Mechanical Design Engineer

Assystem UK Ltd; Warrington; On-site; GBP 48,216,000 - 82,656,000; Full time

Job summary

Assystem is recruiting for a Mechanical Design Engineer to work at a customer site in Warrington on a contract basis. The role requires delivering robust mechanical designs across the product lifecycle, collaborating with manufacturing and service engineering, and ensuring design integrity and standards compliance.

The ideal candidate has a strong engineering background, experience in design safety justification activities, and the ability to work across disciplines in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, Master's or PhD in Engineering or regional equivalent qualification or equivalent technical capability based on practical knowledge and experience.
• Technical experience relevant to the engineering discipline.
• Ability to apply logical, analytical and innovative thinking on a range of technical problems.
• Knowledge and experience of product integrity / liability and justification.
• Membership of a relevant professional body or working towards.
• Experience as design engineer operating across the product life cycle, undertaking design safety justification activities.
• Experience in development of methods, standards and processes.

Responsibilities

• To understand Product system/sub-system requirements and derive Component requirements at task level.
• To produce robust design solutions which are insensitive to variation to address specified requirements.
• To collaborate and communicate design solution information with task stakeholders.
• To search for, capture, store, and re-use knowledge relating to design activity.
• To understand and apply the commodity standards and to create new standards where none exist.
• To liaise with manufacturing and service engineering to actively integrate the experience and knowledge from these areas.
• To check own and others' design solutions and technical for completeness and correctness.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Innovative thinking

Stakeholder communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree / Master's / PhD in Engineering or regional equivalent

Job description

Responsibilities

• To understand Product system/sub-system requirements and derive Component requirements at task level.
• To produce robust design solutions which are insensitive to variation to address specified requirements.
• To collaborate and communicate design solution information with task stakeholders.
• To search for, capture, store, and re-use knowledge relating to design activity.
• To understand and apply the commodity standards and to create new standards where none exist.
• To liaise with manufacturing and service engineering to actively integrate the experience and knowledge from these areas.
• To check own and others' design solutions and technical for completeness and correctness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, Master's or PhD in Engineering or regional equivalent qualification or equivalent technical capability based on practical knowledge and experience.
• Technical experience relevant to the engineering discipline.
• An ability to apply logical, analytical and innovative thinking on a range of technical problems.
• Knowledge and experience of product integrity / liability and justification.
• Membership of a relevant professional body or working towards.
• Experience as design engineer operating across the product life cycle, undertaking design safety justification activities supporting manufacturing, integration, maintenance/refit activities and dealing with operational issues.
• Experience of Research and development, analytical and test verification activities.
• Experience in the development of methods, standards and processes.

Please be aware that many roles at Assystem are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Assystem is an international company with one mission: accelerate the energy transition around the world. Every day, our 6,500 switchers located in 12 countries (Europe, Middle East, Pacific Asia & Africa) connect their six thousand billion neurons to tackle the task of the century: switching to low-carbon energy. We are a collective committed to the actors who are making the energy switch. Sharing our knowledge, expertise and values allows us to innovate and think differently about the energy transition. Drawing on more than 55 years' experience in highly regulated sectors subject to strict security and safety requirements, we provide our customers with engineering and project management services, as well as digital services and solutions to optimise the performance of complex infrastructure projects throughout their life cycle. The Group is currently ranked second in the world for nuclear engineering. To ensure a viable, efficient, and reliable energy future for all., Assystem Energy & Infrastructure are recruiting for a Mechanical Design Engineer to work at our customer's site in Warrington on a contract basis.