Product Design Engineer

Product design for the Truwo Products line — a consumer range in development. You will take objects from first sketch to production drawing, working with the Head of Product Engineering and the founder, and you will own the design through tooling, pilot build and launch.

What you will do

• Concept development: sketches, form studies, quick physical mock-ups.
• Detailed mechanical design in parametric CAD, with full drawing packages and GD&T.
• Design for manufacture: material selection, tolerance analysis, tooling review with suppliers.
• Prototype builds and validation: test plans, fixtures, measurement, iteration.
• Supplier engagement for tooling and first-article parts; review of samples against drawing.
• Documentation that a factory can build from without you in the room.

What you bring

The minimum. Without these the role will be hard to do well.

• A mechanical engineering degree, or equivalent evidence.
• Fluency in the common CAD tools — SolidWorks, Fusion or NX — for 3D modelling and 2D drafting with GD&T.
• Proficiency in static stress analysis: loading scenarios, deflection theory, and the FEA workflows that go with them.
• Understanding of, and hands-on exposure to, prototyping techniques for metals and plastics.
• Awareness of DFx for plastic moulding, sheet metal, metal casting and plastic assemblies.
• At least one physical product taken through tooling to production, in any category.
• A portfolio that shows how you think, not only what you drew.
• The habit of finishing — the last five percent of a design is where most of the quality lives.
• An appetite for hard problems and for getting products into the hands of the people who use them.
• Some travel — around 10–15%, to suppliers and tooling shops when a part is being made.

Good to have

Recommended, not required. Tell us which of these you have.

• Converting free-form or organic surfaces into engineering models.
• Tolerance stack-up — worst-case and RSS — for 2D layouts.
• Experience working alongside industrial designers on product development.
• Dynamic event simulation and modal analysis.
• Fatigue-life theory, and designing HALT set-ups and evaluating their results.

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