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CMF Engineer – Bespoke Automotive
📍 Berkshire 🏎️ Low-Volume | High-Value Automotive Engineering 💼 Permanent | Full-Time
Do you have a passion for colour, materials, finishes and beautifully engineered products? Would you like to see your CMF decisions taken from concept and samples through to the finished physical product? Want to work on highly bespoke vehicles created for an international, Ultra High Net Worth client base?
I’m supporting a highly regarded bespoke automotive engineering business in the recruitment of a CMF Engineer.
The organisation creates exceptional, low-volume vehicles that combine advanced engineering with traditional craftsmanship and an obsessive attention to detail. Each product is highly individual, with significant emphasis placed on materials, colour, finish and the overall customer specification.
This is an opportunity to sit at the intersection of Design, Engineering, Production, Suppliers and Clients, helping turn the creative CMF vision into something that can be manufactured and delivered to an exceptional standard.
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You'll support CMF delivery across interior, exterior and individual component applications – taking high-level design direction and translating it into practical specifications, samples, material selections and production-ready solutions.
What You'll Be Doing
- Translate CMF direction into practical specifications, material palettes, sample boards and production standards.
- Source and develop colours, materials and finishes alongside specialist suppliers.
- Work with Design and Engineering to balance aesthetic intent with quality, functionality and manufacturability.
- Support client specification discussions, presenting options and helping turn individual ideas into achievable solutions.
- Review samples and first-off components, working with production teams to ensure the finished product delivers the intended quality.
What We're Looking For
- Experience within CMF, materials, product design, interiors or a closely related discipline.
- Strong understanding of physical materials, colours, textures and surface finishes with exceptional attention to detail.
- Comfortable working directly with suppliers, designers, engineers, production teams and clients.
- Commercial understanding of cost, lead times and manufacturability within a low-volume environment.
- Passion for premium products, craftsmanship and creating exceptional physical products.
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Experience with leather, textiles, paints, coatings, metals, trim or specialist surface finishes would be particularly relevant. Candidates could come from automotive, luxury products, aviation, marine, furniture, fashion or other highly tactile design-led industries.
Why Consider It?
This isn't a role where your work disappears into a CAD model or presentation.
You'll be hands-on with materials, samples, components and finished products, working closely with the people physically creating them.
You'll join a passionate, collaborative team working on genuinely exceptional, individually specified products where colour, material, finish and craftsmanship are fundamental to the customer experience.
Interested? Apply or contact me directly for a confidential conversation.
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