Camlin Group
Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
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The Senior Mechanical Design Engineer is a key contributor responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing cutting-edge electro-mechanical products for the Energy Utilities and Renewables industries. As a senior member of the Mechanical Engineering team, you will lead development of complex industrial products, provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers, and ensure our products meet stringent performance and quality standards.
Responsibilities
- Lead development, testing and evaluation of mechanical designs for the Energy industry in accordance with Camlin NPI process, while complying with industry standards and regulations.
- Lead Design-to-Cost and Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) initiatives across mechanical products and assemblies, identifying and implementing opportunities to reduce material, manufacturing, assembly, and supply chain costs while maintaining product performance, quality, reliability, and compliance requirements.
- Apply sound knowledge of engineering principles to evaluate mechanical and electro-mechanical products.
- Mentor engineers, providing technical guidance, best practices, and support for skill development.
- Create, review and maintain engineering drawings, technical specifications and test plans in accordance with Camlin best practice.
- Create, review and maintain Bills of Materials (BoM) and work with Purchasing to identify appropriate suppliers.
- Ensure that products will perform consistently in specified operating environments, meeting Camlin quality and customer expectations.
- Lead collaboration with other engineering functions, and other departments including the Operations team.
- Conduct design reviews, design evaluations, and testing to uphold high-quality standards.
- Proactively challenge and drive the organisation to continually improve quality and performance of engineering design.
- Plan and manage own work with limited supervision and provide estimates of engineering costs and timescales to support business needs.
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Essential Requirements
- A minimum 2:1 degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related discipline, or practical work experience commensurate to a 3rd level education.
- A minimum of 7 years’ experience in a mechanical engineering environment with a focus on product design and development, including experience leading complex design projects through the full product lifecycle.
- Experience with sheet metal and fabricated assembly design and sound understanding of related manufacturing and assembly processes.
- Experience designing electro-mechanical assemblies for use in harsh environments; including thermal management and ingress protection.
- Experience with Solid Edge or similar CAD packages, including creation of parts, assemblies and detailed 2D drawings including use of GD&T.
- Ability to design cost effective solutions from specifications against agreed budget and timescale requirements.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to address technical challenges.
- Ability to handle multiple competing tasks and demands.
- Strong interpersonal skills to facilitate effective collaboration within the team and with other departments.
- Experience with prototype testing / verification and failure analysis.
- Practical, hands-on experience, with part manufacture and prototype assembly.
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Desired Criteria
- Experience leading Design-to-Cost (DTC), Value Engineering (VE), or Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) initiatives.
- Experience coordinating product verification (environmental, mechanical).
Our Values
- We work together
- We believe in people
- We won’t accept the ‘way it has always been done’
- We listen to learn
- We’re trying to do the right thing
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Individuals seeking employment at Camlin are considered without regards to race, colour, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital states, ancestry, physical or mental disability, gender identity or sexual orientation.
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