Senior Project Engineer

Summary

The Senior Project Engineer is responsible for creating innovative and commercially attractive designs for new products. Duties include generating new business, creating product designs, working with customers, and ensuring successful product realization into manufacture. Requires strong communication, customer focus, and travel. Candidates should have experience with plastic product design, CAD software, and project management.

Key Responsibilities

• Generate new business in conjunction with the BNL Sales and Marketing department. (Required to conduct technical sales meetings).
• Create new product designs to achieve the required objectives and standards for both BNL and the customer to maximise the probability of success.
• Work directly with external customers and contractors – maintain and contributing to BNL’s professionalism and core values.
• Ensure the successful realisation of BNL product into manufacture. (Concept to SOP).
• Good communication skills. (inc strong presentation skills for face to face meetings, phone and video conferencing. The SPE is expected to lead project group meetings with internal and external teams).
• Culturally aware with a strong customer and quality focus.
• Domestic and international travel as required for regular Sales and Engineering joint customer meetings. (Standard 1 week as and when required or planned, 1 month max for any single period).

Core Requirements/Qualifications/Skills

• Competence of plastic product design using 2D and 3D CAD software (preferably SolidWorks & PDM).
• Competence in the design of small mechanisms or similar.
• Competence in the design of production jigs and fixtures.
• Competence in designing for manufacture, assembly and for quality with skills in failure prevention. (A knowledge of Ansys FEA and Moldflow desirable).
• Practical experience of plastic part design.
• Practical experience of jig and fixture design.
• Practical experience of plastic injection moulding, tool design and material processing.
• Experience in both high volume and batch manufacturing in a technical plastic injection moulding environment.
• Financially astute with the ability to maximise profit through product and process design.
• Knowledge of rolling element bearings and their application.
• Experienced in assessing and managing risk to maximise project success.
• Robust approach to problem solving and project management.
• Knowledge of ISO 9001 and TS16949 Product Realisation Process.
• IT literate.
• Good communication skills.
• Culturally aware with a strong customer and quality focus.
• Team Player