Product Design Engineer
- Recruiter
- Petrie Recruitment
- Location
- Cardiff
- Salary
- circa £34K-£38K
- Posted
- 09 Jul 2015
- Closes
- 06 Aug 2015
- Ref
- PR4068
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Elements: -
• Industrial design through initial concept design, engineering analysis, prototyping, risk assessment and evaluation
• Design, develop and prototype new products to meet functional, customer and manufacturing requirements.
• Production of 3D Computer Aided Design (CAD) & analysis data, detailed engineering drawings, detailed tolerance analyses and technical presentations of electro/mechanical designs to realise the conceptual design as a finished product design suitable for transfer to production
• The translation of concepts into virtual or physical prototypes to allow evaluation and/or testing.
• The industrial design of selected concepts to generate workable engineering solutions to address aesthetic, ergonomic, functional and in house and external manufacturing requirements
• Creation of formal Bill of materials
• Evaluate and document the feasibility, reliability and risk of concepts and / or prototypes through engineering testing and analysis in order to demonstrate that the product performance, safety and cost are consistent with the customer and production requirements
The ideal candidate will have:
• Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate Engineering discipline (Industrial Design) or equivalent with a minimum of 2 years’ experience or (HND) if supported by a minimum of 5 years design office experience
• Good analytical, and mathematical skills
• Understanding of a wide range of engineering technologies used in design and manufacturing
• Knowledge of mechanical design relating particularly to mechanisms
• Highly experienced in SolidWorks 3D CAD system for mechanical product design, capable of producing, analysing and optimising designs in a robust & time bound manner to realise the DFM & DFA requirements of the product