Mechanical Design Engineer

Closing Date: Friday 15th September 2023

Responsibilities:

• Design Products – Ownership of the design of mechanical products, this may include making calculations of product dimensions, drawing sketches of product ideas, and designing mock-ups of proposed products.
  
• Develop and Complete Projects – Provide the PDM/Senior Mechanical Engineer with up to date technical advice in their own area of expertise, provide regular project status updates. Provide estimates for likely timescales and cost for assigned tasks.
  
• CAD and PDM Administration – Ensure All Product Development is sufficient for purpose and retained/archived in an accessible system and maintain their own data in that system to the business standards.
  
• Design & Test - Design and build of test fixtures and equipment, definition of product testing for mechanical performance, Analysis and reporting of results.
  
• Design Project Plans – Advise, support, and inform PDM/Senior Engineers to define timings/costs for product development in areas of expertise. Work to defined project plans and ensure that any deviation to plan is relayed to the relevant project lead in a timely manner.
  
• Research - Review and suggestion of improvement
  
• Collaborate - Collaborate with engineers and developers to create product designs. Support quality/operational improvement activities Identified using root cause analysis techniques.

About You: 

Experience

• Experience in designing for production methodologies (DfA, DfM.)
• Familiarity with Autodesk Vault or other Data Management solutions.
• Drawing to standards BS8888, GD&T, ISO128
• 1+ years’ experience in a product development role for instruments, control systems or similar industrial electronic products.
• 3D Mechanical Design experience on any CAD system, preferably Autodesk Inventor.
• Technical drawings preparation (i.e. dimensioning and tolerancing).
• Good manufacturing processes understanding.

Skills

• Knowledge of test and measurement equipment.
• Knowledge of Advanced manufacturing techniques and Industry 4.0.
• Epicor ERP experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• IT Literate – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.
• Good organisational skills
• Ability to manage own time effectively.
• Customer Focus
• Drive and Determination
• Managing Change