Principal Development Engineer

Our client is seeking a Senior Engineer with a mechanical or development engineering focus to join their New Products R&D team. You will be a creative individual, with the ability and passion to break down meaningful problems and provide elegant, validated design solutions. This role encompasses the product design from first concept through to pilot production and will require a keen awareness of time pressures, including strategies for optimising and prioritising requirements to meet deadlines.

Core Responsibilities:
• Crafting innovative concepts to address the technical needs of new products.
•Conducting design feasibility studies; detailing assumptions, calculations, analysis, results and conclusions in technical reports to guide product development.
•Designing and developing new product concepts including system level evaluation through to detailed calculation, design, testing and analysis.
•Supporting and trouble-shooting the introduction of new products into pilot production.

Skills / Experience Required:
• Engineering or Physics degree (or equivalent)
• Experience in precision, high tech or medical device engineering roles, with responsibility for new product technical development
•Mechanics, including statics and dynamics.
•Prototyping and rapid manufacturing technologies.
•Test and development principles, including accuracy, precision, reliability and validity.
•3D CAD design through to manufacture of prototypes.
•Knowledge of fluid dynamics and / or injection moulding/polymer technologies is helpful.

You will have the opportunity to join an organisation on the eve of a very exciting future with phenomenal opportunities to build your career.
Our client offers outstanding benefits to include an attractive bonus, generous pension contributions, private healthcare and an excellent starting salary. Based within beautiful, landscaped surroundings with tree-lined walks, water features and a lake, all of which make for a wonderful working environment.

Looking to utilise your skills to really make a difference to humankind?

Then consider joining our team and apply today!