Mechanical Engineer - CAD / FEA

This company are able to offer a very competitive salary & benefits package, offering an excellent progressive career path and allows you to work with the latest cutting edge design and technologies. Their projects are vast and constant with new designs being required regularly, the company do not believe in re-jigging existing design but continuously bring new products/technologies to the market place and that is why they remain at the number one slot of a global leader within their market sector.

Mechanical Design Engineer to provide concept, scheme and embodiment design of instrumentation mechanics, from initial requirements through to low/medium volume manufacture. The design work to involve balancing potentially conflicting requirements eg. innovation vs. value, quality, reliability, assembly, test and service. This role will be of special interest to those with a background in precision instrumentation.

Notes for Candidates
Ideally this company is looking for someone who can work at a senior level, with a proven track record of designing precision mechanical components and assemblies. In particular, we would like to see examples of where they have use CAD/FEA, tolerance's, geometrical tolerances, FMEA, prototype manufacture & assembly.


The attributes and skills we are looking for are summarised below. This is meant to be an indication and we are willing to see candidates with similar attributes and skills.

Attributes required

*Entrepreneurial, dynamic, used to working in a fast-moving environment
*Hands-on, experimental approach
*Innovative - to be able to create and develop new ideas
*Self-motivated - to be able to drive designs through from idea to completion
*Willing to learn - project management potential
*Commercially aware - to understand the need for short time to market
*Proven track record in working effectively to project timescales
*Used to working effectively in a multidisciplinary team
*Balance requirements for value engineering, assembly, test, service, time to market
*Good communications skills - ability to work with external development groups

Skills

Essential
*Graduate with relevant experience or equivalent
*High-technology background
*Strong mechanical aptitude
*Innovative, experimental approach
*Design of concept, scheme of a complete instrument or a major subsystem
*Experience of precision mechanisms, fluid handling or optics
*Wide materials expertise in metals, plastics
*3D CAD experience
*Design for test / reliability
*DFM/FMEA
*Delivery to tight project timescales
*ISO9001 - drawing standards and controls

Beneficial
*Electromechanical / electronics knowledge
*QFD
*Experience of manufacturing processes
*Experience in rapid prototyping
*Project leadership potential

General
*Good communication and team working skills
*Excellent problem-solving skills
*Ability to work to ISO9000-2000
*Self-starter

Notes to Candidates:
I would appreciate a quick cover letter stating why you feel you would be suitable for this role, along with your contact details and preferred time for me to speak with you in reference to your application.

Salary & Benefits package is very competitive, including Pension, Share save Scheme, Bonus, Healthcare and more.

Locations which are commutable to site (the company also offers a full relocation package of you are not within a commutable distance)

Worcester
Hereford
Cheltenham
Gloucester
Birmingham
Redditch
Bromsgrove
Warwickshire
Shropshire


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