Lead Design Engineer

Lead Design Engineer – Special Purpose Machinery

Birmingham, West Midlands – Full time – Salary: £58,000 – £70,000 per annum plus benefits.

Join a market‑leading food packaging and automation machinery manufacturer as a Lead Design Engineer and become a key part of a growing design team working on highly technical special purpose machinery.

Responsibilities

• Lead the mechanical design of special purpose machinery projects.
• Design machinery from inception through to production and delivery.
• Manage 2–3 projects simultaneously while working closely with production and procurement teams on‑site.
• Produce detailed mechanical designs using SolidWorks.
• Support automation, robotic, pneumatic, and electro‑mechanical machinery projects.
• Involve in costing and manufacturing considerations.
• Maintain a hybrid split role between on‑site and remote work.

Qualifications

• Experience working with special purpose machinery.
• Strong mechanical engineering understanding, including pneumatics, hydraulics, automation, robotics, conveyors, etc.
• Basic electrical understanding, including single‑phase systems.
• Knowledge of fabrication and sheet metal design.
• Background within food or packaging machinery – desirable.
• SolidWorks experience – desirable.
• Ability to commute to the Birmingham site.

Benefits

• OEM training and long‑term technical progression.
• Hybrid role (on‑site and remote).
• Monday to Friday working pattern.
• Private healthcare and life assurance.
• Cycle scheme.
• Organised holidays and pension.
• Job satisfaction and innovative project involvement.

This position is open to all candidates who are legally permitted to work in the United Kingdom.

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