Development Engineer

2 weeks ago


Randburg, Gauteng, South Africa Sandvik Full time

Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg

Deadline : April 14, 2025

Purpose of the role :

  • To discover, develop and evaluate new product ideas, enhancements to existing products or strategic product extensions, and translates research discoveries into usable and marketable products.

The job responsibilities :

  • Appraises new product ideas to determine their potential to address customer needs and to achieve goals in revenue growth and market share.
  • Designs, validates and brings new products to market.
  • Specifies precise new product functional requirements; designs, tests and integrates components to produce final designs; and evaluates the design's overall effectiveness, cost, reliability and safety.
  • Designs, develops, executes and evaluates fitness-for-use testing, product specifications and process validation plans; creates and reviews material part specifications and bills of materials.
  • Collaborates with internal manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers and product specialists to optimize designs for manufacturability.
  • Works closely with Manufacturing management to ensure design and manufacturing details follow best practices, including ease of assembly, accessibility for welding, checking availability of steel sections, considering plate bending, and organizing the bill of materials.
  • Utilizes CAD (Computer Aided Design) or CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) systems to model new designs and produce detailed engineering drawings.
  • Responds to complex technical questions regarding the organization's product, system or service.
  • Pre-sales activities include analyzing customer's technical needs and suggesting solutions.
  • Assists in developing and presenting training material when needed.
  • Required to travel and meet with customers when needed, including taking measurements on-site.
  • Ensures that all work conforms to the required in-house modelling and detailing standards.
  • Ensures sufficient checking of drawings and BOMs to eliminate NCRs.
  • Participates in generating new in-house technical standards and training material.
  • Develops and maintains engineering calculations to assist in product design where needed.
  • Assists in performing engineering first principle calculations when needed.
  • Manages and assists in performing engineering structural integrity and dynamic calculations and conducts test and measurement exercises using advanced technology.
  • Checks the designers' design intent at the initial phase of projects to identify potential weaknesses in the designs.
  • ETO and R&D resources can be shared across teams on a case-by-case basis to support both regional and global functions based on workload and agreement between departmental managers.
  • Remote work is limited, primarily office based.

Qualifications & Experience Requirements

  • MEng. University Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
  • 2-6 years of advanced 3D CAD modelling and drafting experience in sheet metal fabrication industries including welding specifications.
  • Good Test & Measurement experience with field or lab testing experience.
  • Preferred experience in a previous R&D role.
  • Proficient in Siemens NX & Teamcenter software packages. Solid Edge and other CAD software are an added benefit.
  • Proficient in Python or similar programming language.
  • Multibody Dynamics simulation experience is an added benefit.
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