Mechanical Engineer

**Mechanical Engineer**

**Location**:Nottingham
**Salary**:£40k - £45k per annum DOE
**Contract**:Full time, Permanent
**Hours**:40 hours per week (Flexible hours and remote working are possible)

**Benefits**:Competitive holidays, performance-based (non-contractual) bonus scheme, pension scheme

We at Cerca Magnetics Limited all have a shared goal: to make a real difference to people’s lives through technological advances. If you want to do the same, joining our passionate team of technical and business experts might be the right career move foryou

Cerca Magnetics Limited (Cerca) was founded in 2020 and works in partnership with The University of Nottingham and Magnetic Shields Limited.

The team have commercialised the world’s most advanced functional brain scanner -a lightweight wearable device that uses Optically-Pumped Magnetometers (OPMs) to measure the magnetic fields within the brain.

Unlike other scanners such as MRI’s, our system can be worn by both adults and children as the participant can move about whilst being scanned. The information provided could contribute towards medical advances in treating epilepsy and other neurologicalconditions such as mTBIs and dementia. We are currently working towards gaining medical approvals for use in epilepsy diagnosis and treatment.

Following initial sales in the research market, Cerca’s vision is to offer the system to healthcare providers around the world and revolutionise functional brain imaging; to make a real difference to those that suffer from debilitating neurological problems.We share a dream of contributing towards the treatment of a young child who instead of facing a life suffering from daily epileptic seizures, could live their life free from the condition

Due to these ongoing and exciting growth plans, Cerca are now currently recruiting for a Mechanical Engineer to join the team. The opportunity is to not only join the Company in a very interesting role but also to influence the direction of Cerca itself

**Mechanical Engineer - the role**:
As a Mechanical Engineer, you will be tasked with taking new products from concept designs to finished product. This will include concept development, conducting design evaluation, analysis and simulation, DFMA, detailed manufacturing drawings, materialspecification/selection, material/process testing and writing detailed reports

**In addition to this as our Mechanical Engineer you will be responsible for**:

- Produce mechanical designs and solutions for bespoke components and products, meeting requirements for our worldwide customers
- Responsible for the full lifecycle design - concept design, 2D/3D CAD modelling, analysis and simulation engineering drawings and designing for manufacture, as well as maintenance and design improvement considerations
- Completing analysis of designs, including finalising loads and boundary conditions, pass criteria, details of the design, presentation of results and recommendations and other related issues
- Representing the company during face-to-face meetings with customers to ensure their requirements are being adhered to
- Sales team liaison to capture product requirements and create design specifications
- Liasing with colleagues to produce standard operating procedures to detail manufacturing and assembly methods
- Working as part of a team to build and deliver the products within budget and timescales
- Contribute to the overall Cerca team to assist the Company with its period of expansion
- Share our passion and dream. To make a difference.

**Essential skills**:

- A degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar discipline
- 5 years previous experience in relevant mechanical engineering role that includes lifecycle design experience - concept design, 2D/3D modelling, engineering drawings and designing for manufacture as well as maintenance and design improvement considerations
- Experience using 3D CAD software (Ideally Siemens NX)
- Experience using FEA and other analytical software packages (e.g. Nastran) is essential
- Strong understanding of Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA)
- Experience designing with a wide range of materials and manufacturing processes with the ability to optimize for performance, mass, strength/durability, and cost.
- Analytical skills, including structural and tolerance analysis and use of FEA, mathematical analysis and modelling tools.
- Capable of producing detailed drawings required to manufacture/assemble/purchase
- Experience of tolerance analysis including manufactured parts and assembly tolerance stack up
- Be familiar with Low Volume manufacturing techniques
- Able to communicate with external suppliers on the manufacturing feasibility & technical requirements of designs at all stages of development
- Creating test programs / procedures for new and existing products.
- Team player - can engage and contribute to a small expanding team
- Good communication skills
- Self-motivated, self-starter in attitude and approach

**Desirable Skills**:

- Experience with advanced manufacturing techniques and materials
- Experience of developing and implementing creative solutions utilising a wide range of technologies, ideally meeting the requirements of ISO 13485 and IEC 60601.
- Be comfortable creating engineering documentation (Drawings, Calculations, Test Reports etc) in line with a QMS, ideally ISO 13485.
- Experience with use of ERP and/or MRP systems

No agencies please.