Mechanical Design Engineer
Salary: £38,000 - £45,000
Bridgend
We are currently recruiting for a Mechanical Design Engineer to join an innovative and successful privately owned company in Bridgend that designs and manufactures hi‑tech capital equipment for worldwide export.
Responsibilities
- Work in collaboration with electrical, controls and software engineers to design and implement cost‑effective equipment and solutions for engineering problems, helping improve safety, reliability and throughput.
- Develop project specifications with colleagues, often including those from other engineering disciplines.
- Produce details of specifications and outline designs.
- Design robust solutions within a 3D environment, ensuring best practice modelling to minimise waste in the model and eliminate conflicting information between models and drawings.
- Discuss and solve complex problems with customers, internal departments, sub‑contractors and suppliers, considering cost, safety and time constraints.
- Create documentation for the release of products to production, including BoM, spares list, build instructions and assembly drawings.
- Assemble prototypes, recommending modifications following prototype test results.
- Prepare product documentation for service, publications, sales and marketing.
- Create engineering drawings conforming to BS8888, ISO 9001 and internal company standards for presentation to various suppliers.
- Ensure designs conform to international standards and directives.
Qualifications
- Degree level in Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Science, Manufacturing Engineering or equivalent, with experience in a product development environment specifically design for manufacture, assembly and service.
- Experience using Autodesk Inventor for part drawing and assembly creation; other CAD packages such as Creo or Solidworks also considered.
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