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Principal Lighting Design Engineer

Assist, support, and advise in finding the best technical direction for the lighting department. Identify new business opportunities, create proposals and meet customers.

Introduction

Pektron Group Ltd are seeking to recruit a Principal Lighting Design Engineer. Your role will be to assist, support, and advise the Engineering Management team in finding the best technical direction for the lighting department.

You will assist in the development of automotive lighting product design systems, tools and procedures within Pektron, identify new lighting business opportunities, creating proposals and supporting new business opportunities.

This is a customer facing role so good communication skills are essential along with the ability to travel when required to support customer site meetings (UK or globally).

Key responsibilities

Identify and pursue new business opportunities in target lighting markets, networking and building relationships with key decision makers
Prepare and conduct middle & senior level technical presentations to current and prospective customers
Create estimates for lighting based projects
Exhibit resilience and problem-solving skills to be able to liaise between the Company and Customer to overcome any issues to move forward to successfully win new business
Support project management colleagues to communicate customer timelines and ensure that expectations are met
Negotiate and/or assist in resolving customer issues (pricing quality etc.)
Involvement with development of new products, working closely with Design, Engineering, and Manufacturing departments to meet client needs
Assist, support and advise the Engineering Management team in finding the best technical direction for lighting
Create and develop lighting design, manufacturing and quality standards
Manage lighting regulatory requirements and testing
Assist in interviewing and testing of potential staff candidates for lighting disciplined activities
Review lighting project scope and create quotations for out-of-scope activities requested by the customer
Analyse complex lighting issues and develops root cause solutions both short term and long-term resolutions
Provide support at the customer for short periods of time (abroad or UK based)

Experience required

Knowledge of automotive lighting standards, lighting homologation and components.
3D CAD (Ideally Catia V5) with the ability to create complex assemblies and A class surfaces.
Appreciation of optical design and toolchains used for it.

What’s on offer

Competitive salary
Yearly pay review
25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Pension
Free parking
Free tea & coffee
BUPA healthcare
Life Insurance
Cycle to work scheme
Funding for professional training and further education plus support in attaining professional membership and paid membership fees
39 hour working week with flexible start and finish times

Location

We are based in Alfreton Road in Derby, easily commutable from the Derby area, Nottingham, Mansfield, Burton, Loughborough, Ashbourne and the Peak District and East Staffordshire.

We have 5 modern, purpose built buildings at our Derby site including state of the art manufacturing facilities and an award winning Technology Centre to house our Engineering team. Our facilities have been recognised as being one of the most modern and well equipped electronics design, development and manufacturing plants in Europe.

If you are considering relocation, Derby has been rated as the best City in the UK for disposable income and Derbyshire is listed in the top 10 places to live in the UK.

About us

Pektron is one of the largest privately owned electronics manufacturers in the world with over 60 years’ experience delivering bespoke electronics hardware and software solutions to blue-chip companies globally. We are innovators in our field and invest in the best people, processes and equipment to drive technological development and meet our customer’s needs.

At our HQ in Derby we employ over 300 staff and operate Engineering, Manufacturing, Design, Testing, Quality and Support functions, whilst our Sales and Technology centre in Detroit supports our customers in the US.

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Type:Permanent

Hours:39 hours per week

Salary / Pay:On application

Location:Derby, UK

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