Senior Mechanical Design Engineer with CNC Expertise

3 weeks ago


Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom Infinity Quest Full time

At Infinity Quest, we are seeking an accomplished Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join our team.

About the Role

This is a fantastic opportunity for a skilled mechanical engineer with expertise in CNC engineering to take on a challenging role that will allow them to utilize their technical knowledge and experience to drive the success of our projects.

We are looking for someone who is proficient in designing and developing mechanical systems, structures, and products, as well as having a solid understanding of manufacturing techniques including sheet metal fabrication, riveting, bonding, and welding.

About the Job Description

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

  • Providing design engineering services support to Land projects while following project plans and working to defined standards of quality.
  • Promoting the implementation of Systems and/or Mechanical Engineering across the Customer's Engineering function.
  • Developing an in-depth knowledge of the standards and specification appropriate to the discipline of Systems and/or Mechanical Engineering.
  • Applying a pragmatic and best practice Systems and/or Mechanical Engineering techniques to support our projects and business development activities.
  • Working effectively across the matrix and delivering bottom-line performance collaboratively.
  • Challenging the status quo, bringing new ideas to reduce project/product cost and improve engineering quality, productivity, and timeliness of delivery.
  • Creating, contributing, and working to standards, ensuring rigor, resilience, and continuous improvement in design solutions, meeting all regulatory requirements, conforming to specifications, quality, and certification requirements within schedule and budget.
  • Acting as a project integrator and interface between project management and other engineering teams.
  • Designing products that are safe and meet all statutory requirements. Ensuring design solutions are tolerant of the environment in which they operate. Resolving design queries.
  • Producing, amending, and checking drawings and Item lists for use by other departments in line with department processes. Carrying out drawing check and supporting sign-off through production.
  • Maintaining a current and up-to-date knowledge of developments of existing and new products in order to recommend innovations to improve the quality and effectiveness of company products.
  • Controlling product, build standard, drawing, and document configuration control.
  • Supporting various design review meetings (SRR, ERR, PDR, CDR, change boards etc.).
  • Supporting creation of redlines or other design change management process where required.
  • Providing support to other departments, including production, as required.
  • Carrying out PLM admin and Configuration Control activities. Analyzing Change Requests within PLM.
  • Creating and updating Engineering Change Notification for new and existing tasks/products.
  • Building Top-Level Assemblies and Bills of Material (BOM) structure in PLM for new products/projects.
  • Collaborating across Engineering Functions, including Electrical and Manufacturing.
  • Providing technical guidance to, and overseeing a small number of engineers when Project needs arise.
  • Other duties as assigned by the Engineering Manager – Mechanical.
About the Skills and Qualifications

The ideal candidate will possess:

  • A degree in Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics from an accredited university with relevant and sufficient experience in the field or equivalent knowledge gained through other forms of education.
  • Domain experience in mechanical engineering with Modular Shelter-based products preferred.
  • A minimum of five years of experience in aircraft or land design with structural and/or analysis experience preferred.
  • Experience being part of a team delivering and planning large and complex tasks to schedule and budget demonstrating effective time management across many projects and priorities.
  • A sound understanding of product safety, standards, and rugged environments.
  • Meticulous attention to detail and strong problem-solving skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to support multiple projects at once.
  • A strong aptitude for developing computing skills and the ability to learn new software packages.
  • Proficiency in Autodesk Inventor.
  • Proficiency in Windchill PLM with experience in populating Part attributes, building Part structures, raising and completing Change Requests, Change Notices, and Change Tasks, is preferred.
  • Microsoft Software including Word and Excel.
  • A broad understanding of manufacturing techniques including, sheet metal fabrication, riveting, bonding, and welding.
  • Demonstrated effectiveness in using professional or technical expertise to make decisions and provide guidance to colleagues.
  • Excellent communication & interpersonal skills: fluent written and oral English are mandatory and competence in French is beneficial;

Estimated Salary: $80,000 - $110,000 per annum, based on location and experience.

Why Infinity Quest?

We offer a dynamic work environment, competitive salary, and excellent benefits package.

If you are a motivated and experienced mechanical engineer looking for a new challenge, please submit your application.



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