Design Engineer
Do you want to make a difference?
Imagine progressing your career with a global leader and enhancing children’s lives at the same time. Such opportunities are rare, but Leckey Design has one for you.
Leckey leads the market in creating innovative, life-changing equipment for children and young people with disabilities. We work on extraordinary projects so we need extraordinary people who bring a lot to the work: creativity and practicality, thinkers and doers.
In return, you’ll get the chance to join a talented, multi-disciplinary team, to be creative, to push the boundaries of design and engineering, and to know you’re doing it all to enhance someone’s quality of life.
Reporting to the Design Manager, the successful candidates will champion great design to produce products that meet all performance and functional criteria.
Main Responsibilities:
Support the Design Manager to:
- Generate project timescales and plans to meet deliverables.
- Ensure design projects are on time and within budget.
- Support prototyping by providing accurate data to the prototyping resources.
- Manage product testing.
- Manage your time to ensure maximum efficiency, highlight areas of concert as early as possible and where additional resources may be are required.
- Ensure preparedness and attend product/project reviews as required by the Design Manger.
- Support product/project reviews with the Director of R&D as required.
- Ensure all products are thoroughly tested and meet Regulatory requirements.
- Ensure the DHF is correct/complete as regards predesign Freeze tasks/documents.
Product Design:
- Take project scopes and Design Inputs, interoperate them with support from the Design Manager and create a design plan.
- Development products from concept through to Design freeze, both individually, or as a member of a project team using SolidWorks.
- Work with other Designers, Implementation Engineers, departments, test labs, suppliers and contractors to ensure the successful project completion.
- Adhere to design procedures and protocols, keeping electronic files and storing them appropriately EPDM vault (not on your local drive).
- Comply with Health and Safety at Work requirements at all times, ensuring your work area is clean and safe.
- Communicate project briefs to the design team.
- To ensure projects are researched thoroughly covering user needs, market requirements and technical requirements.
- Carry out concept and idea generation against a project scope/Design input document for presentation to the Design Manager/Director of R&D/project team for selection.
- Progress selected designs to a final design that meets the project requirements.
- Ensure the generation of all technical outputs for Design Freeze.
- Work to the DCP, PDP and VaVe process’s.
- Work to the patent process, paying particular attention to ensuring no new development infringes existing patents of others.
- At Design Freeze handover the design documentation to the Implementation Engineer.
- Identify training needs you may have to the Design Manager.
Technical Support:
- To provide technical product support to Product Management and Implementation Engineering.
- As required by the Design Manager, work with local universities to improve product development.
- Be familiar with all Regulatory requirements (CE, CA, FDA, etc).
Essential Criteria:
- At least 5 years experience in a busy Product Design or Engineering Department.
- Experience of designing and managing products from concept through to full production.
- A thorough understanding of manufacturing process including plastics and metal fabrication.
- Strong concepting, visualization and problem solving skills.
- Highly organized, meticulous planning skills and detail conscious.
- Have a good working knowledge of 3D CAD modelling, preferably SolidWorks.
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Office products especially Excel, Word, Powerpoint and Outlook.
Desirable criteria:
- Practical use of FMEA / DFMEA techniques
- Experience in designing parts for metal forming and fabrication, injection moulding, aluminium extrusion, high pressure die casting
- Experience in using and maintaining 3D printers
- Use of and validation of design with FEA techniques
Remuneration
- 38 Hrs per week.
- Monday to Thursday 8:00am – 4:30pm, Friday 8:00am to 2:00pm
- Permanent, full time
- Life Assurance 4 x salary
- 33 days holiday (including Bank Holidays)
- Inclusive collaborative work environment
- Remote working opportunities (dependent on business requirements)
- On-site parking
- Company pension contribution
- Excellent working conditions
- Learning & development opportunities
- Exciting career prospects with an expanding local and global company
- Employee initiatives
- Enhanced maternity pay
If you believe you have the necessary qualities to join this innovative team please send your CV (including details of your current remuneration), with a covering letter to our HR Department including a portfolio of work in support of your application. Please note at interview stage you may be required to demonstrate your concepting skills, sketching skills and ability to communicate in 2D & 3D. Closing date for applications will be 19th June 2026
We reserve the right to enhance criteria on shortlisting.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. However, as women are currently under-represented in this workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from women.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: From £45,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
Application question(s):
- Where are you based?
- Please provide a link to your Design Portfolio which will form part of the application requirement.
Education:
Experience:
- product design: 5 years (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (preferred)
Work Location: In person
