Commercial Design Engineer
Alexander Technologies, Inc.
Location
Peterlee, County Durham | United Kingdom
Job description
Job Title: Commercial Design Engineer
Department: Sales
Reporting to: Principal Design Engineer
Responsible for: NA
Band: C
Scope of the Role
Forming part of the core technical team within a growing custom battery manufacturer, you will work across battery pack conceptualisation, technical proposal creation & development and project delivery.
Custom portable power solutions are a developing area of technology with several unique technical challenges, this isn’t a typical “business as usual” role. You will be working with new technology, which is increasingly important in the current global climate, working with state-of-the-art lithium-ion battery cells, innovative mechanical and thermal management solutions.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
The below list is not exhaustive, but the main duties and responsibilities will be:
- Work with Sales, Marketing, Principal Design Engineer, and Engineering to interpret customer requirements, define product specifications and write commercial customer proposals for new projects.
- Generate initial compliance matrices against customer requirements.
- Generate concept models to customer specifications.
- Liaise with Purchasing to create initial Bills of Materials for costing and manufacturing purposes.
- Provide technical input into product manuals and data sheets.
- Review and check vendor documentation for mechanical & electronic compliance with project specifications while considering commercial requirements.
- Ensure design risks are considered and input to design risk assessments. Communicate residual design risks to others.
- Develop and maintain relationships with relevant technical consultants and suppliers.
- Develop and maintain personal expertise and knowledge to ensure that the business stream is at the forefront of the industry.
- Support battery design during New Product Introduction process where required.
Knowledge, Skills, and Behaviours
The postholder will possess a range of the following knowledge, skills, and behaviours:
- Degree in Mechanical Design Engineering or equivalent qualification
- Experience working on electrical systems
- Experience taking a commercially aware approach to technical problem solving.
- Experience with SolidWorks 2002 professional modelling software.
- Mechanical design experience working with electrical systems – batteries would be ideal but not a must.
- Experience with collaboration and building relationships with customers, suppliers, engineers, and project teams to deliver cost effective and acceptable engineering solutions.
- General understanding of codes of practice and other regulatory material, not necessarily industry specific.
- Possess the ability to look beyond the immediate design task to see how design decisions interact with the complete system.
- Detail oriented with excellent verbal, written and presentation skills.
- Lateral thinking with the ability to provide realistic and innovative design solutions.
Core Soft Skills
The postholder will be required to demonstrate the following key core soft skills for their band:
- Possess a clear enthusiasm and drive for new technologies.
- Self-motivation with a high degree of creativity and initiative.
Important Notice to Recruitment Agencies
Alexander Battery Technologies (ABT) is committed to sourcing candidates directly and, as such it does not accept speculative CVs from agencies.
ABT only pays agency fees where it has a signed agreement in place and an agency has been instructed by a member of ABT’s HR Department.
All speculative CVs shall be considered a ‘gift’ to ABT.
ABT does not pay agency fees of any nature where speculative and/or unsolicited CVs are submitted to either ABT or any of its employees.
ABT reserve the right to subsequently contact the candidate to whom any speculative CV relates, initiates discussions and/or appoints that candidate to a position (whether directly or through another agency) without payment of any agency fee whatsoever.
Submission of any unsolicited CV’s and/or proposals to ABT by an agency will be deemed evidence of full unlimited acceptance of this agency policy to the exclusion of any terms or conditions which may be put forward by that agency at any time.
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