Senior Product Development Engineer

With a strong strategic direction and ambitious growth plans, Argus Heating, have a range of market initiatives for designing new products and evolving their existing products closer to clients’ future needs; for their products to be more environmentally friendly; and to adapt their products so they can be used in other emerging market sectors.

Longer term, a key driver both from within the Argus Group and their clients is to make their products more environmentally friendly. To do so, products will need to be capable of being refurbished and refitted or made of materials so that at end of life the products break down easier.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Innovation and pragmatism are key components of this role. With a strong manufacturing team behind you, your focus is from the design of products through to the client.

Working closely with the Marketing Product Manager and the Sales Team, you will ensure the products remain leaders in their respective markets and relevant for their individual clients and emerging market sectors. They have several market initiatives and opportunities identified with clients. As the Technical Product Design Lead, your role will be to take these initiatives, consult with clients alongside the sales team and develop conceptual designs for modifications to existing products or new products. Then liaise with the manufacturing team to ensure a seamless design for manufacture.

You will work across Argus Heating’s full product range, but your initial focus will be on market identified conceptual design initiatives for their key Foil Product.

Regarding Product Design, this is a senior role, and its remuneration range reflects that. It will appeal to an ambitious Engineer looking to have leadership responsibilities whilst retaining “hands‑on” design input into the product across its full lifecycle.

There will be a need to accompany the Sales team at times on overseas visits to clients.

YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

Initially you will be the sole Product / Design Engineer for the product line so you will need to be a confident, assured person who is proactive and a self‑starter with a track record of achieving results in engineering product design and innovation. You will bring a consultative and influencing manner comfortable in a variety of settings which will allow you to work seamless with the client and sales / marketing team through to the manufacturing team.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

Technically you will have several of the following :

• BE or Trade qualification in Mechanical Engineering with electrical experience, or Mechatronics, or Electrical Engineering with mechanical experience.
• Mechanical - Knowledge of mechanical design principles.
• Electrical - Knowledge of electrical principles, electrical safety, and ability to interpret electrical schematics for electromechanical products.
• Strong competency with 3D CAD. Solidworks is used.
• Experience in design and development of Electromechanical Products.
• Understanding of general thermodynamics, and specifically fluid thermodynamics.

Nice to have’s include :

• Knowledge of electrical safety compliance standards, ideally EN / IEC 60335-1 and UL-499.
• Experience working within quality systems, ISO9001 is used.
• Demonstrated understanding of lean methods and tools.

THE COMPANY

Argus Heating Limited (AHL) refer to has been leading the field in heating component design and manufacture for more than 50 years. They are specialists in electric heating element design, in the manufacture of foil heaters used in variety of intermediate bulk containers and tubular heaters, that provide low-cost heating in towel rails, cupboards and community electrical appliances.

They are part of the wider Argus Group. The Argus Group is a Christchurch, New Zealand-based company that consists of several manufacturing businesses, including Argus ManuTech, Argus CableTech, and Argus Heating, specializing in industrial heating, cable and harness solutions, and advanced manufacturing.

From family beginnings, with the same values that remain a strong part of the organizational culture today, the business has expanded and with new state-of-the-art facilities, they are well positioned for growth. The key to their success is a constant focus on quality and continuous improvement, whilst also proudly supporting the wider community in Christchurch.

APPLICATION

Sound like you? For a confidential discussion, you can contact Richard Foster on or . To submit an application please press the Apply key.

FOSTERRA HR & Recruitment is exclusively managing this recruitment process on behalf of Argus Heating.

Keywords : New Product Development, Senior New Product Introduction (NPI), Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Design, Electrical Design

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