Design Engineer

Job Title: Design Engineer

Role Overview:

• Team Support: Support the design office team by facilitating knowledge transfer to enhance skills and fulfill knowledge gaps where necessary to complete quality drawings for the effective progress of the project.
• Project Design Facilitation: Facilitate the project team by coordinating requirements for each stage of the process and ensure the design complies with both EN & BS standards, gain client approval, interface with the factories and operations team for design related challenges.
• Customer Focus: Build and maintain relationships with internal/external customers by understanding customer needs and serving as a key contact to address design challenges on projects.
• Process Compliance: Compliance with organizational processes and procedures to ensure smooth and accurate drawings preparation including control of tender drawings, verifying the output and ensuring effective controls are being followed in order to meet customer commitments.

On a typical day you will:

• Work alongside the sales and installation field teams regarding design and secondary structural steel for the modernizations of existing lifts, incorporating any required adaptations of existing shafts for the installation of new MRL based elevators into existing buildings.
• Work with the field teams for adaptations for new components into existing units that are under modernization.

What You Will Need to be Successful:

• Creating 2D and 3D models in mechanical engineering software, e.g., AutoCAD or Microstation.
• Knowledge of other software desirable.
• Creating and interpreting General Arrangement drawings as well as detailed manufacturing drawings.
• A good theoretical and practical knowledge and experience of Design Calculations and FEA with special emphasis on Stress and Deformation static analysis.
• Previous Experience within the Elevator and Escalator industry and knowledge of EN81 and/or EN115 desirable.
• Master's Degree in Engineering or similar.

About Otis:

Otis is the world’s leading elevator and escalator manufacturing, installation, and service company. We move 2 billion people every day and maintain approximately 2.2 million customer units worldwide, the industry's largest Service portfolio. You may recognize our products in some of the world’s most famous landmarks including the Eiffel Tower, Empire State Building, Burj Khalifa, and the Petronas Twin Towers!

We are 69,000 people strong, including engineers, digital technology experts, sales, and functional specialists, as well as factory and field technicians, all committed to meeting the diverse needs of our customers and passengers in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.

We are proud to be a diverse, global team with a proven legacy of innovation that continues to be the bedrock of a fast-moving, high-performance company. When you join Otis, you become part of an innovative global industry leader with a resilient business model.

You’ll belong to a diverse, trusted, and caring community where your contributions, and the skills and capabilities you’ll gain working alongside the best and brightest, keep us connected and on the cutting edge. We provide opportunities, training, and resources, that build leadership and capabilities in Sales, Field, Engineering, and Major Projects and our Employee Scholar Program is a notable point of pride, through which Otis sponsors colleagues to pursue degrees or certification programs.

Today, our focus more than ever is on people. As a global, people-powered company, we put people – passengers, customers, and colleagues – at the center of everything we do. We are guided by our values that we call our Three Absolutes – prioritizing Safety, Ethics, Quality in all that we do.

Become a part of the Otis team and help us #Buildwhatsnext!

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Otis is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age, or any other federally protected class.

To request an accommodation in completing an employment application due to a special need or a disability, please contact us at careers@otis.com.

We go to great lengths to hire and develop the best people, and offer a supportive environment where employees are motivated and empowered to perform at their full potential. Today, we continue pushing the boundaries of what's possible to thrive in a taller, faster, smarter world.