Principal Mechanical Engineer

2 weeks ago


Cambridge, United Kingdom Polytec Personnel Ltd Full time

Location: Cambridge (CB4)
Duration: Permanent
Hours: 8:30am until 4:30pm (Monday to Friday)

**Salary**: Competitive
Job Reference: 33855
Polytec are looking for a Principal Mechanical Engineer for our Cambridge based client. This role will cover all stages of product development, from requirements definition through concept generation, detailed design, prototyping and transfer to manufacture.

**Responsibilities**:

- Lead the mechanical engineering team, developing next generation products
- Developing experimental test systems to support the design and qualification of individual components and sub-systems, both optical and mechanical
- Assist with the sustainable growth of the mechanical engineering team, responsible for the day-to-day management and professional development
**Requirements**:

- Extensive post-graduate experience in mechanical design (within industry or academia). A master's or PhD in mechanical engineering or a related discipline would be advantageous.
- Expert in analytical and numerical structural analysis, materials selection, 3D CAD (preferably SolidWorks), and designing bespoke components for a variety of fabrication processes, including CNC machining and additive manufacturing
- Experience designing in high-performance alloys, polymers and ceramics
- Experience of transferring mechanically complex products into volume manufacture
- Line management experience or of mentoring junior colleagues
- Experience with packaging laser-based photonic systems, automated assembly techniques, and micromechanics or MEMS fabrication. Familiarity with audited quality management would also be advantageous.
We will respond to successful applicants within a couple of days.



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