Mechanical Design Engineer

About this job

£40,000 to £45,000 per year, Plus excellent training and development

Contract Type:
Permanent

Hours:

Full time

Disability Confident:
No

Closing Date: 18/06/2026

Support the team in new product development driven by company and market requirements, and provide mechanical engineering support for current products to enhance productivity, reliability and continuity of performance and build, ranging from small component designs to complex turnkey solutions.

From a top level brief, and working in collaboration with electrical, controls and software engineers.

• Design and implement cost-effective equipment and solutions for engineering problems and help improve safety, reliability and throughput.

Developing a project specification with colleagues, often including those from other engineering disciplines.

Producing details of specifications and outline designs.

Designing robust solutions within a 3D environment, ensuring best practice modelling to minimise waste in the model and eliminate conflicting information between models and drawings.

Discussing and solving complex problems with customers, internal departments, subcontractors and suppliers, considering the implications of issues such as cost, safety and time constraints.

Creation of documentation for the release of products to production, including but not limited to BoM, spares list, build instructions and assembly drawings.

The ideal candidate will be qualified to degree level in Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Science, Manufacturing Engineering or equivalent.

Ideally you will have a minimum 3 years’ experience in a product development environment specifically design for manufacture, assembly and service; to ensure design concepts can be consistently manufactured to enable repeatability of function and operation.

Experience of using Autodesk Inventor for part drawing and assembly creation.

Other CAD packages would be considered. (Creo, Solidworks) Experience of BoM creation and control within CAD package.

Experience of Vault or other PLM software.

Ability to interpret and evaluate both mechanical and electrical drawings.

Excellent training scheme. Opportunities to grow and develop within the organisation.

Pension.

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