Jackie Kerr Recruitment - Engineering and Manufacturing
Mechanical Design Engineer
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Mechanical Design Engineer
Carterton, Oxfordshire
£40,000 - £45,000 Per Annum + Bonus + Excellent Benefits!
We at JKR are supporting a well-established UK manufacturer with a strong international presence, designing, developing and manufacturing a wide range of innovative products!
We are recruiting for an experienced Mechanical Design Engineer, who will be responsible for the design and delivery of complete products or product sub-systems. In addition to the design and delivery of new products, the role also encompasses improvements to existing products. For example, addressing changes in regulations, component obsolescence, or performance issues identified by customers.
The Mechanical Design Engineer Role
- Work with Product Management and the other members of the Research and Development team to write clear and sufficient Product Brief documents, setting out the requirements and scope of new product developments
- Design overall product architectures, platforms, and interfaces to ensure that the requirements of each Product Brief can be met
- Identify design risks, and perform feasibility studies and theoretical analysis as necessary to quantify and minimise these risks early in the design process
- Perform detailed design of individual parts using 3D CAD software, for both in-house manufacture and external suppliers
- Work with the Production Engineering team, toolmakers and external suppliers to ensure that parts are Designed For Manufacture (DFM) to ensure high quality, low cost, vendor independence, and high repeatability of processing
- Create full documentation packages for all parts and assemblies, including (for example) 2D drawings for critical dimensions and tolerances, data sheets, regulatory information etc
- Create prototypes using rapid prototyping techniques, and also using production-ready parts
- Test the prototypes against the documented requirements both as sub-systems and when integrated into complete functional prototypes
- Create clear written test reports and action plans to resolve any issues that are identified
- Keep up to date with relevant technologies and techniques to ensure that our client’s products are at the leading edge of the industry
- Ensure that all designs are implemented and tested rigorously, in line with the company’s ISO 9001 quality processes and the safety-critical nature of the products
- Consider carefully potential failure modes for the product in real life situations – for example by performing full or partial FMEA
- Ensure that all defects and issues are systematically recorded, tracked and resolved
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Mechanical Design Engineer Ideal Candidate
- Hands-on design of products for mass production, including the whole process from idea to volume manufacturing
- 3D CAD skills, ideally experience with Solidworks, but other systems will be considered if willing to learn Solidworks
- Graduate in Engineering, Physics or Mathematics OR equivalent experience
- Confident with mathematics and theoretical analysis of mechanical and fluid systems (desirable)
- Committed to ongoing learning and self-development
- Able to work independently, but also to collaborate within a team
- Able to operate confidently and communicate effectively at all levels of the organisation, both verbally and in writing
- Excellent with detail
- Completer finisher mindset
Mechanical Design Engineer Working Hours & Benefits
- Standard: 9:00am-5:00pm Monday to Thursday, 9:00am-4:30pm on Fridays
- Flexible working by prior agreement with management, with core hours of 10:00am to 4:00pm on all five days, 34.5 hours total per week
- Bonus schemes
- 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays
- Employer matched pension scheme
- Death in Service scheme
- Training & Development - Career / Personal Development Plan
- Employee discounts platform (Perkbox)
- ‘WeCare’ well-being programme
- Cycle-to-work scheme
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