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Norwich, England, United Kingdom

Great Yarmouth

• Lead Engineer on new product development projects and type approval projects. This involves fully developing the project scope to ensure that no customer requirements are missed, creating a project plan of required.
• Sustaining projects, including renewing or obtaining new type approvals for equipment, which involves effective liaison with manufacturers, system designers, test laboratories and overseeing large scale fire testing..
• Working with the special projects team to modify existing foam hardware equipment to suit customers’ needs. Designing equipment skids, either using parts specified by the customer, or selecting parts myself to meet the.
• Creating technical packs of documents for submission to type approval agencies.
• Working with the technical publications team to create installation manuals, including providing text for the manual and creating diagrams using CAD data.
• Providing remote and in-person technical support to internal customers, sales, customer service, technical services, quality assurance, production and production engineering. Troubleshoot equipment calibration or test.

Ipswich, England, United Kingdom

• Working with a team to design injection molded electrofusion pipe fittings using Autodesk Inventor and ANSYS.
• Full understanding of the injection moulding process, rotomoulding process and the welding of PE components using electrofusion.
• Performing FEA stress analysis and steady state thermal analysis on components using ANSYS.
• Performing pressure testing and welding trials to prove FEA analysis and check parts for conformance with EN and ASME standards.
• Providing technical support to sales and marketing departments and directly to customers, including designing workshop testing scenarios to help solve customer issues.
• Liaising with manufacturers and components suppliers.

Ipswich, United Kingdom

• Designing furniture systems, from concept through to manufacture using Solidworks and AutoCAD.
• Creating bespoke items for clients, checking feasibility, producing drawings and obtaining quotes from manufacturers.
• Responsibility for assigning product coding and creating BOMs for bespoke items.
• Creating an access database to record all special product coding, pricing and BOMs.
• Responsibility for maintaining all manufacturing related paperwork including drawings, models and quotes.
• Regular meetings with senior product engineers from all Teknion worldwide divisions (Canada, Israel & Malaysia) to steer common product development.

B-Eng Computer Aided Engineering, Engineering

Btec Ond Mechanical Engineering