Top Design Jobs in Bristol

Leads Boeing’s BDUK Design Center and Production Engineering teams, overseeing design, maintenance, modifications, manufacturing engineering, and Material Review Board activities. Responsibilities include engineering delivery, resource planning, recruitment, people leadership, technical governance, budget management, risk management, operational strategy, and business growth. The role requires knowledge of UK military airworthiness regulations and the ability to obtain UK Security Check clearance.

Leads Boeing Defence UK’s multidisciplinary Design and Support Engineering team across product design, manufacturing, repair, sustainment, and lifecycle support. Responsibilities include managing engineers and stakeholders, owning technical decisions, developing requirements and design baselines, overseeing CAD and verification activities, managing suppliers, improving manufacturing processes, supporting bids, and ensuring regulatory and MRO deliverables. The role requires aerospace engineering expertise, tooling and materials knowledge, leadership experience, and eligibility for UK SC clearance.

Designs high-voltage substations and associated equipment for grid-scale energy infrastructure projects across the UK, Ireland, and overseas. Responsibilities include producing primary plant layouts, developing equipment specifications, supporting renewable energy projects, acting as an Owner’s Engineer, contributing to multidisciplinary infrastructure projects, and providing client-facing technical services. The role may also involve design reviews, technical reporting, construction witnessing, and site visits.

Lead HV substation design for major UK and Ireland energy infrastructure projects. Produce primary plant layouts, cable routes, equipment and tender specifications, design assurance, supplier evaluations, manufacturing audits, FAT participation, commissioning support, and fault resolution. Serve as a trusted client partner, contribute to project development and detailed design, manage multidisciplinary engineering activities, and mentor junior engineers.

Leads Corian Design sales across EMEA markets, owning revenue, profitability, pricing, market share, forecasting, and channel performance. Develops commercial strategies, manages distributors and fabricators, converts specifications into sales, and builds high-performing regional sales teams. Partners cross-functionally with Marketing, Supply Chain, Customer Service, Finance, and technical teams to drive growth, commercial excellence, and customer value.

Design, develop, verify and optimise bespoke low-voltage electrical power distribution systems and equipment for naval and marine customers. Liaise with multidisciplinary teams, author technical documentation, support manufacture and testing, present design information in reviews, and occasionally travel to customer and supplier sites.

Develop mechanical designs across the full product lifecycle, from requirements and concepts through detailed design, verification, validation, and production handover. Create 3D CAD models, assemblies, BOMs, and engineering drawings; apply FEA and engineering analysis; develop prototypes and testing plans; review drawings; support NPI and production tooling; and collaborate with manufacturing, assembly, marketing, and other stakeholders.

Oversee the end-to-end design management of large-scale data centre projects, coordinating design packages, stakeholders, vendors, BIM teams, technical submittals, permits, quality assurance, temporary works, and construction-phase support. The role reviews design and construction documentation, manages RFIs and risk reviews, ensures compliance with client standards, resolves design issues, and maintains accurate as-built drawings and BIM models through project completion.

Designs and technically oversees verification and validation rig test solutions for Rolls-Royce Defence development programmes. Responsibilities include managing internal and subcontracted design work, checking and approving product definitions, ensuring regulatory and customer compliance, managing technical risk, supporting suppliers, improving rig design processes, and coaching designers. The role supports gas turbine development testing and future programmes including Tempest.

Leads end-to-end high-voltage substation design from grid connection studies and concept development through FEED, detailed design, construction review, and energisation. Manages technical delivery, client and multidisciplinary coordination, quality assurance, resourcing, proposals, costs, safety-in-design, and commercial opportunities. Requires extensive UK and Ireland transmission-sector experience, strong AC HV plant knowledge across AIS and GIS, National Grid standards expertise, and the ability to mentor engineers and lead major infrastructure projects.

Designs and supports high-voltage substation and related transmission infrastructure projects across the UK and Ireland. Responsibilities include producing primary plant layouts, developing equipment specifications, contributing engineering design input, supporting Owners’ Engineer assignments, and providing HV design input for renewable energy projects. The role also involves technical report writing, multi-project collaboration, design reviews, and occasional construction site activities, with mentorship from experienced engineers.

Reviews mechanical and piping design documentation for compliance with applicable requirements, records and communicates observations, supports convergence meetings, contributes surveillance KPIs, and identifies potential issues for mitigation. Requires mechanical engineering knowledge, experience designing piping in highly regulated environments, familiarity with engineering construction practices, materials, trades, legal requirements, and design codes including EN 13480, ASME III, and RCC-M.

