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Senior Design Engineer
Closing date for applications: 28 Feb 2026
Salary: Up to £50k based on experience
Location: Porvair Filtration Group Ltd, Queensway, New Milton, Hampshire, BH25 5NN
Senior Design Engineer
Porvair Filtration Group
New Milton - Onsite
Upto £50K per annum based on experience
Main purpose of job role:
A hands-on senior design engineering role responsible for leading individual projects within a small Engineering team, overseeing work allocation and ensuring outputs are accurate and completed to agreed timescales. Provide technical support to Application Engineering, Sales and Manufacturing Departments.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintain a work schedule defining all project tasks and agreed timescales for significant orders of new products.
- Account Manager for an important established customer. Tracking activity from initial quote to final product release. e.g. quotes, visits and supplier audits, submitting sign-off paperwork.
- Assist in reviewing and improving the procedures and software used during New Product Introduction and Technical data management, e.g. transition to SharePoint, Vault.
- Prepare, review and approve drawings, technical specifications, reports etc.
- Analyse sales/customer requirements and prepare technical proposals, specifications, and drawings for tender.
- Detailed design calculations e.g. Tolerances/ Stress analysis, etc. Verification of calculations from Applications
- Develop methods for validating new products to ensure performance specifications are met.
- Prepare detailed engineering sign-off documentation, as per customer requested format, e.g. Databooks. Collate evidence of compliance to relevant design standards and codes.
- Monitor and control unit and project costs to meet profit targets and agreed budgets.
- Provide technical support to manufacturing, sales & customers.
Essential Qualifications:
HNC/ HND/ Degree in an Engineering Discipline
Desirable Qualifications / Experience:
- AutoCAD Inventor
- Autodesk Vault
- MathCAD
- DFMEA / PFMEA
- Experience supplying to Nuclear sector
- Experience with injection mouldings
- Pressure Vessel Design PD5500, ASME, PED
- FEA / CFD
- Project Management
Skills & Knowledge Required:
- Competent understanding of fluid mechanics theory and practise
- CAD and 3D Solid Modelling skills
- High degree of proficiency with Office - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint
- Minimum 4 years Industry experience
Experience Required:
- Entire design process from initial concept to production
- Fabrication and welding industry experience
Personal Skills Required:
- Excellent Team player
- Attention to detail
- Excellent organisational skills & disciplined methodical approach to engineering tasks.
- Focused on meeting regulatory and customer specification requirements.
- Clear communication skills.
- Able to manage multiple projects and tasks simultaneously
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