Graduate Design Engineer – Healthcare (2027 start)

Product Design, Manufacturing.

Introduction

We are looking for an exceptional Industrial Designer to join our award-winning creative team. Our design team create breakthrough physical and digital products for some of the world’s most innovative brands.

This is a hands-on role where the ability to visualise and deliver exciting user centred solutions, primarily in the healthcare sector but also in consumer and other industries, is essential.

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This position offers an excellent opportunity to immerse yourself in a fast-paced, diverse, and creative environment, whilst contributing your own flair to our team.

Successful candidates can join us between May – October 2027.

There is no deadline for this role, as we recruit on a rolling basis. Once the position is filled, we will close the advert. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Your role 

Championing user experience and brand is central to our work at CC, and Industrial Designers lead this thinking for our clients. You will work in diverse multifunctional project teams together with highly talented engineers, scientists and designers to generate innovative solutions and develop world-leading medical, consumer and wider products for our clients around the globe.

You will be using your design skills to contribute to a wide variety of development projects with support and guidance from seniors, from initial idea generation through to the delivery and manufacturing support for market ready products.

At Cambridge Consultants we work on complex and challenging briefs and our clients look to us to shape their futures. You will work alongside other designers to craft compelling design outputs.

Specific responsibilities

Day to day you will use your core skills in industrial design, sketching, and design thinking to:

  • Participate in concept generation and problem-solving workshops
  • Create clear and impactful presentations to convey ideas to clients and development teams. There will be opportunities to interact with clients.
  • Prepare designs at a range of fidelities i.e., from sketches to detailed 3D renders or animations
  • Manufacture prototypes, hands-on or by liaising with suppliers
  • Evaluate user needs and designs at user studies
  • Share your skills and experience with the wider design team whilst also receiving mentorship from experienced designers

What you’ll need

A successful designer at CC will:

  • Be a talented and creative Industrial Designer who is an enthusiastic team player
  • A top degree in Industrial Design, Product Design or a related design discipline
  • An excellent portfolio demonstrating your visual flair, meticulous attention to detail and ability to communicate innovative designs in a clear and attractive way.
  • Mastery of graphical presentation tools (e.g. hand sketching, Creative Cloud, 3D rendering)
  • Strong ability to use CAD tools to design attractive, functional and manufacturable designs (e.g., SolidWorks)
  • Excellent verbal and written storytelling/ idea communication skills

Additionally, experience designing a digital and physical user experience would be advantageous although not a necessity.

We cannot accept applications that do not include a portfolio. 

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  • Deadline
    Ongoing
  • Starting
    May - October 2027
  • Salary
    Competitive + benefits
  • Degree required
    2:1 and above
  • Location
    Cambridge
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Disciplines Accepted...
  • Manufacturing
  • Product Design
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