Graduate Project Design Engineer

Job Description

Location: C D E Group Ltd, H1, Kilcronagh Business Park

WE ARE CDE.

HERE TO CREATE OUR BEST WORLD, A TON AT A TIME.

Sand is a finite resource, and it’s running out. Today, population growth and the pace of progress means the world is devouring sand like never before – 50 billion tonnes a year globally. This demand is unsustainable. Together with our customers we have already diverted over 100 million tonnes of waste material from landfill and put it back into the materials market for use in construction; protecting sand & aggregates in areas where natural material reserves are in decline and enabling production to happen closer to markets. We are minimising environmental impact and laying the foundations for the circular economy.

At CDE we work across the natural processing and waste recycling sectors, in five regions, to pioneer industry-leading, world-changing engineering solutions. Our headquarters are in Northern Ireland, and we have offices in the USA, Australia, Austria, and Brazil. For over 30 years we have relentlessly innovated and co-created wet processing solutions – completing over 2,000 global projects – and we’re only getting started. Our purpose is to create our best world, a ton at a time; empowering our customers to transform their materials into valuable resources for the betterment of people, planet, and their bottom lines.

Discover more about life at CDE www.cdegroup.com

About The Role

Job Purpose

Your role will be key to our business success, this position will expose you to more aspects of the business you will assist to ensure live projects are planned and executed in accordance with the business capacity and customer requirements. In this role you will ensure that we are able to simply deliver for our customers

Roles And Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate with and assist senior designers to manage projects and focus on reducing cost and cycle time on current plant equipment.
• Participate in Quality reviews and processes.
• Create BOM’s, layouts and fabrication drawings for projects and manage and liaise with customers and suppliers on design specifics/aesthetics & plant requirements.
• Participate in Research and development projects.
• Supporting the sales team through preliminary technical specifications, site visits and technical advice on the products/process
• Working as a member of the operations team to constantly strive for continuous improvements through improving processes and product development.
• Learning all aspects of the business to become a well-rounded engineer.

Participate in continuous improvement activities to enhance product quality, profitability and customer satisfaction.

Visit our customer sites regularly to ensure support with snags and provide design support,

Develop skills and knowledge to be able to manage and design Projects from initial sales contact through sign off to customer.

Adhere to all CDE’s policies.

NB: Please note, this job description is not exhaustive as other duties may be required to fulfil the requirements of the role.

Skills Needed

People

About The Company

WE ARE CDE. ENGINEERED FOR YOU We empower our customers to transform waste into valuable resources through innovative co-creation, laying the foundations for the circular economy. We help our customers maximise their natural resources in the most sustainable way possible – with greater efficiency and less waste than ever before. Our unparalleled speed and scale are down to our proximity to our customers and our deep understanding of their challenges. Our track record of proven solutions consistently meets our customers’ needs precisely, operating in challenging environments from the Arctic to the Equator. Wet processing is our sole focus –our experience and expertise is unmatched in this field. Every day, in everything we do, we strive to do it right. We want to be the best at what we do and deliver the maximum benefit for our customers. We pull together, as a team, in pursuit of this common cause. Our “Customer for Life” mentality fortifies each of our projects, with CDE engineers delivering continuous, limitless support.

Company Culture

We recognise that it is our people that have established CDE as market leader in developing solutions for the wet processing industry both within natural materials processing and waste recycling sectors. OUR PURPOSE IS TO CREATE OUR BEST WORLD, A TON AT A TIME. To do that, we must continue to build our global team by adding the most ambitious, driven and talented people. We will challenge you, elevate you and broaden your horizons. We will help you to be the best you can be both personally and professionally. We are renowned for our energy and can do attitude…. and at times seemingly delivering the impossible. We also know that all the will in the world won’t take us anywhere unless we work together. And we like to have fun together - life’s too short and we spend most of it at work. If we lose the power to laugh, we lose the power to think. We will continue to add the most dynamic, ambitious and talented individuals to the CDE team.

Required Criteria

• Educated to degree or HND/HNC level in an Engineering discipline.
• Proficient use of all Microsoft packages
• The ability to communicate effectively in writing, orally, and through presentations.

Ability to work unsupervised and plan own workload

Committed to H&S

Dependable and reliable

Enthusiastic, energetic self-starter able to work on own initiative

Available to work flexible hours.

Willingness and ability to travel frequently.

Current driving licence and vehicle insured for business use

Clearance to work in UK

Desired Criteria

Closing DateFriday 13th March, 2026

Contract Typefulltime

SalaryBased on Experience