Senior Mechanical Engineer Job Leeds area,England UK,Engineering

Design a mechanism that restores movement to someone who lost it, from a blank sheet between two fixed interfaces on a new robotic prosthetic subsystem. This Senior Mechanical Engineer role is in Leeds, hybrid around 2 days a week, paying up to £60,000, with flexibility to £65,000 for the right person.

Scope of the Role

As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, you own the mechanical design of a subsystem end to end, from a blank sheet to a tested, manufacturable design.

Design load‑bearing, moving structures at small scale, to tight packaging constraints.
Take concepts into Solid Works and produce detailed designs, with drawings to BS 8888.
Run structural and tolerance analysis behind your designs, including FEA and hand calculations.
Build custom test fixtures and take your designs through verification and validation.
Select materials and manufacturing methods with design for manufacture and assembly in mind.

Key Skills and Experience Required

Extensive experience in mechanical design, as a Senior Mechanical Engineer or Mechanical Design Engineer, not product design or CAD only.
A track record designing moving assemblies, mechanisms or articulated parts, with bearings and constraints.
Experience in a regulated environment such as medical devices, aerospace or defence, with risk management.
Experience owning mechanical engineering as sole or near sole engineer, not one of a large team.
Confident in Solid Works or similar 3D CAD, with full existing UK right to work.

Salary and Benefits

Up to £60,000 base salary, with flexibility to £65,000 for an exceptional candidate
Hybrid working, around 2 days a week on site
A direct line to the technical lead, with no project managers in the way
Full ownership of a subsystem, with real say over materials, methods and test approach

The team is building a new robotic prosthetic device from the ground up, and you own a defined subsystem within it. It is a small team, fewer than five people, giving you real ownership and a direct line to the lead. What you design ends up on someone’s arm, giving them back function they had lost.

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