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Design Manager

Tiptopjob 🇬🇧 Bedford, MK40 1SU, United Kingdom

Full-time Manager

Manage the mechanical design function and lead a team of five engineers, splitting time between team leadership and hands-on design engineering. Deliver designs for new machines, upgrades, and spare parts to agreed timelines and KPIs, prepare drawings and parts documentation, and coordinate with electrical design, software and controls, and manufacturing teams.

Responsibilities

  • Manage the mechanical design function and lead a team of five engineers, splitting time between team leadership and hands-on design engineering. Deliver designs for new machines, upgrades, and spare parts to agreed timelines and KPIs, prepare drawings and parts documentation, and coordinate with electrical design, software and controls, and manufacturing teams.

Requirements

  • Applicants must have experience as a mechanical engineering design or drawing office manager, or be a highly experienced mechanical design engineer ready to move into management. A minimum HNC-level mechanical engineering qualification and experience with special purpose machinery are required; packaging machinery experience is preferred, along with SolidWorks and/or AutoCAD skills.

Benefits

  • Annual Bonus
  • Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme

Key Skills

Mechanical design leadership Team management SolidWorks AutoCAD Mechanical drawing standards Packaging machinery knowledge Special‑purpose machinery design Project scheduling KPIs tracking Cross‑functional coordination (electrical, software, controls, manufacturing) Technical documentation Problem solving Mentoring junior engineers HNC‑level mechanical engineering qualification

About Tiptopjob

The TipTopJob Group is an independent, unique network of generic and specialist jobsites that cover over 83 countries and 35 industry sectors. What makes us different? 1. Independent network allowing us to be flexible and adaptable and therefore we can easily meet your requirements and needs. 2. We own a network of specialist jobsites as well as our generic TipTopJob site meaning you benefit from specialist, niche traffic as well as the volumes from the generic side too. 3. Advertise your jobs across any of the network of jobsites and benefit from using multiple job boards in 1 client account. We believe no one else can offer you the opportunity to advertise on a generic site AND a specialist jobsite in just 1 transaction. 4. We can help with International advertising in 85 countries all from your 1 client login. Advertise for candidates in one country to move to another by using our country specific domains e.g. uk.tiptopjob.com and es.tiptopjob.com. 5. Our Accou

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