Our clients are truly experts in injection moulding, specialising in tooling, precision plastic injection mouldings and product development engineering.
Since 1965, innovation and high-quality standards have been at the heart of what they do, allowing the family-owned business to gain knowledge and experience from around the globe.
From their head office in Cambridgeshire, they operate on a global scale with facilities across the UK, Lithuania and China.
This gives them the flexibility to offer a tailor-made approach to the specific requirements of their customers, no matter whether the product design requirements are high volume, highly aesthetic, or technically challenging.
As a full-service company, they offer design, printing, welding and assembly services alongside injection moulding, tooling and product development services, saving you money and increasing the project’s efficiency at the same time.
Due to continued success and expansion they are looking to recruit a new Project Design Manager to join the Engineering Team and support the Technical Director.
Job Purpose:
To manage all aspects of design related projects to ensure they are brought in on time.
To ensure all design projects are reviewed and where possible designed with circularity / tooling / production processes in mind.
To manage Designers Day to day.
To contribute as a designer.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
To comply with all Health and Safety at Work requirements as determined by company policy.
- Manage design projects ensuring products are designed to the correct standards e.g EN / BIFMA etc.
- Manage design project lead times to ensure work is completed in a timely manner.
- Manage the Design team holding annual reviews.
- Liaising with all key stakeholders and representing RGE to external customers with projects and designs.
- Carry out regular project reviews and updates internally.
- To hold and minute a bi weekly design meeting.
- Organise and participate in engineering technical reviews with customers
- Delegate purchasing tasks when required on samples for design projects.
- Be the design project focal point.
- To design components and assemblies using SolidWorks.
- To help advise designers on designs / design for tooling / design for manufacturing.
- Work with tooling and production to ensure components are designed in the most efficient way for quality and cycle times.
- Support customer new tooling design and development projects alongside sales, tooling and design departments.
- Attend tool trials as and when needed.
- Undertake any other duties as necessary to fulfil the needs of the job and its objectives as and when requested by your line manager.
- To work from any of the sites as and when needed as agreed with direct manager.
- To be based at Alconbury.
The candidate:
You will be an experienced and time served Project Design Manager. Someone who is able to manage a diverse workload and fulfill the expectations of clients both internal and external.
You will be efficient in your planning and costings and able to set and meet KPIs to keep on top of design projects.
You will have an expectation to look for areas of innovation and continuous improvement.
The job is based in Alconbury, PE28 4JH
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