Job Description

Design Manager
West Yorkshire
55,000-60,000 base salary + benefits
The Company
Our client designs and manufactures large capital goods for the process industry. Producing purely bespoke designs, they offer a one-of-a-kind product that matches client specifications exactly. The business generates 25 million revenue and are trusted by their customers due to their 98% product efficiency.
The company has been operating for over 100 years and now has over 150-person headcount. Over the last 3 years they have seen almost 40% revenue growth, and have invested into training and developing their team, both through internal and external training providers.
The Role
The role of Design Manager will involve leading on project-style design work, with the support of anywhere from 2-7 design engineers depending on the size of project. Operating as part of a 4-person Design Management team, you will ensure design projects keep to agreed timescales and are of the highest possible quality. You will:

• Lead a design team, ensuring competency, training, and development of the design engineers
• Keep design projects to timescales, quality, and conformity requirements, signing off on all designs and drawings before issue
• Creating business cases for non-contract product modifications
• Working cross-collaboratively with applications, project, sales, scheduling, and engineering teams
• Ensuring information from the customer is converted into conceptual design layouts & instructions

The Candidate
To be successful in your application for this Design Manager role you will need:

• Experience producing 3D mechanical designs of heavy industrial equipment
• Familiarity with concepts such as thermofluids, stress analysis, and pressure drop calculations.
• Flexibility to work between projects depending on scale and customer demand
• Either experience as a design manager, or tenured experience as a design engineer with the desire to take the next step up

If you're interested please apply online, send your CV to or give me a call on 07773 207 097
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