Senior Technical Designer

Location: West Northamptonshire

Senior Technical Designer / Solid Works Designer

Northampton | Hybrid – 2 Days per Week in the Office
£42,000 – £47,000 + Benefits | Permanent

Solid Works | Technical Design | Retail Display | POS | Manufacturing | 3D CAD

Are you an experienced Senior Technical Designer, Solid Works Designer or Technical CAD Designer who knows how to take a creative concept and turn it into something that can actually be manufactured?

We're looking for a technically strong Senior Technical Designer to join one of Europe's leading retail marketing agencies, working on physical retail projects, POS displays, retail fixtures, brand activations and in-store environments for some of the world's most recognised consumer brands.

Strong professional Solid Works experience is essential for this position.

This isn't a traditional 3D visualisation or purely creative design role. We're looking for a Solid Works Designer / Technical Designer who understands how physical products, retail displays, POS, fixtures and branded environments are engineered, constructed and manufactured.

You'll take approved creative concepts and become the technical bridge between creative design and physical production – developing concepts into accurate 3D Solid Works models, technical drawings and manufacture-ready designs.

The Senior Solid Works Designer Role

As a Senior Technical Designer, you'll take ownership of the technical design process across a varied portfolio of retail, POS and brand activation projects.

Working closely with Project Managers, creative teams, suppliers, fabricators and manufacturing partners, you'll take approved creative concepts and develop them into technically resolved Solid Works designs ready for manufacture.

You'll produce detailed 3D CAD models, elevations, sections, assembly drawings, Bills of Materials (BOMs), specification sheets and manufacture-ready technical drawings, ensuring dimensional accuracy, structural integrity and manufacturing viability.

A major part of the role will involve technically interrogating designs before they reach production. You'll consider materials, tolerances, construction methods, manufacturing processes, costs and assembly requirements, identifying potential problems early and recommending practical solutions.

You'll also apply value engineering to improve manufacturing efficiency and cost without compromising the original creative concept.

Solid Works & Technical Design Experience

We're particularly interested in candidates with a strong background in Solid Works and technical design for physical manufacture.

Your experience should ideally include:

* Solid Works & 3D CAD: strong professional Solid Works experience, parametric 3D modelling, assemblies and detailed technical drawings.

* Retail / POS Design: retail displays, Point of Sale (POS), Point of Purchase (POP), retail fixtures, shopfitting, branded environments, exhibitions or brand activations.

* Manufacturing Design: manufacture-ready drawings, dimensions, tolerances, materials, construction methods, Bills of Materials and specification sheets.

* Production & Suppliers: working directly with manufacturers, fabricators and suppliers to resolve technical issues and ensure designs can be successfully manufactured.

You'll need to understand more than how something looks. You'll understand how it is made.

Experience working with materials such as timber, metal, acrylic, formed plastics and print would therefore be highly valuable, alongside an understanding of different fabrication and manufacturing processes.

What We're Looking For

The successful Senior Technical Designer / Solid Works Designer will have proven experience within a technical design environment involving physical manufacture.

We're particularly interested in people currently working as a Senior Technical Designer, Technical Designer, Solid Works Designer, CAD Designer, Senior CAD Designer, Technical CAD Designer, Retail Technical Designer, POS Designer, Retail Display Designer or Design Engineer.

Experience with in retail display, POS/POP, shopfitting, retail fixtures, exhibitions, experiential, brand activation or a similar manufactured environment would be particularly…