Senior Advanced Development Engineer

If you’re looking for a progressive and rewarding career and you thrive in a fast-paced, fun and team-orientated environment, then look no further!

Overview of Vax:

Our heritage-rich, expert-led business has always had the same goal: to prioritize innovation and to design easy-to-use products that seamlessly integrate into our customers' lives, offering reliable, quick solutions to cleaning homes, whatever the mess.

Vax has forged its reputation as a brand that focuses on the needs of its customers. Our culture of innovation is at the heart of everything we do and we work hard to constantly think of new ways to improve our products, ensuring that we deliver premium quality products for our customers.

Senior Advanced Development Engineer Global Floorcare, part of TTI, is home to two iconic floorcare brands:
Vax and Hoover.

Together, we combine decades of expertise with a passion for innovation, creating products that make cleaning faster, easier and more effective for millions of customers around the world.

Our success is built on understanding the needs of consumers and continuously pushing the boundaries of what's possible in floorcare. Backed by the scale and strength of a global business, we are committed to developing high-quality, innovative solutions that deliver exceptional performance and help people care for their homes with confidence.

As a Senior Advanced Development engineer, you’ll develop innovative technologies, product concepts and engineering solutions that shape our future innovation pipeline. Working at the front end of product development, you’ll combine consumer understanding with exceptional product engineering to rapidly create, prove and mature ideas before they transition into NPD.Working alongside Design Research, Industrial Design, Advanced Electrical and Technical Engineering, you’ll transform opportunities into compelling prototypes and demonstrators that inspire confidence, reduce technical uncertainty and influence future product direction.

Key

Duties include:

Develop innovative technologies, product concepts and engineering solutions from opportunities uncovered through design research through to validated proof of concept.

Translate consumer & user feedback into practical, creative and technically credible product and technology solutions.

Rapidly build high quality prototypes and demonstrator rigs that support technical learning, user testing and stakeholder engagement.

Apply strong product engineering principles and manufacturing knowledge to develop concepts which are innovative, feasible and commercially viable.

Support technical de risking through structured experimentation, engineering analysis, testing and rapid iterations. Failing fast and learning with pace.

Contribute to technical and design reviews, communicating engineering recommendations with clarity and confidence.

Collaborate clearly with Design Research and Industrial Design to create concepts that bring future consumer experiences to life in user research.

Work with supplier and global engineering teams to develop concept designs, engineering solutions and supporting CAD.Continuously improve concept quality, engineering methods and ways of working through curiosity, experimentation and practical problem solving.

What we’re looking forYou’re an exceptional product design engineer who enjoys creating products and developing technologies that don’t exist yet. You combine creativity with strong engineering fundamentals, think in bigger picture as well as the details and instinctively build to learn. Whether you’re sketching ideas, developing CAD, building prototypes or presenting concepts, you’re driven by solving real consumer problems through practical engineering.

Skills, Experience & Competencies Bachelor’s degree (BA, BSc, BEng) in Industrial, Product Design or Mechanical Engineering or related discipline. (Master’s advantageous but not required).5+ Years experience in Advanced Development, Concept Engineering or innovative consumer product development.

Strong understanding of consumer product engineering, mechanical design and manufacturing processes including injection moulding, die casting, sheet metal,…