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R&D Engineer

📍 Location
Hull
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
June 07, 2026

About the Role

Life. Unlimited.AtSmith+Nephewwe design and manufacture technology that takes the limits off living.

As an R&D Engineer within our Mechanical Engineering team, you will play a key role in shaping the next generation of medical devices. Based at our Hull site, this is an opportunity to work at the heart of New Product Development, where your ideas, technical curiosity and attention to detail will directly contribute to improving patient outcomes around the world.

What will you be doing?

You will be part of a collaborative R&D environment, working across the full product lifecycle from early conceptthroughclinical trials and manufacturing. Day to day, you will plan and deliver engineering work packages, applying a structured, systems-based approach to development and balancing technicalrigor, withpractical problem solving. 

You will translate user and product needs into clear engineering requirements, design, build and evaluate prototypes, and wor...

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