Mechanical Design Engineer
Proactive Technical Recruitment
- Cambridgeshire
- Permanent
- Full-time
- To liaise closely with the Project Manager and Project Team, identifying design requirements: function, reliability, cost, serviceability, and ensure the design integrates correctly
- From the design in Solidworks, to produce timely assembly drawings and detail drawings specifying materials, machining tolerances and assembly notes
- To produce bills of materials specifying bought out components and their source of supply
- To obtain cost effective quotations from vendors for manufactured parts and place timely orders
- Throughout the build process, to provide technical support to the Manufacturing Team, Procurement and the Design Team, providing assistance with test and build procedures, and the transfer of the product to manufacturing and the customer
- Defining appropriate, cost-effective manufacturing techniques
- Understanding technical risks and devising and implementing mitigation plans
- Ensuring new product designs meet all the necessary requirements and mandatory standards
- Responsible for ensuring the mechanical design of new product developments are delivered to an acceptable quality and on time
- Definition of product acceptance criteria & testing
- Supporting product integration and acceptance testing
- Technical support to end customers
- To become familiar with, and adhere to, the Company and Parent Company processes, policies and procedures
- Experienced Mechanical Engineer with more than five years product development and manufacture experience, preferably in a multidisciplinary manufacturing environment
- Experience of mechanisms, fluid handling, drives, jigs, fixtures, sheet metal, pneumatics, and safe machine design
- Experienced Solidworks user, competent with the use of MS Office software and MRP systems
- Sound knowledge of low to medium volume manufacturing techniques
Proactive Global is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.