Design Engineer in Chalgrove

The Company is an innovative market leader in the design and development of highly engineered and customised systems within the 3D printing industry. The company is at the forefront of the design and development of extrusion systems and has a strong product portfolio selling into both B2B and B2C markets. The company contracts the manufacture of their components worldwide and performs quality control, warehousing, assembly, and dispatch on site in Oxfordshire. E3D is an equal opportunities employer.

Core Values

• Team E3D – We are open, honest, humble, helpful, have fun, communicate & work positively as a team.
• Development – Developing people, technology, relationships, products.
• Engaged – We engage in what we do and why we do it.
• Delivery – We deliver on our promises and commitments.

The Role

Permanent Location – Chalgrove, Oxfordshire. This role is based full-time onsite.

Main purpose of the job

This role within the engineering team is responsible for the design, testing and roll out of new products within the space of additive manufacturing hardware. This will cover the whole new product development cycle, from coming up with concepts, detailed design work, DFMEA, prototyping, testing and ultimately helping scale up for volume production working with the quality, production and marketing teams.

Who you are responsible to:

This role reports to Principal Design Engineer.

Main tasks of the job

• Carry out detailed design work including 3D modelling, simulation (e.g. thermal & stress) and design verification testing, as required.
• Responsible for the day-to-day running of the technical aspects of development projects under the supervision of senior engineers.
• Creation and approval of technical reports and documentation as required.
• Be the day-to-day point of contact between engineering and other departments for development projects.
• Ensure design files and information are kept up to date and stored in accordance with departmental procedures.
• Keep up to date with the latest manufacturing techniques and drawing standards.
• Work closely with operations, manufacturing and production engineers to ensure products are designed for manufacture and assembly.

The above is not an exhaustive list of duties and you will be expected to perform different tasks as necessitated by your changing role within the organisation and the overall business objectives of the organisation.

Essential skills and experience

• Engineering Degree or equivalent knowledge.
• Proficiency with CAD, ideally SolidWorks.
• Experience with FDM 3D printing.

Desirable skills and experience

• Experience in a prototyping workshop, making / modifying prototypes and test jigs.
• Experience with 3D printer firmware such as Klipper or Marlin.
• Project Management Experience collaborating with other departments such as; production, quality, purchasing and marketing.

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits package including:

• 25 days holidays per year (increasing to 28 days after 5 years’ continuous service) plus public/bank holidays.
• £200 health & wellbeing allowance.
• An Employee Assistance Programme and virtual wellbeing.
• Life assurance.
• Company sick pay.
• Company family-friendly leave pay.
• 24/7 virtual GP, second medical opinion and mental health support.
• Bereavement counselling and probate helpline.