Design Engineer Solidworks

Design Engineer

JTH Recruitment have an excellent opportunity for an experienced Design CAD Engineer to join our well established and reputable engineering client based in Peterborough. My client are offering a competitive salary, overtime, a pension scheme and private health care and ongoing training and development.

Working under own initiative, with support from our close-knit Project Engineering team, fulfilling “inception to completion” design and draughting requirements for food processing lines. Developing models and fabrication drawings. Sheet-metal formations and structural steelwork. Working to and delivering highly hygienic (food safe) design standards.

• 3D Solid Works trained and competent – industrial fabrication drawings
• Previous experience in equipment & steelwork design and fabrication techniques
• Minimum 3 years industrial experience
• HNC / HND qualification in engineering
• Dynamic, enthusiastic and flexible approach
• Willing to travel (occasional need for UK and foreign site surveys)
• Commercial awareness applied to designing - value engineering approach
• Excellent people skills and clear communicator with the ability to form strong team bonds

• Solid Works (Weldments, sheet-metal, part modelling, piping, stress analysis)
• AutoCAD

• Food machinery design
• Hygienic food-safe solutions
• Fabrication processes
• CE marking, machinery directive and guarding requirements
• Conversant with 2D & 3D

• Site survey of operating areas
• Steelwork design, load bearing calculations, fabrication drawings.
• Access walkways and staircase design and fabrication drawings.
• Documented risk assessments for the specific solutions and the interacting layout.
• Process layout refinement and design of interconnecting transfer chutes etc.
• Identify foot-loadings for interaction with construction companies.
• Identify utility connection points for the process layout.
• Receive “as installed” layouts from the installing engineer and update as necessary

This position is based in Peterborough within an easy commute of Hampton, Werrington, Wisbech, Stamford, Orton, Kings Lynn, Spalding, Grantham, Corby, Northampton