Senior Design Engineer

Overview

In this role you act as the project design authority, delivering technical solutions from customer requirements to validated concepts. You will assess design risks, document trade-offs, and support gate reviews while protecting IP. You’ll collaborate with quality, project management, and publications teams to ensure robust specifications, test plans, and manuals. This is a hands-on senior engineering role with cross-functional impact in a growing, precision-focused business.

Pay / Benefits

• career development
• training and work experiences
• merit-based promotion
• multicultural environment
• focus on safety of employees
• international team of professionals

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with quality to define incoming inspection requirements
• Prepare and present technical reports for gate reviews
• Contribute to planning design activities with the project manager
• Generate design concepts that meet functional requirements from customer specs
• Review and verify design content for project gates and design files
• Identify opportunities to protect IP and develop test plans for verification
• Provide technical support to publications for manuals, build books, and SOPs
• Capture and communicate project technical risks and issues across the lifecycle

Key requirements

• Formal technical qualification to degree level in Mechanical Engineering
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) with stakeholders
• Strong problem-solving ability
• Ability to work effectively in cross-functional project teams
• High attention to detail and highly organized
• Strategic thinking and adaptability
• Experience leading technical projects
• Knowledge of material properties, GD&T (ISO), machining methods, BOM, and MRP/ MSO packages
• CAD proficiency for models and drawings
• Technical knowledge of sensor technologies, electrical drive systems, mechanical transmission, hydraulics, pneumatics, and lubrication
• Experience with packaging machinery is desirable

• communication
• problem solving
• team collaboration
• CAD systems (design modelling and drawings)
• GD&T and ISO standards
• machining methods

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