R & D Engineer

Location: Wednesbury

Salary: £37K-39K

R & D Engineer – Overview

An Automotive manufacturing company are now looking for an R & D Engineer

to join their team.

R & D Engineer – Responsibility

• Dismantling and reverse engineering of electrical steering product.
• Identification of components and development and maintenance of Bills of Materials within our production system
• Development and up keeping of technical documentation
• Ability to evaluate and set test requirements
• Identify requirements for tooling for the production of new part numbers, work with Engineers and machinists to produce tooling.
• Maintains component sample inventory and related databases
• Maintains original equipment sample library
• Raw Material/Component inspection and approval for new products
• Consolidates research component and finished goods
• Consolidation of new part numbers.
• Research automotive communications.
• Research new types of steering system.
• Training on new product introduced.
• Provide technical support in the areas of production.
• Support Quality problem solving
• Raise Non-conformity alert
• Support internal improvement meetings

R & D Engineer - job requirements:

The ideal candidate must come from the manufacturing industry as a R & D Engineer. You will also have the following skills, qualifications and experience:

• A minimum 3 years hands on experience as an automotive electrician.
• Working with automotive and diagnostic equipment such as scanners and multi meters.
• Good knowledge of the types of automotive communications is essential.
• NVQ level 3 or City and Guilds in Automotive electrician / Vehicle communications.
• Good level of computer skills are needed I.E: Excel, Word, Power Point & adobe photo shop. CAD cam would be an advantage along with a knowledge of Photo editing

For more information please call Sam Arnold on 0161 976 3540.

LEAN Engineering Recruitment Ltd are acting as a 3rd party on behalf of our client. All applications will be held on our database for current and future positions.

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