Senior Mechanical Designer or Product Designer

6 months ago


Bristol, United Kingdom Tailfin Cycling Full time

**Senior Mechanical Designer or Product Designer Job**

Tailfin | Bristol | Salary: Competitive & based on experience

**The Company**

At Tailfin, we design, engineer and manufacture technical bikepacking equipment.

Based in the heart of Bristol, we're a small but growing team of bike lovers who are passionate about the outdoors, innovation and breaking the status quo.

**The Role**

Your role will offer you the perfect opportunity to lead projects and use your knowledge and experience to offer innovative solutions to bring products from concept through to manufacture and beyond.

As we continue to grow as a company, we can offer you a multitude of projects to be involved in and the opportunity for you to develop as an individual.

**About You**
- 10+ Years of relevant professional experience
- A passion for bicycles and/or a love of the outdoors
- Background in one of the following types of company: Product design consultancy, Technology start-up, Consumer product brand, Sporting goods brand
- Track record of developing products from concept through to production, taking responsibility for quality, time and cost.
- Highly creative and highly technical in many of the following areas: concept generation, detailed mechanism design, mechanics and simulation, developing test rigs and product testing, manufacturing processes, design for high and low volume manufacturing, Transfer to manufacture
- Practical prototype making skills to make use of our equipment including 3D printer, laser cutter and lots of other tools for quickly carrying out real-world testing of ideas
- Good degree in Mechanical Design, Product Design or similar
- Confidence and ability to present your concepts and ideas in a team environment
- Self starter, conscientious and ability thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Willingness to travel and meet suppliers in Asia
- Ideally based in Bristol, as we feel working together always works better and you can be part of a growing culture and get involved with team rides and social events.
- Expert user of Solidworks
- Expert user of Excel
- Adobe Suite Skills could be of benefit (Photoshop, Illustrator, XD)

**Salary**: From £30,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Bristol: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

- What kind of riding or outdoors activities are you in to?
- Have you submitted a portfolio?
- Have you heard of Tailfin? (it's ok if you haven't)

**Language**:

- English (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Senior Mechanical or Product Designer



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