R&D Project Engineer
Basingstoke
£45-50,000.00 plus 10% bonus & benefits
Working at Lavazza Professional Ltd means being part of a family that shares the same values and a great passion: Doing Business with Heart.
Lavazza Professional is comprised of the KLIX® vending systems and FLAVIA® brewing systems—two leading brands in the Vending and Office Coffee Service (OCS) segments.
With a goal to create great tasting moments at work, Lavazza Professional is 100% dedicated to the workplace, creating new and inspiring ways to help people feel a belonging and for all of our associates to come together and achieve great results.
Our passion resonates through-out our fantastic UK open planned offices, from our commitment to sustainability and our focus on empowering integration and driving accountability and innovation.
We have pursued a company vision based on passion for work, for the product and the land in which it operates. It’s time to wake up and smell the coffee!
The Role
We have an excellent opportunity available for an experienced R&D Project Engineer to join the Maintenance of Business team.
As part of the Maintenance of Business team, this role serves to conduct investigation and resolution of technical issues for new and current product introductions, managing changes through from brief to production. This role also exists to support the delivery of current product development through creation, verification and maintenance of mechanical design specifications. Representing the equipment development function the role operates as part of cross-functional project teams providing technical project management.
You will be responsible for;
1. Project manage changes to current products through the business change processes, making decisions on next steps, and ensuring all key stakeholders are kept up to date on project progress. Projects managed will include but not be limited to mechanical changes, supply continuity, change of supplier and VGP.
2. Proactively work with internal and external customers to resolve and manage design related technical issues raised during product introductions or escalated through quality management systems in business, manufacturing and market units.
3. Ensure cross functional team members are aware and aligned on project deliverables, individual outputs and deadlines.
4. Plan projects, coordinating team members and their outputs to ensure work is delivered in line with key project milestones.
5. Act as the technical lead on projects defining specifications requirements from stakeholder input and creating mechanical system design concepts that meet these requirements.
6. Present and communicate to business stakeholders, suppliers and manufacturers project plans, proposals and outcomes
7. Create, develop and modify equipment specifications ensuring they adhere to all legal and customer safety requirements using best practice design methodologies
8. Define and conduct design verification on product designs using in house laboratory and prototyping facilities in line with laboratory standards and scientific best practice
9. Build and maintaining product assemblies and Bill of Materials within CAD/PDM systems to support new and current product developments
10. Organise production trials with the internal production teams/external manufacturers and interact with the technical functions to plan validation testing for product developments.
11. Utilise business processes, identifying ways in which they could be refined resulting in implementation of improved processes.
12. Escalate opportunities for product innovation identified during delivery of principal accountabilities and ensure that any intellectual property (IP) is captured through IP management framework.
How do we operate?
Reporting to the Maintenance of Business manager, the role will be assigned to manage product development changes to products in the existing portfolio.
Maintenance of Business (MOB) projects will be assigned through the MOB management framework.
The role will manage major and minor developments through the business ECR/ ECN process using project management methodologies and tools, where major and minor are determined by the MOB management framework.
The role will act as the project manager and technical project lead on projects when determined by the MOB management framework, creating and modifying engineering specifications (i.e. component, assembly, finished goods, test and requirement specifications) via CAD, office IT, project management tools and PDM systems.
The role shall verify designs through use of CAE systems and safe professional working standards using the laboratory equipment in line with the business laboratory standards.
The role will contribute to technology development in line with the roadmaps with value captured through the IP management procures.
The successful candidate will have:
· BSc in mechanical engineering, product design or related subject
· Experience in technical development of products
· Experience in design change coordination/ management
· Appreciation of hardware, software & mechanical disciplines specifically related to the control of mechatronic systems
· Curiosity for investigating new technologies and ideas
· Good knowledge of Microsoft Office Applications (Power Point, Excel, Word, Project)
· Fluency in CAD applications (SolidWorks Preferred)
· Knowledge of Product Data Management (PDM) applications
· Must be willing to travel within Europe, potentially internationally for short periods
The successful applicant will be subject to reference and previous employment checks and maybe subject to completing a DBS check. Further information can be provided.
Candidates must be based within the UK due to the recruitment process and must have the right to work.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £45,000.00-£50,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Canteen
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site gym
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance
- Sick pay
Schedule:
Supplemental Pay:
Work Location: In person