The Product Development Engineer role reports into the Ground Support R&D Team.
The R&D Department is a collaborative and high-performing team of multidisciplinary engineers who liaise with both internal and external customers to develop innovative ground support and monitoring products and advance scientific knowledge within this field. As a Product Development Engineer, you will continuously develop your understanding of mechanical engineering principals as well as advanced ground support technology, and apply this knowledge towards the design and optimisation of new ground support systems, with a focus on integrating these products into other applicable technologies offered by the Group, such as mechanised mining equipment and digital technologies.
Core responsibilities include; 
Participate in customer engagement via the marketing team to understand customer requirements and conceptualise solutions. 
Design, develop and validate scalable product solutions to meet requirements.
Full project life-cycle Management and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to convert conceptual ideas into scalable and marketable products. 
Professional communication both written and verbal. 
Mentoring and development of Junior team members 
Support marketing team during development of high value projects 
On-site technical support