Development Engineer

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March 4, 2026 (18 days left to apply) job requisition :
R0084504

At Rock Processing, we’re passionate about development and advanced technology, and we always aim to offer the best possible experience for our customers in a sustainable way. It’s a mission that takes commitment, but as an industry leader we aim for nothing but excellence in everything we do.

We are looking for an ambitious and innovative to join our team as our Development Engineer for the Engineering Department.

The role will report into the Engineering R&D Manager and will be based from our offices in Spartan, Kempton Park.
** Purpose of the role:
*** To discover, develop and evaluate new product ideas, enhancements to existing products or strategic product extensions, and translates research discoveries into usable and marketable products.
** The job responsibilities:
*** Appraises new product ideas to determine their potential to address customer needs and to achieve goals in revenue growth and market share.
* Designs, validates and brings new products to market.
* Specifies precise new product functional requirements; designs, tests and integrates components to produce final designs; and evaluates the design's overall effectiveness, cost, reliability and safety.
* Designs, develops, executes and evaluates fitness-for-use testing, product specifications and process validation plans; creates and reviews material part specifications and bills of materials.
* Collaborates with internal manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers and product specialists to optimize designs for manufacturability.
* Work closely with Manufacturing management to make sure design and manufacturing details follow best practices. This includes making parts easy to assemble, ensuring welding is accessible, checking the availability of steel sections, considering plate bending, and organizing the bill of materials.
* Utilizes CAD (Computer Aided Design) or CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) systems to model new designs and produce detailed engineering drawings.
* Respond to more complex technical questions regarding the organization’s product, system or service.
* Pre-sales activities include analysing customer’s technical needs and suggesting solutions.
* Assist in developing and presenting training material when needed.
* Required to travel and meet with customers when needed. This includes taking measurements on-site.
* Ensure that all work conform to the required in-house modelling and detailing standards.
* Ensure sufficient checking of drawings and BOM’s to eliminate NCR’s.
* Participate in generating new in-house technical standards and training material.
* Develop and maintain engineering calculations to assist in product design where needed.
* Assist in performing engineering first principle calculations when needed.
* Manage and assist in performing engineering structural integrity and dynamic calculations and conduct test and measurement exercises, by means of using advanced technology.
* Check the designers’ design intent at the initial phase of projects to identify potential weaknesses in the designs.
* ETO and R&D resources can be shared across teams on a case-by-case basis to support both regional and global functions based on workload and agreement between departmental managers.
** Qualifications & Experience Requirements
*** BEng University Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering.
* MEng. University Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering is an advantage.
* 3-5 years of advanced 3D CAD modelling, drafting and FEA experience in sheet metal fabrication industries including welding specifications.
* Good Test & Measurement experience with field or lab testing experience.
* Preferred experience in previous R&D role.
* Proficient in Siemens NX & Teamcenter software packages. Solid Edge and other CAD software are an added benefit.
** Other Requirements & Competencies
*** Proficient in Python or similar programming language.
* Finite Element Analysis simulation experience.
* Multibody…