KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Mechanical Design Engineer
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Mechanical Design Engineer - York - Hybrid - £35,000 to £40,000
There's a particular kind of satisfaction in designing something that thousands of people will interact with, night after night, in some of the liveliest and most visually spectacular environments going. KO2 is working exclusively with a client who sits right at the sharp end of that world: a business with genuine engineering pedigree, half a century of it in fact, that designs and builds the complex electromechanical hardware behind large scale digital and broadcast entertainment systems. Think precision, think polish, think products that have to work flawlessly under proper scrutiny, and you're somewhere near the mark.
They're now after a Mechanical Design Engineer to join a well established Hardware Development team based at their York site, working alongside electronics and software colleagues on products that go from a rough sketch on a whiteboard right through to full production.
What you'll be getting stuck into
- Generating mechanical designs that are genuinely inventive but also, crucially, buildable, working closely within a multidisciplinary team
- Carrying products through the full development journey, from early concept and proof of principle work through detailed design and on into manufacture
- Producing proper manufacturing packs: component drawings, assembly drawings and work instructions, using SolidWorks alongside the usual Microsoft Office tools
- Getting involved in design reviews and testing, making sure everything meets the standard the department expects
- Lending a hand to colleagues across product development and manufacturing when it's needed
- Reviewing and improving existing products, not just chasing new ones
- Working to project deadlines, and mucking in with whatever else the business reasonably needs from you
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What you'll need to bring
- Several years' hands on experience designing products in SolidWorks, ideally three years or more
- A solid working knowledge of mechanical manufacturing processes and what each is actually capable of, including sheet metal work (cut and bent), hard and soft tooled mouldings, bearings and drives, electromechanical interfaces, machined and turned components, and the sensible use of off the shelf parts
- Experience working directly with suppliers to properly understand what their processes can and can't do
- A knack for picking up legacy designs quickly and finding ways to genuinely improve them
- Practical workshop experience, comfortable making and modifying parts to build prototypes and prove out a design
- A real enthusiasm for technology and design, and an appetite for learning
- The ability to talk engineering sense to technical and non technical people alike
- Strong organisational skills and the discipline to hit agreed completion dates
- A full driving licence, and the right to work in the UK
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What's in it for you
Beyond the salary, there's a proper pension scheme, life insurance, a cycle to work scheme, a health and wellbeing programme, free on site parking, and regular company events. There's also genuine scope for progression here for anyone with the work ethic and leadership qualities to make the most of it, this isn't a role where you'll be static for years on end.
You'll be based primarily at the York site, with occasional travel down to a satellite site in the Staffordshire area, so it suits someone who doesn't mind the odd day out of the office but wants a proper home base too.
If that sounds like your sort of engineering challenge, get in touch with KO2 and we'll talk you through it properly.
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