Design Support Engineer (719)

Join a leading motorcycle manufacturer renowned for excellence as a Design Support Engineer, where you'll drive continuous improvement in motorcycle production through innovative engineering solutions. In this highly technical role, you'll collaborate across departments, ensuring projects meet rigorous time, cost, and quality standards while contributing to a world-class customer experience. Perfect for engineers passionate about precision, problem-solving, and delivering cutting-edge designs that set industry benchmarks.

Job role overview:
A Design Engineer will take responsibility for the delivery of engineering solutions to support the continuous improvement of current production motorcycles. Collaborating with others, both inside and outside of the Design Department, to deliver these engineering solutions to the time, cost, quality, and specification constraints as defined by the business. The role is varied and may also include providing design support to other departments to support the operation of the business.

Please note that this is not a standard Design Engineer vacancy for our Vehicle Design Teams, and is instead a highly technical and varied role in our Current Support team.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the delivery of engineering solutions to support the continuous improvement of current production motorcycles, consulting with and seeking support from Specialists and Chief Engineers as required.
• Responsible for delivering these projects to the business defined time, cost, quality, and specification requirements, consistent with the high regard that is placed on the customer ownership experience.
• To regularly work as part of a cross functional team, using problem solving tools such as 8D to identify and define opportunities for improvement, followed up with timely and robust engineering solutions.
• Provide varied design support for other departments to suit the requirements of the business.
• The role is a highly technical role, focussed on detail and delivery.
• Communicate and collaborate across the entire supply/value chain to maximise team working and effectiveness.
• Contribute to the creation and maintenance of detailed project plans to ensure that current and future deliverables are met to promise.
• Deliver to the key KPI's asked of the role that will be driven from Cost, Time, Quality and Specification targets.
• Follow established processes, procedures and working practices to minimise risk to projects and products, but also challenge these to maximise the effectiveness of the Department.
• Escalate concerns, risks, and issues up through the reporting chain.

• Maths and English GCSE grade C or above.
• MEng or BEng in an Engineering related subject.

• Has a highly technical approach, with emphasis on attention to detail.
• Ability to collaborate on technical judgement as required to get value added from more experienced staff, with emerging ability to work independently as experience increases.
• Ability to demonstrate urgency and willingness to deliver to promise.
• Understands the need to think ahead regarding considering risk and mitigations for their designs, with a focus on robust and proven solutions.