Associate Design Engineer

Job Description

TEAM: Product Development

CLIENT: London

REPORTING TO: Senior Director, Product Engineering

ABOUT US

tms unites technology, marketing, and sourcing to drive transformational change for the world’s leading brands. With 1,200+ employees across 26 countries, we offer an impressive range of solutions – from inspiration and innovation to category management and delivery.

Operating as a creative agency, a strategic consultancy, a sourcing business, and a technology provider, we engage with over 110 million customers every single day for our clients, including McDonald’s, T-Mobile, O2, Starbucks, and adidas.

Most importantly, we're a place where you can achieve great things, and be recognized as the best.

WHAT MATTERS THE MOST

Breakthrough, business-driving ideas come from extraordinary people with the freedom to be their most authentic selves at work. Authenticity and diversity are critical elements of our business. They can only be realized when we create access and equity for all. We foster a culture of inclusion and belonging and aspire to be ever-evolving.

tms is a place where brilliant people are better together. If you want your ideas to be heard and to contribute to a culture of inclusion and authenticity, bring us your voice! Visit us at tmsw.com.

At tms we believe that from day one our job is to prepare you, develop you, train you and invest in you so that while with us you will become ready to take on the next challenge better prepared than you thought possible.

So whether you’re here for a meeting, a project, or a career – be prepared to Leave Changed.

WHY WE THINK YOU WILL LOVE THIS ROLE

The Associate Design Engineer supports the development of promotional toy products within the product design team, working under the guidance of a Lead Engineer. This role contributes engineering expertise throughout the concept, development, and pre‑production stages to ensure products are creative, safe, manufacturable, cost‑effective, and delivered on time. The engineer collaborates closely with cross‑functional partners including Design Engineering, Creative, Industrial Design, R&D, Client Services, and overseas engineering and costing teams.

WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO THE ORGANIZATION

• Provide engineering input/solutions to internal development teams to deliver products that are creative, safe, reliable, manufacturable, within cost parameters and on time with supervision from an engineering lead.
• Research and propose design solutions through sketches or prototypes during concept generation, model development, and pre-production stages.
• Support client and licensor concept/model/pre-production presentations.
• Develop specification packages to communicate and optimize product designs.
• Estimate product costs during concept development, modify designs, and negotiate costs as needed to meet established cost targets with supervision from an engineering lead.
• Participate in daily team meetings.
• Maintain all design engineering documentation including, but not limited to, design concepts, approval forms, change forms, prototypes, and pre-production samples.
• Perform other related duties as required and assigned.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO HAVE

• Education:
  • BS in Mechanical Engineering, General Engineering, or equivalent

• Experience:
  • 2 years work experience preferred
  • Experience working with an Asian vendor base is a plus

• Job Knowledge/Skills:
  • Communication skills – verbal and written
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office applications – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.
  • Ability to sketch conceptual ideas
  • Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop preferred

• Essential Physical/Other Requirements:
  • Required to lift and manage box shipments
  • Must be able to work under pressure and multi-task
  • Must be able to travel domestically and internationally

If you have any questions about the job, we are open to discussing this role further, so please feel free to get in touch.

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