Senior Product Design Engineer (Inclusive Design)

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Employer: Designability

Location: Regular presence at our offices in Bath plus some remote working

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Contract type: Permanent full time

Salary: £35,000 - £42,000 FTE per annum dependent on skills and experience

Designability is a national charity that supports disabled people to live with greater independence. Our expertise is in person-centred design: to understand the needs, challenges and aspirations of disabled people by placing them at the heart of everything we do. Through this approach, we gain invaluable insights which we combine with creativity and specialist skills to help inform decisions throughout every stage of a project. This results in innovative, engaging and practical designs of accessible products and services to transform the everyday lives of disabled people.

Over the last 50+ years, we have worked on a range of pioneering projects from the multi-award-winning Accessible Pushchair design and national guidance on Accessible Electric Vehicle Charging to our flagship Wizzybug powered wheelchairs for very young children. We collaborate with organisations, businesses and partnerships to help create positive change in the world of accessible design. To date, we've transformed over 300,000 lives in the UK.

As a charity, we respond to specific needs with the aim of our products and services reaching those who need them, whilst also inspiring new markets to blossom. We strive for a future where disabled people live the life they choose, every day.

We're beginning an exciting period of growth in the Design & Innovation team, with a growing portfolio of impactful products and services to deliver over the coming years. Our new research strategy brings a pipeline of new challenges and ideas, leading to corporate partnerships and new opportunities in our design consultancy business.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our welcoming and dynamic team at an exciting time of growth across our charity, and to make a meaningful difference through our work supporting disabled people to live with greater independence.

We are looking for a Senior Product Design Engineer (Inclusive Design) who has the following essential criteria:

• A degree qualification in a relevant subject such as Product Design, Industrial Design or Mechanical Engineering (or equivalent qualification/relevant experience).
• Experience of innovative problem solving, designing physical products.
• A portfolio that demonstrates the ability to lead a project and deliver success individually and with a team.
• Applied experience of materials and manufacturing processes.
• Proven practical knowledge of manufacturing processes including machining, metal forming, plastic moulding, and additive manufacturing.

All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding checks, including checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service and employment references.

Benefits that come with working for Designability:
Looking after its employees is important to Designability - supporting everyone to be happy and healthy means that we live our values of being creative, practical and inclusive and in turn meet our mission to enable disabled people to live with greater independence. We offer a range of employee benefits, including flexible working, a generous annual leave allowance and substantial employer contribution pension scheme.

Designability is a Real Living Wage and Disability Confident Employer. We are committed to recruiting the best person for the job, based solely on their ability and individual merit as measured against the criteria for individual roles; through a process that is fair, open, consistent and free from bias and discrimination.

All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability status or length of time spent unemployed. As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to making reasonable adjustments.

'Offer an Interview' Scheme: Designability welcomes applications from disabled applicants and is committed to offering an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role, as set out in the job description. If you wish your application to be considered under the 'Offer an interview' scheme, please indicate this in your covering letter, or email .

Closing Date for applications: Applications are being taken on a rolling recruitment basis and this vacancy may be closed once sufficient applications have been received.

Interview date: Successful applicants will be offered a mutually convenient interview date. Interviews will usually be held at our Bath offices.

Start date: At earliest convenience.