Design / Mechanical Engineer

Our Global client is looking for a Design Engineer or Mechanical Engineer, for an initial 6 months contract, who has experience with Electronic Consumer Goods experience.

The role will include:

• Interpreting design drawings for design for manufacturing (DFM)
• Managing improvement projects/changes for manufacturability, cost reduction, complexity reduction, material selection or consumer complaint reduction.
• Reviewing the design of new products based on best design principles
• Ensure that all improvements have been thoroughly tested and robust design verification plans are in place
• Review and perform defective product investigations and establish root cause
• Working with third-party designers to ensure all performance, visual and regulatory specifications are properly described and understood
• Ensuring all specification and regulation requirements are captured for all markets during commercialisation handover and as new markets and continuous development changes are introduced
• Implement and monitor manufacturing KPIs to ensure design and manufacturing capabilities are met and maintained.
• Pro-actively introduce new design developments to maintain capability, yields, cost, specification and regulatory requirements.
• Create reports and learning documents for future design improvements.

Accountabilities

• Product Reliability
• Product Manufacturability
• Product Cost
• Performance specification acceptance
• Continuous improvement activities
• Risk analysis and mitigation
• Validation of new products

Essential Skills

• 3D CAD experience. SolidWorks preferable
• Tolerance Stack analysis
• APQP
• DFMEA / FMEA analysis
• 8D / DPI analysis
• DFM
• Route Cause analysis and problem solving
• Capability Analysis Review (CPK/PPK)
• Operational stress and temperature analysis
• Materials choice for manufacturability, operational performance and environmental concerns
• Validation planning through an appropriate model
• Experience with hand-held consumer electronics
• Experience with plastic injection moulding
• Minimum 5yrs industry experience
• Working directly with suppliers / manufacturers onsite and remotely.

Nice to have but not essential

• Experience with Li-ion battery failure modes
• Statistical analysis (6-sigma) and Continuous Improvement planning
• Cost-benefit-analysis (CBA) and Return-on-investment (ROI) justification reporting
• Electronics and battery encapsulation
• KPI definition and dashboard creation