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Design Engineer

ID 2026-6519
Category
Engineering
Position Type
Regular Permanent Full-time employment
Location : Location
UK-Warwickshire-Rugby
Location : City
Rugby
Location : State/Province
Warwickshire
Location : Country
UK

Overview

Design Engineer - Mechanical – Rugby, Warwickshire

Full Time Staff Role

 

 

Overview

In this role, you'll be involved in the design and development of ceramic products, metallised and brazed assemblies to meet customer expectations and demands. In addition, the role will product engineering support to sales and operations.

 

Morgan Advanced Materials is looking for a Design Engineer to join our Technical Ceramics team in Rugby.
We make highly engineered ceramic components and metalised/brazed assemblies that end up in places where failure really isn’t an option.
Your work genuinely matters here — it keeps customers moving, competing, and occasionally out of trouble.
 
This role sits right at the point where ideas become real products.
 
You’ll turn customer requirements into designs that can actually be manufactured, and you’ll support the teams across sales, operations and NPI to make sure they stay that way.

 

 

 

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

 

Engineering

  • Design technical ceramic products and assemblies to meet customer expectations
  • Conduct engineering and manufacturing feasibility reviews for new and modified Product enquiries
  • Generate CAD Models & detail drawings to BS8888
  • Maintain accurate design records, including B.O.Ms and design files
  • Carry out product realisation activities in compliance to company procedures: ISO9001
  • Provide timely response and reaction during development process to enable quick decisions
  • Provide sales with product and technical support
  • Liaise & meet with customers as required
  • Manage NBDP allocated projects
  • Reduce lead time for new product introduction
  • Support NPI for nominated products
  • Design & generate detailed drawings of production tooling to support cost effective right first-time manufacture
  • Liaise with sub-contractors, tool makers, and suppliers to ensure cost effective product manufacture
  • Support operations / customer feedback process with route cause analysis and problem solving
  • Manage day to day workload and maintain prompt efficient turn round of orders and work requests
  • Research new products and methods to improve future prospects
  • Create prototypes designs to provide validation of ideas
  • Determine manufacturing specifications that will optimise cost and design

 

People & Culture

  • Work as a proactive member of the engineering team and to encourage a continuous improvement culture
  • Provide support, coach and identify training and development needs in areas where necessary including Engineering Apprentices
  • Ensure there is good communication both up and down the organisation

 

 

Qualifications

 

Qualifications and Skills

  • Significant experience in a manufacturing environment
  • Ability to learn and understand complex technical products and convert this into manufactured products to a high-quality standard
  • Demonstrate success in developing and improving complex manufacturing processes
  • Possess a good level of technical competence.
  • Qualified to HNC level or above in an Engineering / technical discipline
  • Understanding of ceramic and/or refractory materials. (desirable)
  • Autodesk Inventor / Autodesk Vault

 

What You’ll Get

 

 

A 37‑hour working week (Mon–Thu 8.00–4.30, Fri 8.00–1.00), 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, a competitive salary, pension scheme, Share Save plan, life cover, EAP, wellbeing support and free parking. And you’ll be part of a team that values straight answers, quality work, and engineers who think for themselves.

If this sounds like you, apply now.
Don’t have an up‑to‑date CV? No problem — apply with what you have or reach out to our Talent team on LinkedIn.

 

 

 

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