Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

1 week ago


Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom Defence Full time
Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join our team in the Defence industry. As a key member of our design team, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality design solutions that meet the needs of our customers.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Design and Development: Lead the design and development of complex electromechanical mechanisms and precision machinery, utilizing your expertise in 3D CAD software such as SolidWorks.
  • Technical Leadership: Act as the technical lead within a small, mixed-discipline project design team, ensuring that design solutions are delivered within cost, time, and quality constraints.
  • Collaboration and Communication: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to perform classical engineering analysis on designs, including stress, fatigue, and vibration, using both conventional methods and computer simulations.
  • Testing and Validation: Conduct lab testing to verify and ensure that design outputs meet the required design inputs.
  • Documentation and Reporting: Lead and develop engineering reports to support new product designs, failure investigations, and other formal documentation to fulfill customer requirements.
  • Integration and Support: Work closely with wider engineering teams to integrate electronic, control, and drive systems into equipment designs, and provide support for production, testing, and field engineering teams.
  • Project Management: Work alongside project managers and sales teams to provide time estimates for design activities and track progress.
  • Proposal and Quotation Support: Assist the Sales Team in preparing proposals, quotations, and sales literature.
  • Project Delivery: Take responsibility for the timely delivery of project outputs within defined deadlines.
Requirements:
  • Experience: Proven experience in designing complex mechanisms and structures, with a strong background in 3D CAD systems (ideally SolidWorks).
  • Skills: Expertise in analyzing loads and designing solutions for drive mechanisms and motor systems, with a strong understanding of machining, casting, fabrication, and moulding techniques.
  • Leadership: Ability to lead a project design team, manage workload, and oversee design outputs.
  • Education: Degree educated in Mechanical Engineering.
  • Personal Attributes: A flair for innovation, new concept designs, and a passion for mechanical engineering, with effective communication skills and strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
Benefits:
  • Security Clearance: Due to the nature of the business, candidates must be eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance.
  • Work-Life Balance: 37.5-hour working week, lunchtime finishes on Fridays, hybrid/flexible working arrangements, 28 days of annual leave, Christmas closure, and holiday purchasing scheme.
  • Benefits Package: Group pension plan with matched contributions up to 5%, income protection and Employee Assistance Programmes, life assurance policy with bereavement counseling and probate helpline, company share incentive plan and saveasyouearn scheme, electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme, wellbeing initiatives, regular sports and social activities, gym membership discounts, reward platform with high street discounts and employee benefits, recruitment referral bonus scheme, and excellent learning and development opportunities.


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