Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Posted 12/04/2024 by Nicholas Associates
Position : Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Sector : Mechanical Engineering
Location : Sheffield
Salary : £50,000 - £60,000
In this role you will be responsible for product design, development, and detailing utilizing CAD software and other engineering skills / calculations. Developing engineering and coordinating a team of Designers being responsible for Projects specific areas, machines, technologies and working closely with Project Engineer to reach assigned targets.
Your responsibilities will include:
· Accountable for the completion of 3D modelling, detail design, technical calculations, and product development as assigned by management utilizing the internal software and tools.
· Responsible for assigned portion of product design and development process, ensuring project schedules are maintained while following the Company standards.
· Coordinate and mentor the Designer Engineers, whilst maintaining responsibility for Projects within specific areas, working closely with Project Engineers to reach assigned target
· Develop the layout of areas of equipment, proposal layout, basic engineering of new mechanical equipment based on Customer requests
· Carry out complex mechanical calculations
· Oversee Design Engineers during detail engineering stage
· Participate in commercial / technical (basic and detail design) meetings worldwide. This will involve customer interaction and other business units such as Civil, Piping, Automation
· Assist Purchasing, Manufacturing, Erection and Commissioning Departments during handling of developed engineering where necessary
· Continuous monitoring on project progress, identify any areas of concern, escalate where necessary and manage customer expectations
· Support sales activities through drawing/document creation and on-site reverse engineering of products.
· Liaison with representatives from suppliers during technical evaluations of project solutions.
· Manage expectations, clarify requirements and make requests, including submission deadline changes, as required.
About you:
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent relevant experience.
- 3-5 years of experience in 2D and 3D CAD required (Autodesk Inventor an advantage but not essential) within an OEM structured engineering department
- Metallurgy, material science, heat treatment; specific knowledge in cutting, welding, heat treatment and machining
- Mechanical calculations (NX, MathCAD, Microsoft Excel)
- Free reading of design/technical documentation
- To operate freely with international documentation: technical books, standards, catalogues etc (AutoCAD, Inventor)
- Work in international groups with ability to communicate both verbally and written and work within a worldwide team environment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving ability looking at overall results and finer details.
- Ability to prioritise workload, on-time delivery and deliver on-time results to Company standards whilst working on multiple projects.
- Experience undertaking structured writing in the form of technical reports.
- Available for regular business travel (worldwide)
- Basic product/plant understanding and know-how (what pieces go where and how to find reference information).
- Type:
- Permanent
- Start Date:
- 2024-05-06 00:0
- Contract Length:
- N/A
- Contact Name:
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- Job Reference:
- JN -042024-59625_1712934499
- Job ID:
- 221465665
- Applications:
- Less than 10
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