Design Engineer Jobs in the United Kingdom
A.P.D. Alarms Limited
£34000 - £37000 YEAR
Coventry, England
Due to continued growth, we are seeking a skilled Alarm Engineer to join our team to predominately cover our customers in Tamworth, Nuneaton, Hinckley, Coventry and Warwick areas, with occasional travel further afield. As a Fire & Security Engineer, you will play a crucial role in maintaining fire protection and security systems for our customers.
Johnson Controls International
Norfolk, ANGL
Comprehensive benefits package including 7% match pension, free life assurance, employee assistance program, employee referral scheme, employee discounts including high street brands, cycle 2 work scheme and discount on Johnson Controls security products. Johnson Controls is a global diversified technology and multi-industrial leader serving a wide range of customers in more than 150 countries.
Johnson Controls International
Basildon, HC
Our team works on a diverse range of projects, including OPVs, Mine Hunters, Submarines, and Aircraft Carriers, across various countries. Innovation: Identify new products or technologies that give Johnson Controls a market edge and propose alternative design philosophies to reduce energy consumption and costs.
Expert Employment
£42000 - £57000 Per Year
Cheltenham, SW
Mechanical Valve Design and Development Engineer required to join growing monopropellants team working on Fluidic Controls on the design, development and industrialisation fluidic control solutions for space propulsion. Structural analysis using FE software, static and dynamic analysis justifying designs for launch vibration and fluid pressure tolerance.
AWE
£37860 Per Year
Reading, HC
We also have opportunities for EC&I Design Engineers who are interested in pursuing this as a long-term career goal, working alongside our experts to benefit from their wealth of knowledge and experience as we help you develop through your career. Contribute to the delivery of conceptual designs, detail designs, manufacturing specifications, operational documentation and validation evidence for mechanical engineering solutions in relation to defined requirements.
Expert Employment
£34000 - £52000 Per Year
Cookstown, N Ireland
Control Panel Design Engineer required to join an Electrical Design Team working on power distribution and control system designs for industrial applications. Prepare detailed electrical design and general arrangement drawings for the manufacture of motor control and power distribution panels.
Johnson Controls International
Birmingham, MID
Comprehensive benefits package including pension, life assurance, employee assistance program, employee referral scheme, employee discounts including high street brands, cycle 2 work scheme and discount on Johnson Controls security products. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey technical information to a non-technical audience.
Wallace Hind Selection
£35000 - £40000 Per Year
Wrexham, WA
It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: Mechanical Engineer, Mechanical Design Engineer, Design Engineer, CAD Technician, CAD Draughtsperson - Automation, Factory Automation, Electronics, Electrical Equipment, Printers, Scanners . COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: You could live in Wrexham, Chester, Deeside, Oswestry, Ellesmere, Whitchurch, Crewe, Shrewsbury, Mold, Rhyl, Market Drayton, Nantwich, Runcorn, Liverpool .
First Military Recruitment Ltd
Wigan, NW
The Principal Engineer plays a pivotal role in the technical aspects of bridge engineering projects. Where required provide oversight at construction phase, providing technical expertise and ensuring adherence to design specifications.
Design Engineer Jobs Overview
Merging creativity with engineering sensibilities, design engineers materialize ideas into new products and systems. On one hand, that can apply to the consumer market—everything from cutting-edge refrigeration appliances and the latest ergonomic blueprints for handheld devices to bicycle components and state-of-the-art aircraft units. But these engineers also work on systems that leverage scientific and mathematical principles to construct large-scale civil projects, such as bridges and tunnels. Furthermore, design engineer jobs will have you modifying current products and systems to enhance their function or to finesse certain aspects. And importantly—design engineers are tasked with making sure any product or system can be manufactured in an efficacious and cost-effective manner.
If you’re truly resourceful, brimming with design ideas, and deeply enjoy coming up with creative solutions, you should consider a career as a design engineer. Your workload will typically unfold with the following triple-plan-of-action: Study and research a given design brief; brainstorm creative approaches to address usability and performance issues; and build prototypes based on renderings and virtual models created with computer-aided design (CAD) software.
Expand your horizons by also reviewing our extensive, multifaceted collection of engineering jobs. Or try contemplating these similar roles:
Design Engineer Education and Skills
You can obtain design engineer jobs after completing a foundation degree, a Higher National Diploma (HND), or a university degree, and you should either centre your studies on design engineering (such as a Bachelor of Engineering, or BEng, in design engineering) or go for more specific options, such as industrial design, product design engineering, electronics engineering, or materials science.
Some examples of design engineering courses include:
- Physical Computing (for both electronics and programming).
- Control Systems.
- Engineering in Context.
- Analogue and Digital Systems.
- Robotics and Mechatronics.
- Design and Innovation Management.
And if you have a relevant degree, you can look into a company’s graduate trainee scheme straightaway. These programmes combine learning and development with in-house access at mid-to-large-sized engineering firms. They may last about two years and could potentially lead to a permanent role. But any design engineer position will require that you are highly capable around science and maths, despite any creativity that comes with it. Peruse Monster’s engineer job description sample for more information.
Update Your Design Engineer CV
A majority of your time working in design engineer jobs will be spent in technical and computer-based work, so make sure to highlight appropriate skills and any knowledge you have of CAD and solid modelling software on your CV.
Maybe you’ve already designed virtual models or built prototypes. Then put together a portfolio to showcase your creations. Some design engineers end up in the mechanical engineering industry as mechanical design engineers (prototyping tools, machines, and sensors), so you can get inspiration for your CV from Monster’s mechanical engineer CV example. Or browse around our plethora of CV writing tips. Be sure to write an enticing engineering cover letter to include in your application too. You can enliven your words with our bevy of recommendations for writing successful cover letters.
Interviewing for a Design Engineer Job
As a prospective design engineer, you may be interviewing with major manufacturing labels, biomedical companies, or design consultancy firms, so you should prepare accordingly. Some of the questions you may be asked are:
- Can you describe how you conduct testing on prototypes?
- Have you previously written reports by analysing data from these tests?
- Do you have project management experience? Are you able to oversee the manufacturing process for products or systems you’ve designed?
Go further by checking out Monster’s sample responses to the most common engineering job-interview questions.
How Much Do Design Engineer Jobs Pay?
The main path for this career is to become a design and development engineer, with an emphasis on researching, designing, developing, and improving products and systems for performance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. According to the UK’s National Careers Service, the yearly salary range for this field is £24,000 – £50,000, and that encompasses such job titles as research engineers and industrial designers as well. Then you have product designers—along with prototype designers, 3D designers, and inventors—who should make between £19,000 and £50,000 a year.
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