Mechanical Design Engineer

Overview

This company has a dynamic work environment and believes in teamwork and trust. They seek creative minds and encourage innovation and new ideas. With rapid growth in work orders and projects, they are looking for a Mechanical Design Engineer to join a multi‑disciplined team. Their products are supplied worldwide and they are undergoing a large growth period, making this a new role during an excellent time to join and shape the position.

• GBP 40,000 : GBP 45,000
• New role with autonomy to make the position your own.
• Excellent training scheme
• Opportunities to grow and develop within the organisation.
• Pension

• Support the team in new product development driven by company and market requirements; provide mechanical engineering support for current products to enhance productivity, reliability, and continuity of performance, 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.
• Develop project specifications with colleagues, often including those from other engineering disciplines.
• Produce details of specifications and outline designs.
• Design robust solutions within a 3D environment, ensuring best‑practice modelling to minimise waste and eliminate conflicting information between models and drawings.
• Discuss and solve complex problems with customers, internal departments, subcontractors and suppliers, considering the implications of cost, safety and time constraints.
• Create documentation for the release of products to production, including BoM, spares list, build instructions and assembly drawings.

• Qualified to degree level in Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Science, Manufacturing Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum 3 years experience in a product development environment, specifically design for manufacture, assembly and service, ensuring design concepts can be consistently manufactured to enable repeatability of function and operation.
• Experience using Autodesk Inventor for part drawing and assembly creation. Other CAD packages such as Creo or Solid Works are considered.
• Experience with BoM creation and control within a CAD package.
• Experience with Vault or other PLM software.
• Ability to interpret and evaluate both mechanical and electrical drawings.

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