Lead electrical engineering design management across multidisciplinary infrastructure and real estate projects. Responsibilities include managing consultants and contractors, providing technical assurance, reviewing constructability, coordinating design interfaces, guiding compliant and sustainable engineering solutions, and ensuring lifecycle maintainability, reliability, health, safety, and environmental performance. The role requires collaboration with clients, project managers, engineers, contractors, and stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.

Manage multidisciplinary engineering design across infrastructure and real estate projects from concept through delivery. Responsibilities include technical assurance, constructability reviews, design interface management, consultant and contractor coordination, stakeholder liaison, regulatory compliance, and integration of mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, and geotechnical functions. The role emphasizes buildable, sustainable, maintainable, and reliable design solutions throughout the asset lifecycle.

Develops fluid-system designs for nuclear engineering projects, including 2D CAD drawings, 3D CAD/BIM models, piping layouts, isometrics, and technical documentation. Performs layout optimization and participates in design and model reviews. Ensures compliance with safety factors, standards, legislation, quality requirements, and project constraints. Collaborates with multidisciplinary engineering teams and suppliers while maintaining design records, databases, schedules, budgets, and health and safety standards.

Design and support electrical and plant control systems for engine and rig test facilities. Responsibilities include establishing system specifications, leading electrical capability solutions, troubleshooting operational systems, applying updated technologies and standards, participating in design reviews, and producing wiring schematics in AutoCAD. The role requires electrical engineering qualifications, BS 7671 certification, hazardous-area design experience, plant control knowledge, and system diagnosis skills.

Entry-level engineer supporting sealing and polymer-based product development. Responsibilities include customer application support, material selection, CAD modeling, technical analysis, testing and validation, engineering documentation, product failure investigations, quality processes, and continuous improvement. The role collaborates with engineering, manufacturing, quality, sales, and customers while developing expertise in materials, product design, manufacturing processes, and application engineering.

Leads application engineering and design analysis for polymer sealing solutions across aerospace, semiconductor, energy, industrial, and life sciences markets. Partners with customers, sales, manufacturing, and quality teams to develop designs, select materials, analyze failures, validate products, approve drawings, improve processes, and resolve performance issues. Provides technical leadership, mentors engineers, supports industry standards, presents technical findings, and leads cross-functional innovation projects.

Find, qualify, pitch, and close clients seeking web design, website development, e-commerce, or digital product services. Responsibilities include outreach through LinkedIn, cold email, calls, and professional networks; lead follow-up; discovery call coordination; and deal closing with support from the technical team. Compensation is commission-based, with flexibility to work remotely and potential progression to a base retainer plus commission.

Designs and implements DFT architectures and specifications for ASIC/SoC products. Responsibilities include scan insertion, ATPG pattern development, compression and clock-control insertion, optimizing test coverage and power, and pre- and post-silicon verification and debug. The role also requires gate-level simulation, failure analysis, scripting, and collaboration across product teams.

Lead the strategy and hands-on development of platform-wide design systems, including scalable interaction patterns, UX frameworks, mobile experiences, and AI-driven design-quality tools. Partner with engineers, product managers, and designers to improve design consistency and implementation quality across complex B2B products. Own initiatives from problem identification through prototyping and delivery while maintaining strong visual, interaction, accessibility, and code-adjacent design craft.

Lead and manage analog IC design efforts, collaborating with engineers in Bristol and international partner sites to shape products and teams, drive technical direction, and ensure project delivery and cross-site coordination.

As a Test Design Engineer, you will lead the design of test solutions for aerospace and defence systems, ensuring compliance with standards and customer requirements. You will collaborate with stakeholders and integrate testing systems throughout the product lifecycle.

Designs, develops, validates, and implements automated assembly and test systems for manufacturing. Responsibilities include creating test rigs, tooling, fixtures, software, and control solutions; integrating sensors and motion systems; analyzing process data; documenting designs and validation; investigating production issues; and supporting continuous improvement. The role collaborates across mechanical, electrical, software, manufacturing, and product development teams throughout the product lifecycle.

Supports motion design projects across brand identities, digital experiences, campaigns, social content, and film. Creates animation tests, motion studies, and short-form animations; assists with storyboards, visual research, asset preparation, file organization, rendering, and exports. Participates in creative reviews, presents work, and develops designs based on feedback.