This company is a small but very well-funded part of a larger European group and has ambitious plans to double its turnover over the next 3 years, having developed a number of best-selling products they are looking to appoint a highly motivated Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to their design team. The company offers a strong employment package with great career development prospects to Principal Design Engineer for the right individual within an appealing time frame:
The role will include 6-10 International trips per year of 3-5 days duration to undertake site surveys on customer machines in order to produce drawings for retrofit components so candidates who cannot travel need not apply.
Candidates must have the right to work in the UK permanently without any form of sponsorship.
Keywords: Rotating equipment/Special Purpose Machinery/Mechanical Design/Sheetmetal/Machinery/Precision Engineering/Electromechanical/Inventor
Duties:
Visiting customer to discuss their requirement and undertake site measurement
Create design specification
Design of full system and production of BOMs
Provide technical support for manufacturing
Provide installation advice and guidance to Engineers
Essential Skills and Experience:
Strong experience in bespoke machinery or other rotating equipment industries
Qualified to Degree level in Mechanical Engineering
Excellent Maths capability
Research and Development or Applications Engineering experience
Ability to work from a blank sheet through to customer handover
Extensive 3D design capability (Inventor or similar) designing assemblies of circa 200 components
Experience in producing BOMs on MRP system
Ability to produce designs using standardised components to allow integration into future projects, whilst being optimised for efficient, economical manufacture with inbuilt flexibility
Ability to follow Engineering Management of Change procedures, preferably with experience of Autodesk Vault
Practical on-site engineering skills and methodology, particularly a good level of metrology experience
Ability to understand and design simple pneumatic and hydraulic systems
Experience in producing 2D manufacturing and assembly drawings to BS 308/8888
Good time management skills to achieve deadlines and ability to manage own workload
Good communication skills
Keywords: Rotating equipment/Special Purpose Machinery/Mechanical Design/Sheetmetal/Machinery/Precision Engineering/Electromechanical/Inventor
In return the company offer a strong package which includes a £2k bonus, 33 days holiday, 6% matched pension, company sick pay, flexi time, car lease scheme through salary sacrifice and excellent career development prospects.
If you have the potential to be the next Principal Engineer for this business then apply now!
