New Product Development & Quality Engineer

<p>Job Description</p><br>A variety of soft skills and experience may be required for the following role Please ensure you check the overview below carefully.<br><p>New Product Development & Quality Engineer</p><p>Location: Mansfield (with travel to manufacturers and trial stores) Salary: £42,000 – £48,000 + £6,500 car allowance + 25 days holiday Type: Permanent, Full Time | 08:30 – 17:00 Mon–Fri</p><p>The Company</p><p>A well-established business based in Derbyshire, part of a wider European group, supplying products and solutions into the retail sector. Their offering covers a broad range of physical items you'd find in and around retail stores — the kind of things most shoppers walk past every day without giving a second thought, but which take considerable engineering and project management to deliver.</p><p>The product development team is expanding, and this is a newly reinstated role sitting at the heart of it.</p><p>The Role</p><p>This is a genuine hybrid position, split between new product development and quality, and it's a great opportunity for someone who has built a solid quality foundation and now wants to do something broader with it.</p><p>You'll be taking new products from initial brief through to finished, tested item. That means working closely with designers and manufacturers, building and testing prototypes, and making sure what gets delivered to a retailer's shop floor actually does what it's supposed to. Topple testing, weight testing, push and pull, fit for function — all of that sits with you.</p><p>Alongside the development work, you'll be helping to build and embed quality processes within a young and growing team. The business hasn't had a dedicated quality function until recently, so there's real scope here to shape how things are done and leave your mark.</p><p>At any one time you'll be juggling multiple projects at different stages — some active, some in prototyping, some just coming in — so the ability to keep several plates spinning without dropping any is essential.</p><p>There will be regular travel to manufacturers, all UK-based and manageable as day trips, and occasional visits to trial stores. The role is predominantly Tibshelf-based with some flexibility to work from home, particularly on Fridays when workload allows. xwzovoh </p><p>What We're Looking For</p><ul><li>A background in quality, ideally within a product, manufacturing or retail environment</li><li>Hands-on experience of product testing or inspection</li><li>Comfortable working in a fast-moving, changeable environment where priorities shift and clients evolve their briefs mid-project</li><li>Organised, pragmatic and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously</li><li>An understanding of quality processes and standards — you don't need to be deeply certified, but you need to know what good looks like</li><li>Retail, construction or any similarly fast-paced sector background will be well regarded</li><li>A full UK driving licence is required</li></ul><p>Why This Role?</p><p>This is the kind of position that suits someone who is good at quality but wants more variety in their day. You won't be stuck in a lab or tied to one product line — you'll be involved in genuinely interesting, bespoke projects for major retailers, working in a close-knit team that has a lot of long-serving people in it, which tells a story of its own.</p><p>The team is busy, the work is varied, and there's real room to grow as the function develops around you. INDH</p>