Project Design Engineer
Do you want to be part of a company focused on creating a more sustainable future? Are you ready to join a global organisation that is passionate about its people, their development, and the impact they make? At CDE, we design and engineer industry-leading wet processing solutions that help customers recover resources, minimise waste, and protect the environment. As part of our team, you’ll also have the opportunity to travel across our sites and experience our global footprint first‑hand.
Reporting to the Project Design Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for managing and releasing products within a Product Owner team, alongside supporting individual live projects. You will ensure that all design activities are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards from initial design through to build and installation. You will take ownership of a designated product, oversee its roadmap, and ensure it continues to evolve in line with customer needs and CDE’s manufacturing capabilities.
About the role
Responsibilities
· Manage the on-time completion, adherence to schedule, quality and cost of project design projects from design through to supporting build and installation.
· To produce accurate BOM’s, layout and fabrication drawings for projects and manage and liaise with customers and suppliers on design specifics/aesthetics & plant requirements.
· Own a product within a product owner team ensuring quality & cost is monitored and roadmap for product is realised.
· Ensure the design aspect of their assigned product/projects continues to meet and exceed internal and customer expectations.
· Liaison with Suppliers/2020V to ensure design is per manufacturing capabilities.
· Co-ordinate and update Project Design Manager on ongoing assigned work status
· Ensure project related snag work is prioritised and completed promptly.
Other
· To carry out any other duties within reason and capability associated with this role.
What you will need
Required criteria
- • Educated to degree or HND/HNC level in an Engineering discipline.
- • Minimum 2-3 years’ experience in an engineering design office
- • Experience in BOM Creation, Draughting, Design for manufacture
- • A very high level of Quality awareness
- • Fluent in 3D CAD
- • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- • Demonstrated effective communication in writing, orally, and through presentations.
- • Ability to work unsupervised and as part of a team.
- • Ability to set and meet timelines and motivate team
- • Demonstrate Attention to detail.
- • Ability to work under pressure.
- • Enthusiastic, energetic self-starter able to work on own initiative.
- • Available to work flexible hours.
- • Willingness and ability to travel.
- • Current driving licence and vehicle insured for business use
Desired criteria
- • Mechanical Engineering Degree Classification
- • A proven track record of managing the design of projects (Circa + £0.5m)
- • Fluent in 2D CAD
- • Excellent Solid Edge skills
Professional skills you’ll need for this job opportunity
Design Engineering
Design drawing
CDE Group
WE ARE CDE. ENGINEERED FOR YOU We empower our customers to transform waste into valuable resources through innovative co-creation, laying the foundations for the circular economy. We help our customers maximise their natural resources in the most sustainable way possible – with greater efficiency and less waste than ever before. Our unparalleled speed and scale are down to our proximity to our customers and our deep understanding of their challenges. Our track record of proven solutions consistently meets our customers’ needs precisely, operating in challenging environments from the Arctic to the Equator. Wet processing is our sole focus –our experience and expertise is unmatched in this field. Every day, in everything we do, we strive to do it right. We want to be the best at what we do and deliver the maximum benefit for our customers. We pull together, as a team, in pursuit of this common cause. Our “Customer for Life” mentality fortifies each of our projects, with CDE engineers delivering continuous, limitless support.
We recognise that it is our people that have established CDE as market leader in developing solutions for the wet processing industry both within natural materials processing and waste recycling sectors. OUR PURPOSE IS TO CREATE OUR BEST WORLD, A TON AT A TIME. To do that, we must continue to build our global team by adding the most ambitious, driven and talented people. We will challenge you, elevate you and broaden your horizons. We will help you to be the best you can be both personally and professionally. We are renowned for our energy and can do attitude…. and at times seemingly delivering the impossible. We also know that all the will in the world won’t take us anywhere unless we work together. And we like to have fun together - life’s too short and we spend most of it at work. If we lose the power to laugh, we lose the power to think. We will continue to add the most dynamic, ambitious and talented individuals to the CDE team.