Andrew Downing, a design engineer at Stiltz Home Lifts, shares insights into his role refining home lift designs, testing prototypes, and thriving in Stiltz’s dynamic and innovative culture.
Continuing with this week’s theme of National Careers Week 2020, we are now looking at the role of an engineer within Stiltz Home Lifts. In engineering, there are so many different career directions you can choose from: mechanical, technical, electrical, design, civil, structural, plus many more.
We have interviewed Andrew Downing, a design engineer, based at our Kingswinford Head Office, to delve a little deeper into what his job entails.
Previously Andrew worked as an architectural technician designing houses and moving on to work as a mechanical engineer designing passenger lifts. After 10 years Andrew was looking for a new challenge and a role that combined what he has been working on previously, “Stiltz looked like an interesting and fast-growing company where I could utilise and develop the skills and knowledge I had gained in my previous roles.” said Andrew.
“Here at Stiltz, we have a full team of technical and design engineers who are constantly working on improving and developing our current products and researching new potential products”. What does a design engineer do? “I spend my time developing and refining our existing home lift products to improve their quality and to try and reduce costs to both the business and customers. I design new products, build them and test the prototypes. If all goes well, I also produce CAD drawings to issue for when the lifts move to the manufacturing process” explains Andrew.
We asked Andrew to tell us, in his own words, what is it like to work for Stiltz. “Stiltz is an exciting and fast-growing company. My colleagues are a nice group of people who create an exciting environment to work in where everyone can thrive and reach their potential. We have a very open and honest culture here.”
The Stiltz team are always looking for enthusiastic team players to join us in any of our three UK locations: Kingswinford, Leeds and Wokingham. We pride ourselves on being a forward-thinking, caring and fast-paced company with a team of like-minded individuals to help push the business forward to new heights.
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Easy to arrange lots of information, No problems with fitting, payment taken in stages, last payment when job was completed. Everyone was friendly from start to finish.
My experience with Stiltz Homelifts. Just over a month ago, I had my Stiltz lift installed and I am so pleased with it. The workmen that came and fitted it were very professional and knew what they were doing. They were so professional I would not hesitate to recommend Stiltz lifts to anybody.
Great looking product, knowledgeable sales people, fitters work clean quickly and polite. Definitely recommend.
Great stylist lift, had for six months without a hitch. Installed by company staff not subcontractors. Cannot fault the lift, buying experience, installation, service. Good company ethos and made in UK.
From the very beginning with the initial construction to the finished product. I have never seen such polite men with an equal work ethic. They cleaned as they went each day. The pets were never in harm. The finished product is awesome. Couldn’t be more pleased
Excellent from beginning to end – and beyond.
Everybody we dealt with at Stiltz was very helpful and efficient, from the initial meeting with Nick Sale, the sales rep, thorough technical inspection, the builders, installers, plumber, electrician, and excellent follow up service and attention. My husband’s life is transformed and mine is much easier. Thank you Stiltz.
Elegant lift, promptly installed by careful and tidy fitters who removed their rubbish the following day. A fair price and an envied addition to our home.
I have been astounded and gratified by the levels of service we have received from every member of the Stiltz teams we have dealt with. A superb lift with exceptional service!
An excellent company from the first contact to the completed project. All personnel were friendly and very polite but stayed extremely professional throughout. Having been in the construction industry for over 40 years I was aware the preparation work was carried out to a high standard by the best of trades people. The lift itself can not be faulted both the operation and aesthetics.
The service was better than 1st class. It was excellent in every way. We could not be more pleased with everything Stiltz applied it’s self to in any way. We would award 6 stars at the very least.
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