Senior Mechanical Engineer in WA

Assystem is recruiting a Senior Mechanical Engineer to work at our customer’s site in Warrington on a 12‑month contract (PAYE via Umbrella).

• Understand product system/sub‑system requirements and derive component requirements at task level.
• Produce robust design solutions that are insensitive to variation and meet specified requirements.
• Collaborate and communicate design solution information with task stakeholders.
• Search for, capture, store, and re‑use knowledge related to design activity.
• Understand and apply commodity standards, and create new standards where none exist.
• Liaise with manufacturing and service engineering to integrate experience and knowledge from these areas.
• Check own and others’ design solutions and technical documentation for completeness and correctness.

• Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD in Engineering or an equivalent qualification or proven technical capability.
• Technical experience relevant to the engineering discipline.
• Ability to apply logical, analytical and innovative thinking to a range of technical problems.
• Knowledge and experience of product integrity, liability and justification processes.
• Membership of a relevant professional body or working towards membership.
• Experience as a design engineer across the product life cycle, including design safety justification supporting manufacturing, integration, maintenance/refit activities and operational issues.
• Experience in research and development, analytical and test verification activities.
• Experience in developing methods, standards and processes.

Applicants must meet the Baseline Personnel Security Standard and may be required to hold higher levels of security vetting depending on UK employment requirements.

We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote diversity within our company.