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# Senior Design Engineer

- **Company:** Imperial Workforce
- **Location:** Middlesbrough, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** SolidWorks (CAD), Microsoft Office, 2d Design
- **Published:** May 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/senior-design-engineer-middlesbrough-yorkshire/2770489852-2/

## About the Role

* A minimum of HNC in Mechanical Engineering or relatable subject
 * Demonstrable experience as a Design Engineer ideally with NPD
 * 3D & 2D CAD experience
 * Confident with Solidworks
 * High level of competence with GD&T
 * Experience of design for manufacture
 * Experience of design costs
 * Confident with MS Office
 * Strong communicator

## Description

The Senior Design Engineer reports directly to the Head of Engineering and is a design engineer with significant experience who displays leadership skills and or significant technical skill. The senior engineer can lead product development activities for a range of products and complexities and independently solve significant technical problems. They will deliver product designs according to a design specification that are feasible, commercially viable and meets legislative requirements. The Senior Design Engineer mentors more junior engineers within the engineering team. They supervise engineers (within their project) ensuring that design activities are completed according to project deadlines. The role requires significant leadership, technical ability and project engineering skills.

DUTIES ARE BUT NOT LIMITED TO:

 * Design and develop new products and systems.
 * Lead and supervise engineers within a project.
 * Create, maintain, check, and approve 3D & 2D data.
 * Provide mentoring to junior engineers.
 * Be a key engineering contact for technical expertise.
 * Ensure that product developments meet industry and legislative requirements.
 * Perform research and benchmarking on competitor products and products which could be
 * developed in the future by the company.
 * Coordinate with key stakeholders internal and external.
 * Communicate and present development project status at all business levels.
 * Lead prototype builds and testing.
 * Lead engineering change activities from design engineering.


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