Mechanical Design Engineer

Salary: £40,800 – £48,000 per year

The Role: Mechanical Design Engineer

My Client is seeking a Mechanical Design Engineer to join their growing team in Leicestershire. You will be working as part of a small design team designing and detailing industrial access platforms, conveyor systems, and automation engineering solutions using 3D Inventor

The Company

A successful company with a 50-year history, offering industrial solutions for materials handling, packing, automated component assembly, inspection and bespoke automation including advanced robotics.

Key Responsibilities

• Work as part of a small design team designing and detailing industrial access platforms, conveyor systems, and automation engineering solutions using 3D Inventor. 
• Site surveys involving measuring, sizing and scanning customer sites and installations. 
• Liaising with new and existing clients to understand their needs and present to them
• Interpreting customer URS and designing solution systems at the concept level
• Working with and supporting the technical sales managers and project engineers of our group. 
• Calculating the right size of components based on sound engineering principles, tolerances and “design for manufacture” and “design for assembly” best-practice.
• Detailing and issuing technical drawing packages to facilitate in-house fabrication and assembly and external subcontractors’ manufacturing. o Creating parts lists and working closely with the procurement team to ensure accurate and timely availability of components.

The Right Person

The successful Mechanical Design Engineer will ideally be educated to degree level in a relevant discipline, as well as possessing the following key skills:

• Proven ability to interpret customer specifications, implicit and explicit system requirements and hidden needs, to develop detail design solutions for automation projects
• Experience of conveyor systems, automation systems, robotics, and special purpose machinery
• Advanced CAD drawing software experience (Inventor – not essential)

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