If you’re looking for a progressive and rewarding career and you thrive in a fast-paced, fun and team-orientated environment, then look no further!

Overview of Vax:

Our heritage-rich, expert-led business has always had the same goal: to prioritize innovation and to design easy-to-use products that seamlessly integrate into our customers' lives, offering reliable, quick solutions to cleaning homes, whatever the mess.

Vax has forged its reputation as a brand that focuses on the needs of its customers. Our culture of innovation is at the heart of everything we do and we work hard to constantly think of new ways to improve our products, ensuring that we deliver premium quality products for our customers.

Senior Advanced Development Engineer

Global Floorcare, part of TTI, is home to two iconic floorcare brands: Vax and Hoover. 

Together, we combine decades of expertise with a passion for innovation, creating products that make cleaning faster, easier and more effective for millions of customers around the world. 

Our success is built on understanding the needs of consumers and continuously pushing the boundaries of what's possible in floorcare. Backed by the scale and strength of a global business, we are committed to developing high-quality, innovative solutions that deliver exceptional performance and help people care for their homes with confidence.

We work on a hybrid basis; this role will be working 4 days onsite and 1 day working from home

As a Senior Advanced Development engineer, you’ll develop innovative technologies, product concepts and engineering solutions that shape our future innovation pipeline. Working at the front end of product development, you’ll combine consumer understanding with exceptional product engineering to rapidly create, prove and mature ideas before they transition into NPD.

Working alongside Design Research, Industrial Design, Advanced Electrical and Technical Engineering, you’ll transform opportunities into compelling prototypes and demonstrators that inspire confidence, reduce technical uncertainty and influence future product direction.

Key Duties include:

• Develop innovative technologies, product concepts and engineering solutions from opportunities uncovered through design research through to validated proof of concept.
• Translate consumer & user feedback into practical, creative and technically credible product and technology solutions.
• Rapidly build high quality prototypes and demonstrator rigs that support technical learning, user testing and stakeholder engagement.
• Apply strong product engineering principles and manufacturing knowledge to develop concepts which are innovative, feasible and commercially viable.
• Support technical de risking through structured experimentation, engineering analysis, testing and rapid iterations. Failing fast and learning with pace.
• Contribute to technical and design reviews, communicating engineering recommendations with clarity and confidence.
• Collaborate clearly with Design Research and Industrial Design to create concepts that bring future consumer experiences to life in user research.
• Work with supplier and global engineering teams to develop concept designs, engineering solutions and supporting CAD.
• Continuously improve concept quality, engineering methods and ways of working through curiosity, experimentation and practical problem solving.

What we’re looking for

You’re an exceptional product design engineer who enjoys creating products and developing technologies that don’t exist yet. You combine creativity with strong engineering fundamentals, think in bigger picture as well as the details and instinctively build to learn. Whether you’re sketching ideas, developing CAD, building prototypes or presenting concepts, you’re driven by solving real consumer problems through practical engineering.

Skills, Experience & Competencies

• Bachelor’s degree (BA, BSc, BEng) in Industrial, Product Design or Mechanical Engineering or related discipline. (Master’s advantageous but not required).
• 5+ Years experience in Advanced Development, Concept Engineering or innovative consumer product development.
• Strong understanding of consumer product engineering, mechanical design and manufacturing processes including injection moulding, die casting, sheet metal, elastomers, machining and Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMEA).
• Proven experience developing product concepts and enabling technologies through rapid prototyping, experimentation and technical de risking.
• Excellent CAD capability, with experience creating concept layouts, engineering solutions and functional prototypes.
• Strong understanding of product architecture, mechanisms, material selections, tolerance considerations and engineering trade-offs. Cost, Spec, Time & Quality.
• Practical, hands on engineering capability with experience using workshop equipment, rapid prototyping methods and manufacturing techniques to quickly validate ideas.
• Experience collaborating with suppliers and teams in Asia to develop concepts, CAD and engineering solutions.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity, creating structure and driving technical work forward proactively.
• Excellent communication, presentation and storytelling skills, capable of communicating technical concepts with clarity and confidence

​What Makes You Successful

• Concept Engineering: You transform opportunities into technologies and compelling product concepts.
• Product Engineering: Apply strong engineering and manufacturing knowledge to create both creative and viable technical solutions.
• Rapid Learning: You prototype, test and iterate quickly to reduce uncertainty and mature concepts.
• Systems Thinker: Understand the complete product you’re designing and engineering, balancing consumer, performance and commercial needs.
• Practical Innovator: You instinctively find the quickest, smartest way to build, test and demonstrate an idea.
• Influence: You communicate clearly, tell compelling technical stories and build confidence through evidence and demonstration.

At Vax we are committed to being an equal opportunity employer. We believe in creating a supportive environment where everyone can thrive and grow.

If you're looking to join a forward-thinking company that values collaboration, innovation, and impact — we’d love to hear from you.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will do what we can to support you.

Please note: Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application. We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role.

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Vax is made up of people who have a shared understanding of our mission and vision. Our values define who we are and what we stand for;

Trust – We’re experts and everything we do is based on brilliant knowledge.

Honesty – Our commitment to doing the right means we are always open and transparent.

Resilience – For decades, we have embraced change and been agile in what we do. We aren’t easily discouraged.

Innovation – We’re curious and explore opportunities, innovating to benefit our customers and business.

Valued – We are better when each of us feels included and respected for who we are and what we contribute.

Energy – We are positive thinkers, excited about what we do.