Mechanical Design Engineer

Cubiq Recruitment; Dundee; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Cubiq Recruitment is seeking a Mechanical Design Engineer for an onsite Dundee role. You’ll design high-speed electromechanical devices, from concept through to production, with involvement across mechanisms, prototyping, testing and release into manufacturing.

You’ll bring a Mechanical Engineering degree and about 2+ years’ experience, solid CAD skills (Creo/ProE or SolidWorks), and experience in tolerance analysis. Travel internationally may be required for customer support.

Qualifications

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering with around 2 years of relevant experience.
• Solid CAD skills in Creo/ProE or SolidWorks, with drawing and tolerancing.
• Experience in stress and tolerance analysis or FEA is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Supporting new and existing products from a mechanical design perspective.
• Evaluating technologies and backing your recommendations with analysis.
• Designing mechanisms and working with tooling suppliers and part manufacturers.
• Delivering cost-effective designs to spec and engineering standards.
• Running design reviews, stress and tolerance analysis, testing and root-cause problem solving.
• Managing supplier engagement and engineering change.
• Working closely with electronics and software engineers.
• Releasing design changes with full documentation.

Skills

CAD skills

Creo/ProE or SolidWorks

Drawing & tolerancing

FEA

DFM

Drive systems knowledge

International travel

Education

Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

FEA tools

Job description

Mechanical Design Engineer | Dundee (Onsite) | £38-45K + paid overtime

Most mechanical engineers spend their careers on one slice of a product. This role gives you the whole thing: mechanisms you help design, prototype, test and release into high-volume manufacture.

You’ll join an established engineering team in Dundee designing high-speed electromechanical devices, built to run reliably across very different climates and environments worldwide. It’s precision mechanism work, and you’ll see your designs in production.

What you’ll be doing

• Supporting new and existing products from a mechanical design perspective
• Evaluating technologies and backing your recommendations with analysis
• Designing mechanisms and working with tooling suppliers and part manufacturers
• Delivering cost-effective designs to spec and engineering standards
• Running design reviews, stress and tolerance analysis, testing and root-cause problem solving
• Managing supplier engagement and engineering change
• Working closely with electronics and software engineers
• Releasing design changes with full supporting documentation

What you’ll bring

• A degree in Mechanical Engineering and around 2+ years’ relevant experience
• Solid CAD skills in Creo/ProE or SolidWorks, plus drawing, dimensioning and tolerancing
• Stress and tolerance analysis; FEA or simulation experience is a plus
• Design for manufacture across plastic moulding, sheet metal and tooling
• An understanding of mechanical drive systems and rapid prototyping
• Bonus points for mechanism design or assemblies with PCBs and harnesses
• Happy to travel internationally now and then for customer support and analysis

This is a fully onsite role, and for good reason: you’ll be hands-on with the hardware every day, building, testing and troubleshooting the mechanisms you design rather than working from a screen alone.

What’s in it for you

• A team where people stay: many of the engineers here have built long careers on site, so you’ll learn from colleagues with years of deep product knowledge
• Genuine career development, with structured learning and room to grow your technical scope over time
• Broad, hands-on mechanism design experience across the full product lifecycle, which is hard to find elsewhere
• Strong pension, private medical and dental, life and income protection, and health screening
• Holiday buy, cycle to work and a range of lifestyle discounts