Contract Design Engineer

Company: SF Partners
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Location: Hinckley
Job Description:

Contract Design Engineer Hinckley £46.00 P/ hr (Inside IR35) On site

A Design Engineer will take responsibility of the delivery of the Design and Development of a number of components. Ensuring that these parts are delivered to the time, cost, quality, and specification constraints set out.

Duties and Responsibilities:

– Responsible for the delivery of the Design and Development of a number of components, consulting with and seeking support from Specialists and Chief Engineers as required.

– Responsible for delivering these components to the time, cost, quality, and specification in line with the NMIP process and KPI’s.

– The role is a highly technical role, focussed on detail and delivery.

– Communicate and collaborate across the entire supply/value chain to maximise team working and effectiveness.

– Contribute to the creation and maintenance of detailed project plans to ensure that current and future deliverables are met to promise.

– Deliver to the key KPI’s asked of the role that will be driven from Cost, Time, Quality and Specification targets.

– Follow established processes, procedures and working practices to minimise risk to projects and products, but also challenge these to maximise the effectiveness of the Department.

– Escalate concerns, risks, and issues up through the reporting chain.

– To undertake and assist with projects as required by your Manager.

– Any other ad-hoc duties as required by your Manager.

Person Specification:

For this vacancy specifically, we are also considering a greater test support focus, where the Creo experience can be a nice to have and the following are of greater importance:

– Engineering background, preferably automotive and powertrain. – Organising and liaising with other departments to update / prep bikes or Engines for testing. – Organise parts to be modified for test requirements. – Organising and liaising with other departments for testing. – Analyse test results and appraise against procedure pass criteria. – Propose solutions to not passed tests in conjunction with the relevant teams / departments around the company and Subject Matter Experts. – Write engineering reports to justify test passes. – Organise and present in reviews of results / reports with Subject Matter Experts and Chief Engineer. – Support providing solutions for build issues raised by other departments on part issues or build instructions.

Posted: March 30th, 2026