

Solid Edge

Job description

Overview

At Rock Processing, we’re passionate about development and advanced technology, and we always aim to offer the best possible experience for our customers in a sustainable way. It’s a mission that takes commitment, but as an industry leader we aim for nothing but excellence in everything we do.

We are looking for an ambitious and innovative candidate to join our team as our Development Engineer for the Engineering Department.

The role will report into the Engineering R&D Manager and will be based from our offices in Spartan, Kempton Park.

Purpose of the role

To discover, develop and evaluate new product ideas, enhancements to existing products or strategic product extensions, and translates research discoveries into usable and marketable products.

Responsibilities

• Appraises new product ideas to determine their potential to address customer needs and to achieve goals in revenue growth and market share.
• Designs, validates and brings new products to market.
• Specifies precise new product functional requirements; designs, tests and integrates components to produce final designs; and evaluates the design's overall effectiveness, cost, reliability and safety.
• Designs, develops, executes and evaluates fitness-for-use testing, product specifications and process validation plans; creates and reviews material part specifications and bills of materials.
• Collaborates with internal manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers and product specialists to optimize designs for manufacturability.
• Works closely with Manufacturing management to ensure design and manufacturing details follow best practices. This includes making parts easy to assemble, ensuring welding is accessible, checking the availability of steel sections, considering plate bending, and organizing the bill of materials.
• Utilizes CAD (Computer Aided Design) or CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) systems to model new designs and produce detailed engineering drawings.
• Responds to more complex technical questions regarding the organization’s product, system or service.
• Pre-sales activities include analysing customer’s technical needs and suggesting solutions.
• Assists in developing and presenting training material when needed.
• Travels to meet with customers as needed, including taking measurements on-site.
• Ensures that all work conforms to the required in-house modelling and detailing standards.
• Ensures sufficient checking of drawings and BOMs to eliminate NCRs.
• Participates in generating new in-house technical standards and training material.
• Develops and maintains engineering calculations to assist in product design where needed.
• Assists in performing engineering first principle calculations when needed.
• Manages and assists in performing engineering structural integrity and dynamic calculations and conducts test and measurement exercises using advanced technology.
• Checks the designers’ design intent at the initial phase of projects to identify potential weaknesses in the designs.
• ETO and R&D resources can be shared across teams on a case-by-case basis to support both regional and global functions based on workload and agreement between departmental managers.

Qualifications & Experience

• BEng University Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering.
• MEng. University Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering is an advantage.
• 3-5 years of advanced 3D CAD modelling, drafting and FEA experience in sheet metal fabrication industries including welding specifications.
• Good Test & Measurement experience with field or lab testing experience.
• Preferred experience in previous R&D role.
• Proficient in Siemens NX & Teamcenter software packages. Solid Edge and other CAD software are an added benefit.

Other Requirements & Competencies

• Proficient in Python or similar programming language.
• Finite Element Analysis simulation experience.
• Multibody Dynamics simulation experience added benefit.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Fluent in English. Additional languages are an added benefit.
• Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment; adjusting effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements, or cultures.
• Effectively meet customer needs; building productive customer relationships; taking responsibility for customer satisfaction by providing world class engineering support.
• Clearly and succinctly conveying information and ideas to individuals and groups in a variety of situations; communicating in a focused and compelling way that drives others' thoughts and actions. Engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.
• Originating action to improve existing conditions and processes; identifying improvement opportunities; generating ideas and implementing solutions.
• Actively identifying new ideas for learning; regularly creating and taking advantage of learning opportunities; using newly gained knowledge and skill on the job and learning through their application.
• Actively participating as a member of a team to move the team toward the completion of goals.
• Taking prompt action to accomplish objectives; taking action to achieve goals beyond what is required; being proactive.
• Effectively managing one\'s time and resources to ensure that work is completed efficiently and on time.
• To be able to work with numbers and figures and to perform basic arithmetic and data assessment as required to produce logical outcomes.
• To be able to see or compare, or to determine which objects or ideas belong together based on similarities or differences.
• Setting high standards of performance for self and others; taking responsibility and accountability for completing tasks with excellence.

What is in it for you?

• We offer you an interesting role in an international business environment, extraordinary products, great colleagues, and opportunities for your professional development. At Sandvik, we believe that diversity of experience, perspective and background will lead to a better environment for our employees, our business and, thereby, our customers. Visit our stories hub, LinkedIn or Facebook to get to know us better.

Application

Send your application as soon as possible as we will be evaluating candidates continuously, and no later than 06 November 2025.

Read more about Sandvik Group and apply at home.sandvik/career,

About us

• Sandvik Rock Processing is a business area within the Sandvik Group and a leading supplier of equipment, tools, parts, service and solutions for processing rock and minerals in the mining and construction industries. Application areas include crushing and screening, breaking and demolition.