Design & Development Engineer
2 weeks ago
Job Title: Design & Development Engineer
Job Type: Permanent
Salary: £DOE
Location: Northampton (Hybrid Working Available)
Industry: Complex Machinery – Rotating Equipment
Wentworth James Group has engaged with a key client and a world leading manufacturer of specialist high performance rotating measurement solutions for various industries including Aerospace, Automotive, Industrial & Oil & Gas. An exciting opportunity has risen for a Applications / Design & Development Engineer to join this innovative business on a permanent basis.
As the Design & Development or Applications & Development engineers assist Business Development to provide technical solutions to customer enquiries and study, research and develop ideas for new products and methods used to make them. You will be working on a wide range of high-speed rotating machinery, couplings and test rigs of bespoke design that must be functional, reliable, easy and safe to use, including modifying existing products or processes to increase efficiency or improve performance.
Applicants must have the following qualifications:
- A 2.1 degree in Mechanical engineering with Aerospace/Automotive/Energy/Oil & Gas background together with 3 to 5 years of demonstrable experience in a similar role.
- Working knowledge and experience of CAD & PDM (preferably SolidWorks) and FEA tools (preferably Ansys Workbench and/or SolidWorks Simulation).
- Ability to create and interpret engineering drawings with GD&T.
- Ability to perform hand calculations for preliminary design, sizing, and stress assessment of static and rotating components.
- Material selection ability and knowledge of conventional manufacturing processes.
- Good understanding of Applied Mechanics, Strength of Materials, Metal Fatigue, Rotordynamics, and Vibrations along with a basic understanding of heat transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics.
- Quick learner with the ability to work independently and multitask.
- Ability to write excel/VBA macros to create new or modify existing design tools.
We are looking for an individual that is by nature innovative, proactive, and self-motivated. You will need a good interpersonal manner together with strong written and oral communication skills to deal with customers, suppliers, and internal departments. You will be commercially aware and have excellent time management abilities.
An appreciation and experience of specifying electrical control systems and power electronics, including drives, motors & power sources, for test stand applications would be advantageous.
The main duties of this role will be:
- Support the Chief Applications Engineer in providing timely response to new application and product enquiries for driveline components (couplings, spindles etc.) and turnkey test rigs for testing high-speed rotating machines such as e-motors, generators, aero engines, gearboxes, turbines, compressors, pumps, turbochargers etc.
- Produce innovative designs/ideas and create workable and cost-effective solutions.
- Assist in product costing and preparation of technical and commercial proposals.
- Assist in new product development and product improvement activities including brainstorming, design, analysis, supplier selection and testing.
- Create 3D CAD conceptual designs and 2D drawings.
- Collaborate with manufacturing, assembly and testing to build in-house R&D test rigs for new product development.
- The ability to conduct test schedules, document the results and present these findings clearly.
- Work on short and long-term projects both in managing, documenting, and performing the project activities.
- The selection and specification of suitable equipment suppliers and processes.
In return for your skills we will offer you a competitive salary, together with an excellent contributory pension scheme, death in service and income protection benefits, and a non-contractual annual profit share bonus. Support to apply for and/ or maintain your IMechE membership is available.
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