Product Development Engineer

Cardiff
7 months ago
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Product Development Engineer

Cardiff CF14

Commutable from Cardiff, Bridgend, Newport, Caerphilly, Pontyclun, Barry, Penarth, Pontypridd

Benefits:-

10% Bonus
25 Days holiday plus bank holidays rising to 28 with service
Option to buy holiday days
Wellbeing Programme
Health Cash Plan
Pension
Life Assurance
Enhanced Maternity/Paternity
Cycle to Work Scheme
Referral Scheme
Long Service Awards
Free ParkingA Cardiff based, international business are looking to recruit a Product Development Engineer to join a growing team. This business excel in their field and their product has a genuine impact on the end user. The business offer an excellent benefits package including a strong pension contribution, a good bonus and opportunities to go on courses and further professional development. The role is well suited to an engineer coming who with experience in a highly regulated industry with a background in developing products.

Role & Responsibilities:

Take a leading role in the design and adoption of pro-active or reactive changes to existing products, ensuring they remain fit for purpose and suitable for medical devices.
Deliver design change projects in a timely manner, within budget, whilst managing project risk and keeping key stakeholders informed.
Refine concepts through prototyping, functional lab testing and evaluation.
Ensure product designs are fit for purpose, feasible and designed to cost.
Take a lead role in determining sustainability benefits of any new designs or material changes.
Provide input to technical reports and design documentation for internal and external users to review ensuring that the content is accurate and informed.
Provide product design and technical knowledge to activities and business decision making within your specialty area.
Author, review and/or approve documentation, such as test reports, regulatory and NPI documents, design reviews and specification documents.Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

Educated to Degree level in Product Design, Mechanical Engineering, Change Engineering or closely related technical qualification.
Previous experience in a similar product change role, within a manufacturing environment.
Able to demonstrate expertise in understanding user requirements, developing ideas, turning them into concepts and refining them into commercial products.
Able to demonstrate working knowledge of test development and execution, including collection, analysis and statistical interpretation of data.
Experience gained in a highly regulated industry, in a similar role.
Proficient in both 2D and 3D CAD / surface modelling, preferably Solidworks.
Experience in packaging design.26579/610

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