Mechanical Design​/Product Validation Engineer

Location: West Tyrone
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
Industry: Engineering / Heavy Machinery

HN12630

• £45,000 - £60,000 basic salary depending on experience
• Annual bonus
• Health and life cover
• Excellent wider benefits package
• Move beyond a traditional CAD-focused Design Engineering role
• Work directly with complete machinery, testing and product development
• Excellent long-term career development opportunities

Vickerstock are working with an established and growing engineering and manufacturing business in the recruitment of a Mechanical Design / Product Validation Engineer for their West Tyrone operation.

This is a particularly interesting opportunity for an experienced Mechanical Design or Project Design Engineer who would like to move beyond a traditional CAD-focused position and into a more practical engineering role.

Working with complete machinery, you will develop test plans, carry out practical testing, analyse engineering data and use the results to solve problems and influence future product design and development.

We are particularly interested in experienced Design Engineers with a strong understanding of complex machinery who would like to develop their career in this direction.

• Work closely with Design and Project Engineering teams to understand new and existing product designs
• Develop test and validation plans for machinery, systems and components
• Lead practical product testing across engineering projects
• Determine appropriate testing requirements and methods
• Set up and use engineering test equipment, instrumentation and sensors
• Collect, analyse and interpret engineering test data
• Use test results to identify problems and recommend design improvements
• Support new product development from design through testing and into production
• Investigate product failures and support root cause analysis
• Contribute to design reviews and ongoing product improvement

• Mechanical Design, Project Design, Product Development or similar Engineering experience
• Experience working with complex machinery, equipment or manufactured products
• Strong understanding of mechanical design and engineering principles
• Good 3D CAD experience
• Ability to understand engineering drawings and technical information
• Strong practical engineering and problem-solving capability
• Ability to analyse technical information and make engineering recommendations
• Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering or another relevant Engineering discipline

Experience with hydraulics, structural design, electrical/control systems, FEA, instrumentation, sensors, data acquisition or product testing would be advantageous.

Previous formal Test or Validation Engineering experience is not required.

We are particularly interested in speaking with Mechanical Design Engineers, Project Design Engineers, Senior Design Engineers, Product Development Engineers and R&D Engineers who enjoy the practical side of Engineering and would like greater involvement in how products perform in the real world.

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