DESIGN & MANUFACTURING ENGINEER

Your Pivotal Role in Shaping Coughtrie’s Future
Based in Hillington, Glasgow, Coughtrie International has been manufacturing luminaires for arduous environments since 1940. The Coughtrie brand holds a reputation for fast lead time, excellent customer service and great quality.
Due to growth of the business, there are now a further two brands – J&G Coughtrie and Montrose Manufacturing.
J&G Coughtrie serves the market with iconic luminaires that were designed some 50 years ago, are highly desirable still in circulation today. These classic fittings are used across a multitude of applications ranging from the last paddle steamer in Scotland - The Waverley - to period homes.
Montrose Manufacturing is our sub-contract brand which provides custom cables, looms, PLCs and mechanical sub-assemblies.
Relentless focus on product excellence, on-time delivery and customer experience are at the heart of everything we do and as part of the ongoing design investment we have created a new and exciting position within our engineering department.

WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS

As our Design & Manufacturing Engineer, you will be at the heart of everything we do: keeping our legendary fixtures in production today, powering bespoke contract-manufacturing projects tomorrow, and inventing the breakthrough products that will define our next century. You’ll be the bridge between vision and reality, turning bold ideas into durable, precision-engineered lighting solutions across all three of our brands.

This isn’t “just another engineer” role. It’s a launchpad for ambitious professionals ready to:

• Lead high-value contract projects that showcase your end-to-end expertise.
• Specialise in advanced manufacturing or smart-lighting tech to become the company’s go-to authority.
• Grow into senior leadership; as a Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Production Manager, or even stepping up to the Technical Lead role yourself