Certain Advantage
Principal Design Engineer
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Principal Design Engineer
Leeds area, UK
Virtual interview
Mon–Fri
Certain Advantage is partnering with a key client to recruit a Principal Design Engineer. You will lead a design team, ensuring effective handover from simulation to design and technical leadership of continuous improvement initiatives for non-conformance.
What will you be doing?
- Lead and line manage the team, coordinating workloads, resolving issues, and ensuring delivery against timescales, KPIs, and customer requirements.
- Develop team capability through performance management and targeted support to maintain high standards.
- Lead complex, high-value projects, delivering innovative, technically advanced solutions and providing expert guidance.
- Operate with a high degree of autonomy, making informed decisions within organisational and client frameworks.
- Drive quality in simulation deliverables and lead continuous improvement initiatives within the delivery stream.
- Manage non-conformance, implementing corrective actions and process improvements.
- Contribute to engineering strategy, best practices, and process development to enhance operational performance.
- Define and capture design requirements, ensuring clarity and alignment throughout delivery.
- Lead internal and external design reviews, securing client acceptance of designs.
- Provide expert technical support in mechanical engineering across projects.
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A couple of things you should know:
- Proficient in the design of transmission systems, gears, and gearboxes.
- Experienced in producing mechanical specifications, scopes of work, calculations, drawings, and schedules.
- Analyse and resolve complex design issues, identifying root causes and implementing effective solutions.
- Iterate and refine designs through testing and analysis to ensure compliance with specifications.
- Manage and track design changes to existing products.
- Prepare technical reports and present progress to project teams and clients.
- Working knowledge of key design tools, including Solid Edge, Siemens NX, and AutoCAD.
- Confident in chairing design review meetings.
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During an interview, you may be asked about:
- Your knowledge of quality management systems and industry standards (e.g., AS9100, ISO 9001)
- Your experience in the heavy engineering industry, power transmission systems, gears and gearboxes
Sounds like you? Apply now or WhatsApp/ring Lukas - 07912 465 208 / 0161 519 8368
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