Product Design Engineer

ICL Tech is a long-established plastics vacuum forming and plastic fabrication company based in Glasgow, Scotland. Working with an impressive UK and international customer base, we’ve built an enviable reputation for manufacturing cost-effective, high quality plastic parts and products.

Alongside customer-led manufacturing, we design, develop and produce our own proprietary product ranges for UK and export markets — award‑winning problem‑solving solutions built around real industry challenges.

Our business combines practical manufacturing expertise with a strong focus on product design, development, and R&D, underpinned by advanced, end-to-end product development capabilities and technologies.

As part of the ICL Plastics Ltd Group, ICL Tech benefits from access to a close network of plastics distribution, specialist manufacturing, and precision polymer engineering businesses, enabling greater capability and collaboration.

(Graduate / Early Career, Mid-weight or Senior)

Glasgow /Full-time

Graduate / Early Career (0–2 years)

Mid-weight (3–5 years)

Senior (5+ years)

We are looking for a Product Design Engineering graduate / early career engineer, alongside mid-weight and senior engineers, to join ICL Tech’s Design, Development & R&D team.

This is a role for engineers who want to work at the interface between design and manufacturing - developing ideas into production-ready parts and seeing them realised through materials, tooling and process.

Working closely with customers and our manufacturing teams, you will play an active role in delivering practical, high-quality engineered solutions across a wide range of industries.

• Work across all stages of development projects, from concept through prototyping, validation and into manufacture
• Translate customer requirements into engineered, production-ready solutions
• Strong capability in 3D CAD software (Solid Works preferred), producing complex models, assemblies and technical drawings that clearly convey design intent
• Apply design for manufacture (DfM) principles
• Work closely with manufacturing teams to prototype, test and refine designs
• Support and progress projects through development into production
• Contribute to R&D activities across customer projects and proprietary product ranges
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in design and manufacturing processes
• Be comfortable in a workshop environment using prototyping and fabrication skills to rapidly bring design concepts to life for testing and iteration.
• Work with a diverse UK and international customer base across sectors including transport, aerospace, construction, energy and renewables
• Contribute to proprietary product development and next‑gen product innovation for UK and export markets
• Gain exposure across the full product lifecycle - from concept and R&D through to production and commercialisation
• Opportunities for customer interaction, site visits, UK & international industry events
• Work closely with design, engineering, manufacturing and marketing teams
• Experience working collaboratively across sister companies

• Degree in Product Design Engineering (preferred)
• A qualification in a relevant engineering field (Industrial Design, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering) will also be considered, supported by Product Design experience
• Strong interest in design innovation, ergonomics and usability in design, and R&D
• Practical, manufacturing‑focused mindset
• Strong visual, verbal and written communication skills, able to clearly present design concepts and rationale to a range of stakeholders
• Understanding of polymer manufacturing processes - machining, fabrication, 3D printing, 3D scanning, thermoforming (desirable)
• Comfortable creating and managing Bill of Materials (BOM) (desirable)

• Proficiency in design tools beyond CAD, including Adobe Creative Suite for presentation and technical documentation.
• Comfortable working across a variety of design and engineering tools to support the full product development lifecycle
• Proficient in Microsoft Office for documentation, data handling and presentations
• Awareness of wider digital tools (e.g. web…