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About Us - Severn

Part of Severn Group, Severn Valve manufactures and supports high-quality valves for the energy industries. Its control, choke and butterfly valves are pre-eminent in the global market, underpinning the reliability and high performance of business-critical client infrastructure. Severn Valve’s global reach, technical prowess, and collaborative approach – all founded upon a heritage of British engineering excellence – helping to assure production continuity for clients and reduce the prospect of costly downtime. Its understanding of the life-cycle of assets positions Severn Valve to offer end-to-end engineering solutions, enabling clients to meet their core imperatives: safe operations and minimum downtime.

Purpose for the Design Engineer:

The suucessfil Design Engineer will work as part of the engineering team to investigate new technologies and manufacturing methods, deliver innovative new products to the market and optimise costs in existing designs.

Key Accountabilities or the Design Engineer:

Utilising Severns best practice and experiences to develop product concepts and customer requirements into viable design solutions
Development of innovative solutions to industry wide problems.
Investigation into materials and manufacturing options to optimise, cost-effectiveness, and performance.
Design of tests to evaluate products and solutions meet customer and regulatory requirements
Guaranteeing deadlines are met to ensure the success of development projects.
Management and progress reporting on a number of small research projects.
Expertise fo rthe Design Engineer:

Essential

Higher National Certificates/Diplomas or equivalent from college; with at least 5 years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Computer Skills in 3D Design / 2D Drafting (Solid Edge) & Microsoft Suite.
Good communication skills to enable cross functional working both internally and externally
Experience of new product introduction ideally within a controlled environment
Desirable

Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organisation.
Experience of design for manufacture and production techniques
Experience of managing projects.
Experience of working with a remote team both in the UK and abroad