Technical Engineer

Carter Manufacturing has been providing revolutionary ideas in motion since 1999. We service a global community of customers from our location in Oxford, the home of scientific high tech in the UK.

The company has grown it's product portfolio to a range that services many specialist worldwide customers with bearings, bearing assemblies and linear products. We focus on understanding our customers engineering problems and striving to find solutions that are tailored to each individual application.

We have the proven industry ability to bring concepts from the drawing board through to realised products that work. Whether it's for prototype gearboxes, aircraft actuation components or advanced radar systems; Carter Manufacturing has provided and continues to provide solutions to ever more complex engineering requirements.

Based in newly refurbished offices in Abingdon, we are looking for an experienced Technical Engineer, ideally who has experience of Bearing design to join our collaborative team. We work and play hard and are hiring due to expansion. We have experienced considerable growth over the last few years and are now looking for a Technical Engineer to join our existing, very talented team.

Position Overview

The Technical Engineer's key focus is around the Engineering and Technical aspects of our products. Communicating effectively with colleagues, customers and suppliers providing them with technical support as required.

Assisting colleagues, Customers, and suppliers with technical difficulties or quality issues. Performing calculations and producing reports. Reviewing and understanding technical reports and documents. To develop strong and effective customer and supplier relationships.

Key responsibilities:

• Dealing with customer enquires with a focus on enquires require a level of technical discussion. This includes off-site customer visits and occasional overseas travel.
• Accurately entering customer information, product information, and pricing into the database.
• Producing invoices, entering orders, and making product purchases.
• To review and report on bearing quality issues and failures. Reporting internally to the Operations Manager and Quality Engineer, but also to suppliers and customers.
• To inspect and measure products.
• To produce inspection criteria for products when required.
• To understand customer requirements and produce a well-defined specification for a product to suite.
• Advising on sales prices and mark-ups under special cases such as higher volume or prototyping.
• Offering guidance and structure to engineering projects and product development to the engineering and sales team.
• Producing drawings and Datasheets and CAD renders for a range of uses including Manufacture drawings, customers technical documentation, instruction manuals, and advertisement.
• Producing reports and calculations including Bearing Life, Bearing Stiffness and torque, Bearing fits, and Finite Element Analysis. Discussing these results with customers and understanding the limitations of these calculation methods.
• Participating in meetings including Internal Sales meetings, Customer meetings, Technical meetings, and supplier meetings as required.
• Be heavily involved in bearing design.

Experience/qualifications required:

• Degree or Diploma in Engineering.
• Outstanding attention to detail.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Integrity.
• IT Literate.
• Ability to prioritise tasks.
• Ability to work under pressure to deadlines.
• Strong Team player.
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills.
• Drive and a Proactive, can-do attitude

If this sounds like something you would be interested in, please apply online for an initial informal conversation to discuss the role further.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £25,000.00-£28,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Free parking
• On-site parking

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Abingdon: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person