Production Engineer (R&D)

 

ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions is part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, who are the global leader in access solutions. Every day, we reimagine how people move through a safer, more open world with ease. If you’ve ever walked through an automatic door, stayed in a hotel, or gone through passport control, you’ve probably used one of our products or services. We have operations in over 70 countries, with over 52,000 colleagues around the world.

 

Our expertise in customer journey mapping, innovation, and service design leads to the invention of new solutions that create value for our clients and exceptional experiences for their end users. And we have the fantastic opportunity available in Key and Asset Management for a Production Engineer (R&D).

 

Part of Global Solutions, Key and Asset Management provide intelligent management solutions for keys and equipment. Our key cabinets & locker solutions help all types of organisation’s better control their important assets, improving productivity & accountability, and reducing risk in critical processes.

 

 

Your Role in Keeping the Future in Safe Hands…

 

We are looking for a Production Engineer to join the Hardware Development R&D Team at Traka.

The purpose of this role is to provide Mechanical Engineering support for product development and issues escalated to the R&D team.

Reporting to the Mechanical Design Manager, the role requires applying mechanical engineering skills and expertise to solve complex problems ranging from manufacturing issues to evaluating new product developments.

The role will interact with the other departments within the business as a whole - including supporting our Production and Quality teams with advanced technical support and issue investigations. The role will also require interaction with suppliers and occasionally assist field support technicians with escalated customer issues.

This role will also support the team by helping run quality assurance tests such as life-cycle and durability testing of components and product testing.

You will be working within the Hardware Development Team and directly alongside the design engineers responsible for product development. This is an office-based role at our site in Olney, Buckinghamshire.

  

What you will do…

 

• Provide support and rapid response for all mechanical engineering issues escalated to the team. This will include ‘hands on’ support, telephone & email support to all areas of the business.
• Maintain and provide triage for Engineering Change Requests.
• Maintain and generate build instructions and documentation using 3D CAD program (Autodesk Inventor).
• Provide support to the Quality team with investigations and testing related to design issues.
• Assist with prototype build of pre-production products including production engineering review of new products and major product changes.
• Ensure that new products are designed to comply with relevant safety standards