Design & Development Engineer

Design & Development Engineer

Baltic Recruitment are delighted to be supporting an established, market‑leading manufacturing business with their search for a Design & Development Engineer. This is an excellent opportunity for an innovative and driven engineering professional to play a key role in the design, development, and improvement of products within a highly respected organisation.

Job Type: Permanent

Job Location: County Durham, Newton Aycliffe

Key Duties:

• Design solutions for new products development within the given framework of all on site development.
• Provide expert assistance on thermoplastic extrusion. This includes promoting the technology and performing specific project responsibilities.
• Lead trials, mainly in extrusion, in support of customers and internal development works, creating prototypes, analysing test data and documenting results in test reports.
• Foster strong collaboration with cross‑functional teams to ensure integration of innovation initiatives and product development process.
• Act as project leader on new product development collaborating with cross‑functional teams and following new product development from concept to production release.
• Stay up to date with advancements in material technology and industry trends and incorporate new technologies into the production process as appropriate, ensuring environmental, mechanical and performance requirements are met.
• Organise project meetings, define project deliverables, monitor timelines and resources while reporting and challenging deviations.
• Validate new designs, processes and materials through testing, experimentation and evaluation.
• Define product functional analysis (based on standards) to translate customer specifications and internal requirements into clear product performance criteria.
• Produce written reports and make presentations to the internal team and customers.

Key Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree or equivalent in polymer engineering, materials science or a related field.
• Strong understanding of polymer science and technology, with a focus on thermoplastic elastomers extrusion processes.
• Strong design and prototyping skills, including experience with computer‑aided design (CAD) software.
• Ability to support multiple projects to achieve desired results.
• Project management capacity to follow innovative projects and new product development.

The Package:

• £45,000.00 per annum.
• Dayshift – 40 hrs / week.
• Salary Sacrifice pension to 7%.
• EAP.
• Life Assurance x 4.

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