Senior Mechanical R&D Engineer

Salary: £48,000 – £60,000 per year

We are seeking a Senior Mechanical R&D Engineer to work for a machinery manufacturer in Stoke-on-Trent.

The candidate must have a broad experience in new machinery builds. Knowledge of working with close tolerance components is essential, value engineering experience, innovative thinking, electrical / software experience will be useful but not essential. Key factors are self-motivation and the competence to work unsupervised.

Summary of Duties & Responsibilities

• Design and implement new development projects and innovations.

• Manage value engineering projects on existing product lines.

• Develop a project specification with colleagues, often including those from other engineering disciplines

• Develop, test, and evaluate theoretical designs

• Discussing and solving complex problems with manufacturing departments, sub-contractors, suppliers and customers

• Making sure a product can be made reliably and will perform consistently in specified operating environments

• Managing projects using engineering principles and techniques

• Planning and designing new production processes

• Producing details of specifications and outline designs

• Using research, analytical, conceptual, and planning skills, particularly mathematical modelling and 2D/3D and SolidWorks computer-aided design

• Considering the implications of issues such as cost, safety and time constraints

• Monitoring and commissioning plant and systems

• Ensure materials selected in the design operation are readily available for all activities with cost of procurement a major consideration

Skills

• Engineering Degree/HNC Mechanical/Design Engineering.

• Minimum of 5 years in machinery design or mechanical design experience in a fast paced high technology environment.

• Excellent interpersonal skills – able to express ideas and collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams. Open minded- able to recognise good ideas.

• Innovative thinker – able to envision new and better ways to do things

• Good instincts and sound judgment for mechanical and structural design.

• Excellent analytical skills, ability to plan, organise, and implement multiple concurrent tasks.

• Good working knowledge of CAD/CAM/CAE computer systems, engineering materials and design, coating technologies and advanced manufacturing technologies. Fluent in 3D CAD systems such as Solidworks, with a good working knowledge of bills of materials, parts lists and component routing systems.

Key words: mechanical engineer mechanical engineering mechanical design engineer mechanical development engineer mechanical designer machine design engineer mechatronic engineer