Product Development Engineer - Hydraulics

The Job Product Development Engineer 

​​​​​​​The Company: 

• A leading manufacturer and systems engineering company who operate globally 

• Leading manufacturer within Hydraulics including Pumps, Valves, Motors & Systems 

• Offering world class products and newly designed products and systems to the Industrial and Off Highway Hydraulic market 

• Good opportunities for career growth and excellent training and professional development 

 

Benefits of the Product Development Engineer 

• Salary £35k - £50k depending on experience 

• Pension 

• Laptop 

• 25 days annual leave rising to 30 with service + bank holidays 

 

The Role of the Product Development Engineer 

• You will be involved in supporting operations and helping with running of the factory, keep drawings up to date etc… 

• You will be responding to customer requests & making changes and tweaks to existing products to fit their requirement 

• You will also be involved in new product development such as increasing power/pressure for clients - digitalisation/electrification etc… As well as designing brand new products which will be used in the future 

• Working with customers on prototyping, lots of project work and software development. Doing design work on AutoCAD Inventor. 

• Design for Hydraulic Pumps, Motors, Valves & Systems as well as the software and controls etc... 

• Work within Industrial and Off Highway, Mobile OEM, Marine etc... 

• Writing technical reports and doing product development 

• Lead and oversee new product development projects 

 

The Ideal Person for the Product Development Engineer 

• Degree qualified in a relevant engineering discipline - ideally a masters within Mechanical, Mechatronic, Integrated, Systems Engineering or maybe Electrical/Electronic Engineering. 

• Good Mechanical knowledge with ideally some knowledge around embedded electronics, software programming etc... 

• May consider a straight or recent graduate at the bottom end of the salary scale, though happy with experienced person at the top end. 

• Great if have design exp with Autodesk Inventor but MUST have design experience, not just a draughtsman. 

• Able to design and create technical products. 

• Consider good design/product development experience within any Mechanical products such as Pneumatics, Pumps, Valves, Motors, Gearboxes etc... 

• Good communications, team player, good eye for detail, driven, ability to write reports. 

 

If you think the role of Product Development Engineer is for you, apply now! 

 

Consultant: Bjorn Johnson 

Email: bjorn@otrsales.co.uk 

Tel no. 0208 397 4114 

Candidates must be eligible to work and live in the UK. 

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