Lead applications Engineer February 27, 2025

JEC Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering solutions company in Manchester is seeking an innovative Product Engineer to engage with customers and design bespoke fluid handling products. Candidates should have strong experience in design validation and a knowledge of relevant materials and fluid dynamics. This role involves close collaboration with technical teams and may require travel to UK sites and Romania.

Qualifications

• Understanding of bespoke product design requirements.
• Experience in leadership roles during design validation.
• Knowledge of materials and fluid dynamics.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers to understand design requirements.
• Design and develop fluid handling products.
• Conduct design validation activities such as stress calculations.
• Support sales and marketing with presentations and communications.

Skills

Customer engagement

Design validation

Finite Element Analysis (FEA)

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

Job description

Industry Sector(s): Aerospace, Medical & Prosthetics, Oil & Gas

Spoken Language(s): English

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers during various phases of the sales cycle to deeply understand their specific design requirements and provide them with class-leading solutions.
• Design and develop bespoke fluid handling products alongside the product manager and in line with product line strategy.
• Take a leadership role in design validation and qualification testing, planning research and development efforts, and managing sub-contracted resources.
• Work closely with internal and customer engineers/technical teams to help optimise material and design elements needed for optimum sealing conditions such as: lubricant, materials, fluid level, shaft and housing hardness, surface finish, tolerance, chamfer, eccentricity, etc.
• Closely work with R&D team to support developing new materials and formulations.
• Conduct comprehensive design validation activities for valves, including stress calculations, tolerance stack-up analysis, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), and other relevant design validation methodologies.
• Support sales and marketing functions with product specific presentations and communications, either through on-line webinars or customer visits.
• Manage all aspects of product life, including factory awareness of customer feedback and requirements.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
• The role may require travel to and from all UK sites, and Romania.
• To carry out any additional work as reasonably requested by your line manager.