Hi,

I have been riding trials for 12 years. I am a design engineer in the uk, for an automotive type (ish) application, done some work on chassis's, but now in the powertrain design team.

I'm want to work for a trials bike company as a design engineer but cant find where they advertise their jobs (apart from beta-website)

Any ideas?

Why not approach the manufacturer's direct, its not as if there's a huge number of them?

Hi, I'm an aspiring engineer, and I

Edited September 26, 200817 yr by motodaz

You'd certainly need to move. You'd also have to be keen to roll up your sleeves. A new design comes alomg once every 8 (?) years so the rest of the time you'd be employed as a mechanic/draughtsperson. From a factories point of view it isn't really worth employing a full time design engineer so I would suppose that most are employed on a contract basis.

Have a look through the back issues of MX digital. There was an interview with one of their design engineers in one issue. Curiously he's a yank. AFAIK he started working in a Gas Gas shop and worked his way through uni, ending up with a masters in engineering, he then went on his OE and picked up work for Gasser where his design talents were noticed.