Role: Design Engineer

Location: Desford

Contract Length: 12 Months

Salary: £50,000 to £55,000

The role

As a Design Engineer in the BCP Attachments (Work Tools) team, you will need a strong entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to grow your business acumen. The incumbent must have the willingness to learn our customer's business and develop innovative solutions to meet their needs. You will support multiple simultaneous projects to improve product reliability and customer satisfaction with global product group responsibilities. The successful candidate's responsibilities will include but are not limited to: designing new fabrications and hydromechanical attachments; creating/releasing drawings; working with our analysis team and interpreting FEA results; evaluating testbed, prove design and pilot builds to support new product introduction programs through various gateways. This position will be product group focused supporting SSL/MTL and reporting to the BCP Loader Work Tool Manager.

Key Responsibilities

• Will be supporting team development of ground engaging equipment (buckets, forks and other material handling devices)
• Support the design and analysis of market growth opportunities on an OPACC-bias.
• Develop innovative solutions to solve customer problems
• Support NPI programs to introduce a new solution to the marketplace
• Design, fit-up, test and tune new solutions
• Develop and execute a validation plan to introduce a product that achieves reliability targets.
• Utilize NPI and accelerated NPI processes to support a cross functional team from concept to production (GW1 - GW7) working with process partners to create and on occasion present materials.
• Ability to support multiple projects simultaneously.
• Modeling, Detailing, Simulation in Creo (ProE)
• Releasing new designs and current production changes (CPI issue resolution) in Teamcenter UA
• Ability to travel as required to foreign and/or domestic locations

What you'll bring

• Bachelor's Degree in an accredited Engineering or Materials Science curriculum (Desirable)
• 2 - 4 years previous design experience
• 2 - 4 years Creo (ProE) or equivalent CAD system experience
• 2 - 4 years' experience of designing structural fabrications and components
• Strong understanding of NPI process and gateway requirements
• Strong analytical, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with classifications of steel, plastics and other materials
• Product & Application knowledge for SSL, CWL or SWL
• Previous Attachments (Work Tool) product knowledge
• Experience with Pro/E, Teamcenter and Vis MockUp
• Experience with FEA and/or dynamics modeling
• Experience in hydraulic component and/or system design

Randstad Business Support is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.