Design Engineer/Draughtsman

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 22 March 2026
LOCATION
Belfast
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
SALARY
£45,000 / year
CATEGORY
Engineering
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SKILLS

AutoCAD Solidworks 3D Parametric Design Steel Fabrication Design for Manufacture Microsoft Office

FULL DESCRIPTION

Design Engineer/Draughtsman

Salary: £35-45K

Design Engineer/Draughtsman – steel fabrication

Are you an Engineer with steel fabrication experience, who can take a project from initial concept and translate it into design and through to manufacture on the shop floor?

Our client, based outside Belfast, is a manufacturer of architectural fabrication such as bespoke balustrades, staircases and architectural walkways and is looking for someone with shop floor experience of steel fabrication (commercial and industrial experience) and who can then translate the client’s brief to the end product. Will suit someone with strong, all-round design experience (construction sector would be an advantage). Each day will vary based on the current projects being undertaken, but examples of daily tasks include:

  • Design for manufacture. All products being designed have to be feasibly manufactured in house.
  • Maintaining correspondence with the operators on the shop floor and addressing issues as and when they arrive
  • Detailed parametric modelling of an array of bespoke projects

The Person:

  • High level of proficiency in a 3D Parametric Design Package – AutoCAD & Solidworks preferred.
  • Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office
  • Ability to accept accountability for actions
  • Previous experience in a manufacturing environment.
  • Qualification in an engineering discipline

Benefits:

This role will come with an attractive salary package, based on experience, which will be pitched at a level to attract a high quality candidate. You will be working within a small team to help drive the manufacturing process and design highly bespoke products which will challenge your design creativity. If you feel like the role above is of interest, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

If this is you – please forward your CV (in Word format) to Sean Metrustry – [contact hidden] or for a confidential conversation on this or any other opportunities, please telephone [contact hidden].

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