CAD ENGINEER / DESIGN TECHNICIAN - Candidate Source Ltd : Job Details

This friendly, local business offers an excellent basic salary and benefits including a bi-monthly company bonus, 28 days (including bank holidays) annual holiday with a time served accrual system, pension, life insurance, and enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave and company sick pay schemes after a qualifying period.  What’s more, they genuinely care about their staff, the environment, and the local community.They specialise in the manufacture, global distribution, installation and aftersales service of physical security products and are at a very exciting stage in their evolution, investing heavily in in-house expertise and engineering capabilities. They are now looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, CAD Engineer/Design Technician to join their small team which has responsibility for designing new solutions for in house and outsourced production.The role will involve preparing drawings and renders for customer approval, as well as manufacturing and layout drawings for use by in-house fabricators and 3rd party suppliers. In addition to this you will be working closely with the Research and Development team to help create new products and with the Projects team to create bespoke, customer specific solutions.  Regular duties will involve: 

• Producing 2D layouts, 3D models and renders for customer quotations & tenders.
• Producing manufacturing drawings for in-house fabrication and outsourcing.
• Producing technical drawings for use in marketing materials.
• Producing bill of material and component lists for procurement.
• Interpreting survey data to produce custom, site specific solutions.
• Work with the R&D team to reduce production costs of existing products and create new product ideas (including prototypes).
• Liaising with colleagues to ensure components are suitable for manufacture and final production matches the original drawings.
• Providing technical support to colleagues in Sales and Project teams to answer customer queries.

To be successful, you must: 

• Have solid and demonstrable experience in a similar CAD engineering role with the ability to produce 2D and 3D drawings and 3D models and renders.
• Be proficient CAD software including AutoCAD and Solid Works.
• Have demonstrable experience of fabrication (especially sheet metal) and construction
• Experience or interest in prototyping and modelling would be a benefit.
• Have strong organisational and problem-solving skills.
• Be a great communicator.

Due to the confidential nature of their business and the privacy needs of customers and end users, this role will require the successful candidate to provide an acceptable DBS check.Candidate Source Ltd is an advertising agency. Once you have submitted your application it will be passed to the third party Recruiter who is responsible for processing your application. This will include holding and sharing your personal data, our legal basis for this is legitimate interest subject to your declared interest in a job. Our privacy policy can be found on our website and we can be contacted to confirm who your application has been forwarded to.