Mechanical Design Engineer

A motivated Mechanical Design Engineer is required to join our exclusive global engineering manufacturing client. In return, there is an excellent salary package circa £40k-£45k+ (maybe higher salaries for exceptional candidates) plus good company benefits including a very generous company contribution pension scheme, work from home Fridays, extra holiday days, sick pay and medical, and long-term career prospects in engineering management roles in a well-established and prestigious stable company.

This exciting mechanical design engineer role would suit a degree or HNC/HND qualified mechanical or electromechanical design professional with good CAD experience (ideally SOLIDWORKS or similar) and hands-on experience of machinery design, special purpose machine design, and process machine design within the factory industrial manufacturing production industry.

The ideal Mechanical Design Engineer candidate will have the below skills and experiences:

• Experience of machinery design, special purpose machine design within an industrial, manufacturing, production engineering, factory, process machinery, production factory industry or similar.
• HND/HNC engineering / Mechanical Design/ Electro-mechanical engineering degree qualifications or equivalent (B.eng, M.eng etc).
• Good practical experience of CAD (SOLIDWORKS advantageous but AUTOCAD and other CAD packages are suitable).
• Design experience in pharmaceutical machinery, FMCG, food process machinery, drinks, beverages manufacturing or similar industries would be of interest.
• Awareness of machinery safety standards and process machinery applications.
• Full UK driving licence and passport as there will be occasional travel to European and international offices (for training etc.) and client sites; unfortunately, my client cannot offer sponsorship for visas/work permits.

Desirable:

• Experience knowledge of pneumatics, thermal, steam, gas thermal oxidiser, burner process etc would be advantageous.
• Any CNC experience, CNC machinery, CAM (desirable).

My exclusive client specialises in process machinery, improvement and development of existing machinery designs and the refurbishment and modernisation of installed based machinery using the latest technology. They have a growing and diverse product range of market-leading machinery. The design engineers work on designated projects, producing detailed designs for the company’s machines and development of machine design complying with the relevant international and UK company standards to design specification.

Now is an exciting time to join the company; they are looking to develop passionate design engineers long term in line with their succession plans, so are offering a stable role in a rewarding company and a long-term career. A full job spec will be discussed and submitted to suitable candidates upon application. Don’t miss out!