Design Engineer (Mechanical)

Salary: £54,000 per year

SENIOR DESIGN ENGINEER – MECHANCIAL ENGINEER
SENIOR DESIGN MECHANICAL ENGINEER BASED IN POOLE

Due to expansion, an exciting position has become available for a senior designer to join our friendly manufacturing and engineering team. The successful designer will earn up to £54,000 pa and 25 days holiday. If you have experience in mechanical design engineering then this is a perfect opportunity to grow your career and earn good money.
Role Requirements:
We are currently seeking a high calibre Senior Design Engineer.
You will be diverse in your capabilities from establishing technical & regulatory requirement, through design and specification, and ultimately test and verification. You will work closely with the project management, sales, service, quality, purchasing and production teams to ensure a compliant product is realised in a timely manner.
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Role Responsibilities
The candidate should demonstrate the following competencies:
Compile and interpret Technical Specification documents for internal and supplier usage based around regulatory and customer requirements.
Awareness of project and technical risk identification and management techniques throughout project lifecycle. Communication of risks to the business.
Confident in the design of components and assemblies, and selection and specification of proprietary components considering technical requirement and practical supply limitations. Familiar with design review and quality gate system for design signoff with stakeholders.
Experienced CAD (Inventor, Solidworks, etc.) and assembly user with experience of product and system designs incorporating Rotating assemblies, fluid handling, electro-mechanical components, Electronic control systems, Sheet metal design, Injection moulding and casting.
Some experience of control systems and logic control would be advantageous
Fluid management, pumps, sealing, valves & associated system design
Awareness and experience of using a PDM/PLM system for data management, and configuration control.
Experience with Finite element analysis of isotropic materials, definition of boundary conditions and load-cases appropriate to the technical requirement and mitigation of identified risks. Validation of FEA may also be required.
Must be confident in the generation of manufacturing and inspection drawings to BS8888. Understanding of the need and application of GD&T, and appropriate use of tolerances to minimise part costs whilst maintaining functional compliance.
Generation of an accurate CAD BoM and support and maintenance of the company MRP BoM (Navision)
Appreciation of the importance and practical application of Design for Manufacture (DfM) and demonstrable experience of working with manufacturers both internal and external.
Design and execution of experiments, validation and verification activities to support concepts, simulation activities, and validate performance.
Compile Reports to substantiate design and support future developments
Familiar with the assessment of compliance against specification for both bought in and internally developed products and sub-systems.
Good practical mechanical aptitude, fault finding, Root cause assessment
Good decision maker and excellent communicator
Organised and able to plan and manage own time and workload
Good analytical and Excel skills
Able to and aware of importance of supporting company quality systems.
Enthusiastic approach and ‘Can do’ attitude.

Experience of the following would be beneficial:
Computational fluid dynamics / Mouldflow simulation
Product configuration management
Knowledge of Navision MRP software
Commercial understanding
Supply chain
Candidate will be able to work overtime when required to support project demands
Able to undertake business travel as required
Full driving licence an advantage