Joshua Leddra

Senior Design Engineer @ Ensera Design

About

As a Senior Design Engineer at KD, Josh has been responsible for engineering products across the Medical, Defence, Industrial and Consumer sectors. Leading projects from their initial idea all the way to production for brands from across the world, he has gained a wealth of experience that can be applied to any product looking to be developed. With a background in design and a career developed in engineering, Josh has developed a skill set that bridges the gap between industrial design and mechanical engineering. Spending the majority of his time at KD working in medical device design, Josh has helped develop world leading next generation prosthetics devices, engineer fully functioning point of care devices and help consumer health companies bring their products to market.

Country

United Kingdom

City

Bristol

Industry

Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering

Skill

Time Management, Product Design, Sketching, Model Making, InDesign, Rhino, Concept Generation, Photoshop, Visual Communication, Drawing, Illustration, Industrial Design, SketchUp, Rendering, Concept Design, SolidWorks, Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, Graphic Design, User-centered Design

Experience

Senior Design Engineer

Ensera Design

2021-5 - Present · 5 yrs 5 mos

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Engineering products across the Medical, Defence, Industrial and Consumer sectors for the internationally renowned design consultancy Kinneir Dufort (KD), Josh’s key role has been to engineer and lead multidiscipline projects for a variety of clients. Spending the majority of his time at KD working in medical device design, Josh has helped develop world leading next generation prosthetics devices, engineer fully functioning point of care devices and help consumer health companies bring their products to market.

Design Engineering Consultant

Ensera Design

2016-8 - Present · 10 yrs 2 mos

Bristol, United Kingdom

Main Achievements in this role: Has become a go-to for Design For Manufacture (particularly Injection Moulding), Surfacing Design and complex large assembly CAD modelling (SolidWorks) Worked on a range of medical devices from bionic prosthetic devices, surgical equipment and point of care devices. Adhering to ISO 9001 & ISO 13485 Mechanical Engineer on large scale Defence projects with challenging technical specifications Taken early ideas through the design process of research, ideation and concepting all the way to manufacture

Designer

Ensera Design

2014-9 - 2015-7 · 11 mos

Bristol, United Kingdom

As a designer, Josh developed a broad range of products working on projects in the FMCG, Consumer, Industrial and Medical sectors, Josh's role required him to work with a variety of different disciplines and expertise. Learning skills such as project management, design communication, mechanical testing, design for manufacture and prototyping. A key focus of the job was to rapidly develop product ideas into early concepts with sketching, rendering and prototyping which were then subsequently developed to be taken into manufacture.