Mechanical Design Engineer

**Mechanical Design Engineer - Competitive Salary - Fareham, England**

**The Role
Are you an ambitious mechanical engineer and product delivery focused individual?Have you gained professional experience following further education and are looking to develop your career into a growing industry at the forefront of EV technology?If so,we are looking for you.

We are seeking a passionate, high performing Mechanical Design Engineer for a disruptive research, development, and manufacturing company for the clean marine propulsion sector. Our present team of systems, electrical, mechanical, and manufacturing engineersis growing rapidly.

This new role of Mechanical Design Engineer will be key in working with the engineering team to ensure the success of R&D, design and manufacturing projects through planning to timely and on-cost completion.

**Key Responsibilities
The key responsibilities of a Mechanical Design Engineer include, but are not limited to:

- Developing design concepts from a blank sheet of paper.
- Working with other design engineers to ensure design integration.
- Progressing designs from a concept level to a high quality, detailed design.
- Creating high quality manufacturing drawings from part and assembly designs.
- Contribute and lead DFM / cost-out design optimisation processes.
- Using CAE tools (Solidworks Simulation, Solidworks Flow Simulation, etc.) to analyse optimise designs for performance, cost and reliability.
- Verify designs to ensure they meet all requirements in applicable design specifications.
- Verifying mechanical design outputs from other engineers.
- Leading design reviews with customers and internal business stakeholders.
- Assisting in the environmental life-cycle assessment of developed products.
- Assisting in the performance and documentation of product validation exercises (validation analyses, compliance matrices etc).
- Assisting in the creation of product user-documentation etc. and manufacturing plans.
- Providing feedback to project management regarding sub-task progress and time estimations.
- Work to Ecomar Propulsion’s design and verification processes.

**The Company
Ecomar Propulsion is an ambitious new company developing clean propulsion systems for the marine environment. The ‘Purpose’ of Ecomar is to Research, Develop and Manufacture high quality and ‘marine safe’ clean electric propulsion systems.

All employees are expected to use their best endeavours, each day, to ensure that the Purpose is foremost in their thinking and delivery of their personal outputs.

**The Benefits
- Benefits: 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays.
- Pension.
- Cycle to Work Scheme.

**The Person
The key skills and qualities of a Mechanical Design Engineer are:

- Degree qualification or extensive experience in mechanical engineering or product design (or equivalent).
- 1-3 years’ experience in marine, automotive, manufacturing or EV industry or similar.
- Motivated self-starter, strong time management, critical thinker, organised project management.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong sense of reasoning to match engineering outcomes with commercial requirements.
- Ability to create top-level design concepts that overcome difficult engineering problems.
- Excellent skills realising design concepts using Solidworks CAD software.
- Knowledge and experience of varied materials and manufacturing methods including casting, machining, fabrication and moulding.
- Knowledge and experience of GD&T.
- Strong mechanical drafting skills.
- Hands-on prototyping, assembly, and prototype part reworking skills.
- Experience in using FEA to analyse structural suitability of designed parts and assemblies.
- Experience in creating designs optimised for manufacture (DFM).
- Understanding of material selection for marine environments.
- Experience working to a quality management system (e.g. ISO9001).