KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
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Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Location: Newmarket
Salary: Up to £65,000 DOE
About the Role
KO2's client is seeking an exceptionally talented Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join their elite engineering team in Newmarket. This is genuinely a rare opportunity to work on some of the most exciting and challenging mechanical engineering projects you'll encounter in your career. You'll find yourself at the forefront of designing and engineering novel automotive robot systems that are quite literally breaking boundaries in the safety arena.
The role will see you working directly alongside one of the most experienced mechanical engineers on the market, who will serve as an exceptional mentor. This is the kind of technical leadership and guidance that money quite frankly cannot buy, and it's the sort of opportunity that will genuinely accelerate your professional development in ways that most engineers only dream about.
What You'll Be Doing
- Responsible for leading the mechanical design function from initial concept right through to successful manufacture.
- Involved in the complete engineering lifecycle.
- Primary focus on creating detailed 3D CAD models using SolidWorks, generating comprehensive technical drawings and system architectures that are both robust and thoroughly thought through.
- Running sophisticated structural analysis and finite element analysis (FEA) to understand precisely how systems will perform under real-world stresses, vibrations, and environmental conditions.
- Understanding of fabrication, steel construction, welding techniques, and bolting strategies.
- Selecting appropriate materials, evaluating manufacturing methods, and ensuring everything is technically sound and manufacturable.
- Significant work in terms of rework and redesign on the existing platform.
- Implementing change management protocols, issuing service bulletins, creating and maintaining comprehensive technical manuals.
- Ensuring everything meets the rigorous NATO compliance standards required for the end customer.
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What We're Looking For
- Demonstrated, proven experience as a senior mechanical design engineer.
- Exceptional competency in creating robust designs from initial concept through to successful manufacture.
- Exceptionally strong CAD skills, particularly with SolidWorks.
- Meticulous understanding of how to create assemblies, components, and detailed manufacturing drawings.
- Comfortable applying engineering principles, undertaking calculations, specifying appropriate tolerances, and using FEA to validate designs.
- Genuine understanding of manufacturing processes, including metals and materials selection.
- Knowledgeable about fabrication, machining, welding, and finishing techniques.
- Pragmatic approach to design challenges, logical problem evaluation, and evidence-based technical decisions.
- Ability to communicate complex engineering information clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Effective teamwork and proactive attitude.
- Sound engineering judgement and professional credibility.
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Why Join
This is a unique opportunity. The products being developed are genuinely innovative and internationally significant. The engineering challenges are substantial and genuinely interesting. Your work will quite literally make a difference in the real world, deployed across numerous countries globally. If you're the sort of engineer who wants to do genuinely meaningful work on genuinely interesting problems, with genuinely good people, then this could be absolutely perfect for you.
Apply Today
If this role appeals to you and you believe you've got the technical capability and the right attitude to succeed in this environment, we'd very much like to hear from you. Please send your CV through to KO2 and we can have a proper discussion about whether this opportunity is genuinely right for you.
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