BURN designs, manufactures, and distributes aspirational fuel-efficient cooking products that save lives and forests in the developing world. BURN has revolutionized the global cookstove sector by proving the business case for selling a high quality, locally manufactured and unsubsidized cookstoves
Summary
- BURN is seeking a highly motivated and skilled Design Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of mechanical design principles, experience using SolidWorks, and proficiency in Design for Experimentation (DOE) and Design for Manufacturing (DFM) methodologies.
- They will also have excellent analytical skills and the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Conceptual and detailed design of cookware, clean-burning cookstoves and accessories for East Africa
- Research and developing manufacturing processes including designing tools to bring the product into production.
- Fabrication of prototypes, including sheet metal forming, 3d printing and others.
- Testing concepts and prototypes in the lab and field.
- Plastic part design for injection moulding
- Any other duties as assigned.
Skills and Experience:
- Engineering, product development, or industrial design background.
- Experience working in the conceptual phase, physical prototyping, hands-on testing and user interaction.
- Ability to independently initiate and implement design and development of product features and production processes.
- Good command of CAD software; Solidworks.
- Fluency with a wide range of manufacturing processes, Plastic injection moulding, sheet metal forming.
- Good understanding of material; Metals and plastics.
- Familiar with basic tool shop equipment and tools, such as drill press, mill, lathe, etc.
- Capable to manage workload and priorities of all assigned projects.
- Project documentation skills.
- 3D or 2D visualization skills either in product rendering or graphic design.
- Goal-oriented
- Fluent in English
- Mechanical aptitude, understanding of product and process development.
- Experience in tooling, jigs, and fixtures design.
- Experience with sheet metal plastic part design.
- Works well in a team setting.
- Practical working experience.
- Preference for experience with CNC, sheet metal, production environments, or process development.
