Design Engineer

Location United Kingdom
Salary Competitive
Job type Permanent
Discipline Design, Engineering & Technical, Design
Reference J9488 - 1

We have a fantastic opportunity to join a leading company who design and build high-performance small crafts for the leisure marine industry, located in South East England.

General Description:

  • Being a proactive member of a small technical department, you will possess a strong underlying technical ability together with a comprehensive understanding of manufacturing processes and procedures common in automotive and Marine industry sectors. These skills will enable you to contribute to the design and development of products on a project driven basis and provide support to a busy assembly line operation.

  • A “hands – on” approach to problem solving will enable you to identify and become involved with product / production line improvements.

  • Your motivation will be the desire to contribute to and further develop world class-leading products.


Main Duties:

  • Lead development projects as instructed by management.

  • Provide technical support to production and sales departments.

  • Liaise on technical matters with component suppliers.

  • Produce, maintain and manage technical assembly and manufacturing drawings.

  • Assist management in decisions relating to design and development.

  • Involvement in product on-water testing.

  • Assist in the building and testing of prototypes from concept to pre-production stage.

  • Production and control of BOM’s

  • Assist with further integration of Tender Launch Systems into OEM applications and liaise with their design offices on tender garage design.


Qualifications and Experience

  • Formal Engineering education to degree standard and at least two years’ experience in an Engineering role.

  • Advanced skills in 3D CAD (NX preferable).

  • Experience of designing to ISO Standards.

  • Experience working with SME production lines.

  • Understanding of a wide range of manufacturing processes common to automotive and marine industries.

  • Familiarisation with various moulding techniques/ laminate schedules is an advantage.

  • Understanding of general marine engineering and electrical systems an advantage.


If you'd like to learn more about this exciting opportunity, please apply and call Sam on 02381 680 501 OR email sam.farrimond@marineresources.co.uk

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