Design Engineer – Relocate to the Lake District 

Design Engineer – Relocate to the Lake District 
Ulverston, Cumbria 

Want to progress your career as a Design Engineer with a highly-respected and long-established company? Are you up for the challenge of designing unique lighting solutions for real applications? If so, read on. 

The Company: 

Operating at the cutting edge of lighting solutions, our client is an expert designer, manufacturer and supplier of value-added LED solutions. 

This is an amazing opportunity to join them as a Design Engineer and enhance your existing industry experience as part of a talented team. 

The Benefits: 

- Salary of up to £38,000 DOE 
- Team-oriented and friendly work environment 
- Excellent training 
- Flexible working hours 
- See your work come to fruition, from concept right through to customer delivery 
- Beautiful location with excellent transport links 
- Develop your career with a market-leading business that’s increasing their product design rate 

With 25 years of success, our client has built quite the name for themselves in their industry. They are trend setters in the world of LED lighting, have a track record for designing world-leading products and have even won a Queen’s Award for their innovations. 

Our client will provide you with plenty of variety, interesting challenges, on-the-job training and support and the chance to take new product designs from concept through to prototype and volume production. 

If the above wasn’t enough to pique your interest, our client’s location offers a great life/work balance, as you can walk right out of work and into the stunning Lake District. With its open spaces, bustling towns, festivals and huge numbers of pubs, restaurants and clubs, the opportunities for both adventure and leisure are immense. 

So, if you’re looking for the chance to learn, grow and make a real impact on a successful company’s product range, our client would love to hear from you. 

The Role: 

As a Design Engineer, you’ll support the development of our client’s LED lighting products. 

Joining a small, close-knit Engineering Team, your duties will involve: 

- The hands-on mechanical and electrical/electronic design of LED lighting products 
- LED optical system design, including custom LED optics 
- LED thermal system design, including custom LED cooling solutions 
- Working to timescales and designing to cost 
- Electronics design, PCB design and prototyping 
- Full product lifecycle design, from concept though to volume manufacture 
- Analysis of customer products and report writing for customers 
- Enhancing your LED component and LED industry knowledge 

About You: 

To be considered, you’ll need: 

- Practical experience of manufacturing electronic products 
- Excellent IT skills, including proficiency in 3D CAD software 
- The ability to develop a strong understanding of our client’s technical products 
- An enthusiastic approach 
- The ability to work well under pressure 

Our client is also eager to hear from junior engineers looking to take their next step up. 

A degree level qualification in an engineering or applied science discipline (or equivalent) would be beneficial to your application. 

Other companies may call this role Design Engineer, LED Design Engineer, Electronic Manufacturing Engineer, Product Development Engineer or Product Design Engineer. 

Those with experience as a Mechanical Design Technician, Electrical Design Technician or NPD Engineer are also encouraged to apply. 

Webrecruit and our clients are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be. 

So, if you’re seeking your next step as a Design Engineer, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency. 

Working hours: 37 hours per week, Monday – Friday