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Dale Jones

Consultant Product Design Mechanical Engineer

£650/day
Leeds, GB
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Dale

Consultant Mechanical Engineer & Product Design Specialist
Helping ambitious teams bring complex hardware products to life

I’m Dale — a consultant mechanical engineer with 18+ years of experience designing and delivering high-impact hardware across NewSpace, MedTech, defence, cleantech, and beyond.

I support founders, CTOs, and innovation teams in navigating tough technical challenges and turning ambitious ideas into real-world products — reliably and at scale. Whether it’s starting from first principles, optimising for DfX (design for assembly, cost, manufacture, test), or delivering critical milestones, I bring rigour, creativity, and deep insight into the full engineering lifecycle.

Featured Projects:
OneWeb / Teledyne Defence & Space – Led the mechanical architecture for FlexChan, a key payload system now in orbit as part of the OneWeb LEO satellite constellation.

Osler Diagnostics – Delivered CAD and FEA support on the Origin diagnostics cartridge, helping optimise the design for repeatable, scalable manufacture.

PlasmaTrack – Designed and delivered a high-speed plasma cleaning system, successfully trialled by Network Rail as part of their Future Tech demonstrator.

Selby Piper / DASA – Developed rapid concept and visualisation for the USEV (Uncrewed Surface Effect Vehicle), supporting a successful £254K DASA funding award.

Looking for design leadership, specialist engineering support, or an experienced partner to bring your product vision to life? Let’s talk.

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  • English

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Form Lab Ltd
    Founder (Technical Director)
    January 2012 - Today (14 years and 5 months)
    Leeds, UK
    Founder and technical director of Form Lab - Product Design & Engineering Consultancy based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. Established in 2012 our mission is to deliver sustainable solutions to everyday challenges. We achieve this with our data-enabled approach to help innovators worldwide generate, develop and test new ideas. From tiny innovations like microfluidic drug delivery devices to improve our quality of life, to mega satellite constellations creating globally connected communities - we understand why design, performance and sustainability matters, and we find our kicks in the detail. So, whether you need a creative spark to jump-start your next big idea or you're already well on the way, get in touch - we'd love to talk.
  • AI Tech North
    Ambassador
    April 2019 - Today (7 years and 2 months)
    Leeds, UK
    Act as an ambassador for the platform in an advisory and voluntary basis. I was involved in the organisation and operational delivery of the AI Tech North 2019 conference (https://www.aitechnorth.uk/ai-tech-north-2019). Check out Twitter & LinkedIn for social sentiment. Twitter; https://twitter.com/search?q=%23aitn2019&src=typed_query LinkedIn; https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/aitn2019/
  • PlasmaTrack Ltd
    Contract Mechanical Engineer
    TRANSPORTATION
    August 2021 - September 2021 (1 month)
    City of London, London, UK
    Completed a rapid concept development of the low‑speed version of PlasmaTrack's novel track cleaning solution as featured on the BBC Click episode 'Leaves on the Line' first aired on 19th December 2020.

    Developed a temporary mounting solution for the SRS RB25 Road2Rail vehicle bogie.

    Also documented design, parts selection, and areas for further development in concise handover documentation. All CAD completed using Solidworks 2021 and stored for access and reuse on Solidworks PDM.
    SolidWorks computer aided engineering Mechanical Engineering Product Design

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Education

  • Provisional PhD - School of Mechanical Engineering, A.I. and Knowledge Based Design Optimisation in High Value Manufacturing Industries
    University of Leeds
    2020
    Provisional PhD - School of Mechanical Engineering, A.I. and Knowledge Based Design Optimisation in High Value Manufacturing Industries
  • Bachelor of Science
    Sheffield Hallam University
    2008
    BSc (Hons), Automotive Technology

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