Food Machinery Design Draughtsman

3 weeks ago


Peterborough, United Kingdom Recra Consulting Full time

**Recra **is working in partnership with a fantastic engineering company who are keen to recruit a
**Design Draughtsman** to join their fast-growing business.

Our client provides machinery solutions to the food & beverage industry.

**The Role.**

Working under my own initiative, with support from our close-knit Project Engineering team, fulfilling “inception to completion” design and draughting requirements for food processing lines.

Developing models and fabrication drawings. Sheet-metal formations and structural steelwork. Working to and delivering highly hygienic (food safe) design standards.

**Delivering the wider project needs includes**:

- Site survey of operating areas.
- Steelwork design, load bearing calculations, fabrication drawings.
- Access walkways and staircase design and fabrication drawings.
- Documented risk assessments for the specific solutions and the interacting layout.
- Process layout refinement and design of interconnecting transfer chutes etc.
- Identify foot-loadings for interaction with construction companies.
- Identify utility connection points for the process layout.
- Receive “as installed” layouts from the installing engineer and update as necessary.
- Food machinery design.
- Hygienic food-safe solutions.
- Fabrication processes.
- CE marking, machinery directive, and guarding requirements.
- Conversant with 2D & 3D.

**The company covers the following Industry sectors**:

- Snacks food manufacturing - high volume production lines Root crop processing.
- Canning.
- Coffee processing.
- Project management of turn-key facilities.

**Draughtsman/Designer Job Description.**

**The Package**:

- Working with a dynamic team of enthusiastic engineers working under their own initiative.
- Casual yet professional open-plan office environment.
- Excellent job satisfaction through turn-key “cradle to grave” involvement.
- 3D SolidWorks trained and competent - in industrial fabrication drawings.
- Previous experience in equipment & steelwork design and fabrication techniques Minimum 3 years of industrial experience.
- HNC/HND qualification in engineering.
- Dynamic, enthusiastic, and flexible approach.
- Willing to travel (occasional need for UK and foreign site surveys).
- Commercial awareness applied to designing - value engineering approach Excellent people skills and clear communicator with the ability to form strong team bonds.
- Computer literate with working knowledge of the following:

- SolidWorks (Weldments, sheet-metal, part modeling, piping, stress analysis) AutoCAD.


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