Imperial Recruitment Group are delighted to announce that we are working with one of our high-profile clients to appoint a new Design & Development Engineer. This position has responsibility for the development and design of both new and existing plastic products.
Job Title: Design & Development Engineer
Salary: Competitive
Hours: General business hours Monday - Friday
Location: Newton Aycliffe
The key responsibilities are:
- Design solutions for new products development within the given framework of all on site development activities.
- Provide expert assistance on thermoplastic extrusion. This includes promote the technology and performing specific project responsibilities.
- Lead trials, mainly in extrusion, in support of customers and internal development works, creating prototypes, analysing test data and document results in test reports.
- Foster strong collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure integration of innovation initiatives and product development process.
- Act as project leader on new product development collaborating with cross-functional teams and following new product development from concept to production release.
- Staying up to date with advancements in material technology and industry trends and incorporating new technologies into the production process as appropriate. With the material choice proposed, able to meet our environmental, mechanical and sealing performance requirements.
- Organize project meetings, define project deliverables, monitor timelines and resources whilst reporting and challenging deviations.
- To validate new designs, processes, and materials through testing, experimentation, and evaluation.
- Define product functional analysis (based on standards) to translate customer specifications and internal requirements into clear product performance criteria.
- Produce written reports and make presentations to the internal team and customers.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's or master's degree or equivalent in polymer engineering, materials science, or a related field
- Strong understanding of polymer science and technology, with a focus on thermoplastic elastomers extrusion processes.
- Demonstrable experience in the plastics industry and time served in an Engineering discipline
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to support multiple projects to achieve desired goals.
- Project Management, capacity to follow the innovative projects and new projects development request.
- Demonstrate a spirit of innovation, a willingness to suggest and the ability to support the implementation of modifications of existing equipment and processes.
- Flexibility in work assignments to accommodate group and personal goals.
- Proactive in learning about new and existing technologies.
- Strong design and prototyping skills, including experience with computer-aided design (CAD) software.
An awareness of the environmental impact of design ideas. For more information on this fantastic opportunity please contact Adam Pearson at Imperial Recruitment Group.