Senior Design Engineer

Job description

Intro to the Role

Shape real-world products with early influence, clear impact. As a Senior Design Engineer based in Staffordshire (hybrid, two days on site), you’ll guide concepts into robust, manufacturable products for a well-known UK brand. Expect supplier exposure, meaningful ownership, and travel when it counts. Salary below, plus hybrid working and genuine progression.

Scope of the Role

As a Senior Design Engineer, you’ll add technical judgement early, then own delivery through manufacture. You’ll work with industrial design, suppliers, and stakeholders to reduce risk and move faster.

• Develop products from concept to manufacture.
• Assess feasibility, trade-offs, risk, and delivery routes.
• Produce CAD, drawings, BOMs, and documentation.
• Apply DFM across plastics, metals, and assemblies.
• Engage UK and international suppliers through sampling and pre-production.

Key Skills and Experience Required

• Proven Senior Design Engineer, Product Design Engineer, or Mechanical Design Engineer on physical consumer products.
• End-to-end NPD, from early concept to release.
• Strong DFM judgement, cost/quality trade-offs, supplier collaboration.
• Communicate trade-offs clearly to non-engineers.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and field insight when useful.

Salary and Benefits

• £65,000 – £70,000 basic salary, depending on experience.
• Hybrid working: minimum two days per week in Tamworth.
• UK and international supplier travel when needed.
• Chance to shape engineering process and early decision-making.

You’ll join an established UK manufacturer in bathroom and kitchen fittings, operating where aesthetics, usability, regulation, and reliability meet. It’s a collaborative, changing environment with senior visibility, supplier influence, and the room for a Senior Design Engineer to leave a clear mark.

How to Apply

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Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Staffordshire

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

09-02-2026

Profession type

Design / Fashion

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English