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Sandvik Johannesburg, Gauteng 5 months ago
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Engineering
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Job Details

🏢 Company: Sandvik 
🌍 Group: Sandvik Group
📍 Location: Spartan, Kempton Park – Johannesburg, South Africa
🗂️ Employment Type: Full-Time
📄 Position: Development Engineer
🆔 Job Requisition ID: R0084504
📅 Closing Date: 04 March 2026

🏢 Company Overview

Sandvik Rock Processing is a division of Sandvik Group and a global leader in equipment, tools, parts, and services for processing rock and minerals in mining and construction industries.

The business focuses on crushing, screening, breaking, and demolition solutions, combining advanced engineering with sustainability-driven innovation.

Sandvik operates internationally and promotes diversity, technical excellence, and continuous professional development within a high-performance engineering culture.

📌 Job Overview

The Development Engineer forms part of the Engineering R&D Department and reports to the Engineering R&D Manager.

The role is responsible for discovering, developing, validating, and commercialising new product concepts and enhancements. It involves translating research insights into practical, manufacturable, and market-ready engineering solutions.

The position combines advanced mechanical design, CAD/CAE modelling, structural analysis, field testing, and cross-functional collaboration with manufacturing and product teams.

🛠️ Key Responsibilities

1️⃣ Product Development & Innovation

  • Evaluate new product concepts for technical and commercial viability

  • Develop new products and strategic extensions to existing product lines

  • Translate customer needs into detailed functional specifications

  • Design, test, and integrate components into final product designs

  • Assess product reliability, safety, cost efficiency, and manufacturability

2️⃣ Engineering Design & Modelling

  • Perform advanced 3D CAD modelling and drafting

  • Use Siemens NX and Teamcenter for design management

  • Conduct Finite Element Analysis (FEA) simulations

  • Perform structural integrity and dynamic analysis

  • Develop engineering calculations and first-principle assessments

  • Maintain compliance with in-house modelling and detailing standards

3️⃣ Testing, Validation & Performance Evaluation

  • Develop and execute fitness-for-use testing plans

  • Conduct laboratory and field test measurements

  • Validate product specifications and process validation plans

  • Eliminate non-conformance reports (NCRs) through thorough drawing and BOM verification

4️⃣ Manufacturing Collaboration

  • Work closely with manufacturing management to ensure design-for-manufacture (DFM)

  • Ensure welding accessibility and fabrication feasibility

  • Evaluate steel section availability and plate bending constraints

  • Optimise Bill of Materials (BOM) structures

  • Collaborate with contract manufacturers and internal production partners

5️⃣ Customer & Pre-Sales Support

  • Analyse customer technical requirements

  • Propose appropriate engineering solutions

  • Conduct site visits, including measurement-taking

  • Respond to complex technical product queries

  • Assist with development and delivery of training materials

6️⃣ Standards & Continuous Improvement

  • Generate internal engineering standards

  • Participate in development of technical documentation and training material

  • Review initial design intent to identify structural or design weaknesses

  • Support shared ETO and R&D resource allocation across teams when required

🎓 Qualifications

  • BEng Mechanical Engineering (required)

  • MEng Mechanical Engineering (advantageous)

💼 Experience Requirements

  • 3–5 years advanced 3D CAD modelling and drafting experience

  • Experience in sheet metal fabrication industries

  • Welding specification knowledge

  • Strong FEA and structural simulation exposure

  • Field or laboratory test & measurement experience

  • Previous R&D experience preferred

  • Proficiency in Siemens NX & Teamcenter

  • Exposure to Solid Edge or similar CAD tools advantageous

🧠 Technical Competencies

  • Proficiency in Python or similar programming language

  • Finite Element Analysis simulation capability

  • Multibody Dynamics simulation experience (advantageous)

  • Strong numerical reasoning and analytical capability

  • Strong Microsoft Office proficiency

  • Fluent in English

🤝 Behavioural Competencies

  • Adaptability to changing environments

  • Strong customer-centric mindset

  • Clear technical communication skills

  • Initiative and proactive problem-solving

  • Continuous learning orientation

  • Effective teamwork participation

  • High standards of accountability

  • Strong time and resource management

  • Strong quantitative reasoning and analytical thinking

🧠 CV Tips for Development Engineer Role

To improve your application strength:

  • Detail CAD platforms used and project scale

  • Include FEA case studies and analysis results

  • Quantify improvements in design efficiency or cost reduction

  • Highlight sheet metal and fabrication optimisation experience

  • Demonstrate R&D exposure and prototype validation

  • Showcase programming experience (Python applications in engineering context)

  • Include examples of design-for-manufacture collaboration

Recruiters will prioritise demonstrable design-to-production experience.

🏛️ Company Policy & Work Environment

Sandvik promotes:

  • Equal opportunity employment

  • Workplace diversity and inclusion

  • Ethical engineering practices

  • Continuous professional development

  • Global collaboration across engineering teams

The company values innovation, sustainability, and engineering excellence in serving the mining and construction sectors.