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Development Engineer

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 Dynamics simulation experience added benefit.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
Fluent in English. Additional languages are an added benefit.
Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment; adjusting effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements, or cultures.
Effectively meet customer needs; building productive customer relationships; taking responsibility for customer satisfaction by providing world class engineering support.
Clearly and succinctly conveying information and ideas to individuals and groups in a variety of situations; communicating in a focused and compelling way that drives others' thoughts and actions. Engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.
Originating action to improve existing conditions and processes; identifying improvement opportunities; generating ideas and implementing solutions.
Actively identifying new ideas for learning; regularly creating and taking advantage of learning opportunities; using newly gained knowledge and skill on the job and learning through their application.
Actively participating as a member of a team to move the team toward the completion of goals.
Taking prompt action to accomplish objectives; taking action to achieve goals beyond what is required; being proactive.
Effectively managing one's time and resources to ensure that work is completely efficiently and timeously.
To be able to work with numbers and figures and to subtract, add, multiply, divide, put together, classify or to get involved in any way of assessing numbers and figures at wide and diverse levels of difficulty or complexity and to produce an outcome or outcomes which are logical or could be seen/accepted to make sense.
To be able to see or compare, or to determine which objects or ideas either belong or do not belong together on the basis of similarities or differences or on the basis of any other features or characteristics that justify the drawing of any distinction between entities or objects of any kind, origin or consequence
Setting high standards of performance for self and others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed.

What is in it for you?

We offer you an interesting role in an international business environment, extraordinary products, great colleagues, and opportunities for your professional development. At Sandvik, we believe that diversity of experience, perspective and background will lead to a better environment for our employees, our business and, thereby, our customers. Visit our stories hub, LinkedIn or Facebook to get to know us better.

Application

Send your application as soon as possible as we will be evaluating candidates continuously, and no later than 06 November 2025.

Read more about Sandvik Group and apply at home.sandvik/career,

About us:

Sandvik Rock Processing is a business area within the Sandvik Group and a leading supplier of equipment, tools, parts, service and solutions for processing rock and minerals in the mining and construction industries. Application areas include crushing and screening, breaking and demolition.

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