Graduate Design Engineer Chipping Norton

Owen Mumford is looking to hire an enthusiastic, skilled, and innovative Graduate Design Engineer. As part of the R&D department, you will be working on exciting and challenging projects from conception through to production. You will have the opportunity to experience all aspects of a full medical device design role working alongside Customers, Sales and Marketing, Project Management, Quality, and Manufacturing departments.

Reporting directly to a Principal Design Engineer & Design Team leader or Senior Design Engineer, you will be an integral member of the R&D Team and accountable for development activities within a design project or tasks within Device Research. Please be aware this role is offered full time on a 12 month fixed term contract.

Key Responsibilities:

• Project Work: Delivering project tasks in a timely manner to a high standard with support from Design Engineers and Senior Design Engineers.
• Customer Interaction: Interactions may involve project updates, providing support for engineering changes, collaborating to create product design specifications and user requirement documents.
• Mechanical Design: Supporting the development and engineering of features, components, and assemblies in 3D CAD (SolidWorks). Providing robust and innovative solutions to improve product range.
• Manufacturing Engineering: With guidance from design engineers and senior design engineers; generate new and revised 2D detailed engineering drawings to a high standard with consideration given to manufacturing tolerances, measurement, and controlling design intent.
• Technical Report Writing: Create well-reasoned and thorough technical reports to support engineering analysis, design decisions, test data, research, and technical investigations.
• Product Design: Establish and develop understanding of market, user, and pharmaceutical customer needs. Support all aspects of product design cycle as required.
• Human Factors Engineering: Work alongside Human Factors Specialist with resources available to ensure products are safe in use, intuitive, and effective. Ensure user centred focus is applied to products under development.
• Design Analysis: Assist in analysis of design integrity through analytical methods and laboratory testing.
• Regulatory: Establish, demonstrate, and apply an understanding of appropriate regulatory frameworks throughout product development.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Degree in Biomedical, Medical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering is essential.
• Mechanical design and development of plastic parts for injection moulding.
• Able to create, understand, and develop complex features, components, and assemblies.
• Proficient CAD user (SolidWorks). 3D, 2D, Surfacing.
• Highly computer literate e.g. Excel/Word and PowerPoint.
• Effective team worker, equally able to work on their own.
• Highly self-motivated.
• Strong communication skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.

What will we give you?

You will be joining a successful, privately owned industry leader who are constantly innovating and looking to improve lives, empower patients and relieve the pressure on healthcare professionals. We invest heavily in our staff and offer a competitive salary and benefits package along with the opportunity to develop within the business. Additional benefits include:

• Flexi time – covering 37.5 hours per week with core working hours of 9:30am-12 Noon and 2:00pm-4:00pm (3:30pm on Fridays).
• 25 days annual leave (with the opportunity to earn loyalty days with length of service).
• Company pension scheme with employer contributions.
• Holiday purchase scheme (up to 10 days purchased per holiday year).
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policies.
• Enhanced Sickness Pay.
• BUPA Cash Plan.
• Cycle2Work Scheme.
• Electric Car Scheme.
• Wellbeing initiatives and support.
• Free parking, free tea & coffee.

About us:

Owen Mumford is a global leader in medical device design and manufacture. For over 70 years we have been inventing life-enhancing devices that are tested and proven to deliver an industry benchmark in the safety, accuracy and comfort of medication administration. This strong heritage is the springboard for our future as we help to shape the progress of the healthcare industry by bringing pioneering concepts and solutions to life in an accountable and sustainable way. Headquartered in the UK, Owen Mumford is a global medical device company with an established presence across North America, EMEA and APAC.

Owen Mumford is an equal opportunities employer. We aim to ensure that no candidate or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity. Every job offer is subject to satisfactory references and compliance with vetting requirements applicable to the job role.