Design Engineer

Contek are working with an award winning business in London who transform retail spaces across the high street with their design, manufacturing, and installation services. Their bespoke creations are crafted and manufactured in their factory, offering end-to-end solutions for in-store experiences, brand activations, pop-up shops, and retail fitouts. Through growth, they are looking to appoint an experienced Design Engineer to join the team on a permanent basis. Monday-Thursday 8:30-5:00pm, Friday 8:30-3:30pm Job Purpose: Designing OF retail "furniture" (counters, CDUs, FSUs, displays etc) for both in-house manufacture (requiring full assembly drawings and BOMS) a mixture of in-house and some subcontract manufacture. System used: Solidworks (Essential experience) Duties:

• Making sense of a spread of clients information and turning it into clarity.
• Cost Engineering for clients budgets.
• Creation of designs from brief, working closely with project managers and account managers.
• Creation of prototypes, releasing drawings to production.
• Working with varied retail clients including the likes of Armana, New Look, Sainsburys and Pets at Home.
• Design and manage the assembly of retail, wholesale and Pop-Up shops.
• Creation of designs and models utilizing Solidworks.
• Creation of packing and assembly instructions.
• Bill of material accuracy within the MRP system
• Item data accuracy within the MRP system
• Working within a supportive team working on a range of projects. In this role, you will assist with the design from processes including laser machining, bending, injection moulding, laser welding, CNC Routing, edgebanding and printing.

• Experienced in data management within an MRP software system
• Design Engineer (2D/3D) with the use of Solidworks
• Bill of material (BOM) creation & maintenance within an MRP software system
• Competent in use of Microsoft Office applications, Outlook, Word, Excel, Power Point, Teams
• Document control
• Creation of written technical documentation

Skills/ Experience Desirable

• Use of CAD software (Solidworks)
• POS or Retail equipment manufacture experience

Personal Qualities

• Integrity, accountability, entrepreneurship, passion & teamwork
• Proactive, self-motivated and flexible
• Attention to detail and adherence to process
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
• Good communication skills
• Problem solving and creative thinking
• Desire to learn & develop new skills and knowledge