Senior Mechanical Design Engineer – Martin Audio
Term: Full-time, Permanent
Location: High Wycombe
Salary: Negotiable + benefits
The Company: Martin Audio is one of the brands within the Focusrite family. Focusrite plc is a listed audio products group that develops software and hardware products for the music generation market. The company enjoys an international reputation for supplying award‑winning, world‑class professional loudspeaker systems. It is renowned for integrity in design, technical excellence and longevity of product. Our mission is to create an exceptional sonic experience.
The Role: A degree‑qualified Mechanical Design Engineer is required to join a world‑class team and develop advanced professional audio products. As a senior engineer you will demonstrate a high level of competence, own the mechanical design of products and drive development to completion while working within a multi‑disciplinary team.
Duties
- Reporting to the Mechanical Design Manager, you will be responsible for the mechanical design of loudspeaker systems, including safety‑critical lifting hardware intended for deployment over an audience area.
- You will use engineering principles and have experience of structural load analysis, hand calculation and FEA tools to validate and optimise design work.
- You will understand geometric tolerancing and tolerance stack analysis and apply these methods to ensure products fit together as required, particularly for connection and suspension loudspeaker systems.
- Design for a range of materials and processes including welded fabrication, woodworking (usually CNC), sheet metal design, extrusions, pressed metal parts, diecast and injection moulding.
- You may provide mentoring to other team members and assist with drawing checking and validation.
- You may be required to attend concerts or installations to gain experience of the use cases of our products.
- Occasionally you will visit suppliers or contract manufacturers.
Skills and Experience Required
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Design Engineering or associated discipline, with previous mechanical design or product development experience.
- Ability to problem‑solve and present solutions based on sound engineering principles.
- Proficiency in a professional 3D CAD package such as SolidWorks, Creo Parametric, Fusion 360 or similar; PTC Creo Parametric is preferred.
- Capability to produce engineering drawings for parts and assemblies, fully detailed with required inspection dimensioning and tolerancing.
- Experience using a PLM system for document control and change management.
- Expertise in geometric tolerancing and tolerance stack analysis to ensure products fit together as required.
- Skill in hand calculation and FEA tools to analyse structural components and optimise designs.
Working Hours: 8:45–17:30 Monday to Thursday, 8:45–16:00 Friday.
Benefits
Life Assurance, Income Protection, Pension, Bike2work scheme, 25 days holiday, Health Cash Plan and Private Healthcare Medical Insurance.
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