Junior Design Engineer

Overview

As an early-career Design Engineer based at the Redditch plant, you will drive design and development for compressor projects, from initial concepts to production. You’ll define specifications, prepare drawings, and maintain BOMs with guidance from peers. You will support testing procedures and ensure regulatory compliance, while coordinating with production engineering through the build and test phases. This role offers hands-on project work across sustaining, innovation-to-value, and new product design initiatives. You’ll join a collaborative team shaping compressor solutions with measurable impact.

Pay / Benefits

• 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays
• 7% employer pension contribution
• Westfield Health Medical Cash Plan
• Death in Service 4x salary
• Cycle scheme
• Electric Car Scheme After 1 year

Responsibilities

• Interpret product specifications to define design requirements
• Design compressor components and systems to meet requirements
• Perform calculations to ensure compliance with specifications and regulations
• Create test procedures and instructions for evaluating designs
• Interpret test data to confirm regulatory compliance
• Produce technical drawings for manufacture
• Review control logic and control specifications
• Liaise with customers and suppliers on project-related technical meetings
• Support or handle customer requests and corrective actions within project scope
• Coordinate with production engineering as projects progress through production and testing

Key requirements

• Engineering degree or equivalent
• Experience with detailed design drawings or 3D models
• Proficiency in CAD software (3D Inventor and AutoCAD)
• ERP experience (SAP or similar) would be an advantage
• Good organisation, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Manufacturing exposure, particularly machining, fabrication and compressed air systems
• Project management ability and cross-functional interfacing
• Willingness to travel occasionally and be site-based

• Strong organisation
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Collaborative and hands-on approach
• 3D CAD modeling (Inventor, AutoCAD)
• BOM preparation and component/documentation
• Test procedure development and data interpretation

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