Mechanical Design Engineer

Engineering Delivery Solutions Ltd; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a talented Mechanical Design Engineer to join their innovative New Product Development team. In this role, you will be at the forefront of creating cutting-edge solutions for critical power applications, ensuring that products meet customer needs while adhering to strict quality and performance standards. You will have the opportunity to work with advanced CAD tools, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive improvements that enhance product offerings. If you are passionate about mechanical design and eager to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Mechanical Design or NPD roles with proven product experience.
• Proficient in CAD tools like Creo or Inventor.

Responsibilities

• Lead mechanical design and create technical specifications and drawings.
• Ensure product compliance with safety and performance standards.

Skills

Mechanical Design

Problem Solving

Communication Skills

Project Management

Education

BSc / BEng Mechanical degree

Tools

Creo

Inventor

Microsoft 365

Job description

Our client is at the cutting edge of innovation and largest global manufacturer of load banks and power test solutions. Their products and equipment replicate real world demands of power system infrastructure for mission critical power applications such as Datacentres, Healthcare, Microgrids, large commercial buildings (eg: financial institutions) where the power must stay on, even if the grid fails.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Working within the New Product Development (NPD) team, you will be responsible for defining, developing and delivering new and enhanced products that meet the needs customers in a timely and cost-efficient manner to the correct performance, legislation and quality standards.

You will ensure design intent is realised through timely interaction and communication with key customers, suppliers and internal cross functional team members.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Concept creation using market and customer requirements data. Getting involved in voice of customer (VOC) exercises as and when required.
2. Mechanical design - lead the generation of:
3. mechanical designs using suitable analysis tools and
4. creation of mechanical drawings, models and schematics using suitable CAD packages.
5. Define, lead and support product FMEA’s, validation and testing programs as required.
6. System integration - ensuring products are designed for manufacture (DFM) and meet the expected performance targets plus outputs.
7. Creation of engineering technical specifications and BOM’s.
8. Creation of test reports and technical documents to support future customer product use.
9. Identify and implement opportunities for improvement to enhance future products by keeping abreast of new and emerging technologies.
10. Ongoing system and process improvements to enhance working practices and drive department / business efficiency.
11. Ensure product safety and compliance is achieved re. agreed codes & standards (e.g. CE, UL, CSA).

ABOUT YOU:

1. BSc / BEng Mechanical degree plus proven industrial and product experience.
2. 5+ years’ working within a Mechanical Design or NPD role.
3. Proficient, time served user of Creo / Inventor or equivalent CAD package plus Microsoft 365.
4. Professional Engineering (PE) status (preferred).
5. Ideally electrical machine design experience linked to load banks, gensets, transformers and/or grid connect power transmission circuits and systems.
6. Ideally, the ability to perform sizing calculations and studies using FEA and CFD analysis packages as well as hand calculations.
7. A strong personality with energy, drive, adaptability, problem solving and decision-making capability. Ideally, having worked with similar electrical products and can bring an aligned and best practice experience to allow the continued growth of the engineering team / business.
8. Good communication skills, both verbal and written, comfortable presenting to and engaging with multi-level stakeholder audiences both internally and externally.
9. Organised, self-disciplined, numerate, with excellent attention to detail and the ability to deliver in a timely manner as required.
10. Both people and process orientated to help drive and achieve common goals through relationship building and collaboration.

Applicants must speak good/fluent English and be cleared to work in the UK.