Job Details

Position: Design Engineer

Sector: Manufacturing & Engineering

Location: Barnsley

Salary: 28,000 to 35,000

Shift Pattern: Full-time Monday to Friday

Nicholas Associates (Engineering, Manufacturing & Technical) are recruiting on behalf of a forward thinking manufacturing client for a Design Engineer to join their Engineering Team based from their extremely successful fabrication and manufacturing site in Barnsley.

The Role

Based in Barnsley, the Design Engineer's role and responsibilities will be to:

• Provide hands on design support for the product and part drawings.
• Provision of drawings and specification packs to departments in support improvement projects.
• Liaise with Quality, Purchasing and Suppliers.
• Improve supplier quality performance.
• Lead and facilitate DFM activities

The Person

The successful candidate will have:

• Degree qualified in a relevant Engineering Discipline.
• 2D/3D CAD user experience (ideally Creo Elements/Pro 5.0, AutoCAD 2D and Windchill PDMLink10.0.
• Experience of Robotics and/or other automated manufacturing methods.
• Broad experience of design, manufacturing, and quality engineering including CAD CAM, metal cutting / forming, fabrication, welding, automation / robotics, CNC milling/turning, and finishing technologies.
• Lean Manufacturing principles and process evaluation experience.

The Company

• 30 year old private UK company
• Have achieved sustained sales growth year on year to become one of the world's leading designers and manufacturers in their field.
• Have a vast sales and export network across over 40 countries worldwide, supported by 400 employees in the UK, based across three centres of excellence manufacturing sites

The Package

• 28,000 to 35,000
• Health cover, contributory pension, life insurance, and competitive holiday allowance.

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Key words: Engineering & NPD Manager, New Product Development, Engineering Management, Engineering Project Management, 2D/3D CAD, Creo Elements, Pro 5.0, AutoCAD 2D and Windchill PDMLink10.0, Robotics, Automated manufacturing, Jigs/Fixture design experience, Fabrication, Automation, Process research and development, quality engineering, CAD, CAM, metal cutting, forming, fabrication, welding, automation, robotics, CNC milling/turning, finishing technologies, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Project Management

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