For nearly 120 years the Blatchford name has been linked with providing excellent rehabilitation services and “putting the patient first”. For the last five years we have been pursuing a strategy of re-inventing ourselves in order to meet the new challenges of the changing demands of markets and patients and in particular the modern NHS.

 
 

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Blatchford Prosthetic & Orthotic Services

Post Design Engineer: NPD, Basingstoke

We are looking for a creative and dynamic design engineer to join our Post Design team. The role provides an exciting opportunity to play an important part in New Product Development. We have a need for the successful candidate to ‘hit the ground running’ to ensure our goals are met.

The range of responsibilities will include the following:

• Working within multi-disciplinary project teams to tight deadlines in order to achieve timely product launches

• Closely working with designers to engineer new products

• Creation and maintenance of technical documentation including production drawings, BOMs & technical files comprising relevant regulatory documentation

• Provide production support: dealing with design queries/changes

• Creation of technical documentation for use by the customer/user

We are looking for a candidate who is ideally a graduate in mechanical engineering. Experience of the medical devices industry would be advantageous. The successful candidate will have working knowledge of SolidWorks and DTP experience (ideally Adobe Creative Suite), whilst it would also be beneficial to be familiar with Ideas Master Series. The ideal candidate will have a good understanding of precision engineering principles, be a competent technical author and have experience of engineering document control systems/engineering change procedures. Working in a very progressive and busy environment, a ‘Can Do’ attitude is essential.

 

If you are interested in this position, please apply by sending a current cv with a covering letter to;

Penny Partridge , HR Assistant,
Chas. A. Blatchford & Sons Ltd, Lister Road , Basingstoke, Hants
RG22 4AH .

fax: 01256 316666. E-mail: Penny Partridge


For more information about this role, please contact:
Ian Cullington, Senior Post Design Engineer 01256 316656

Closing date: 22nd February 2010

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