Mechanical Design Engineer

KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Life insurance

Cycle to work scheme

Health and wellbeing programme

On site parking

Regular company events

Job summary

KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd is seeking a SolidWorks Mechanical Design Engineer for their York site. You will take products from concept through to manufacture, creating inventive yet buildable designs and comprehensive manufacturing packs that accompany parts through production.

The role involves collaborating with electronics and software colleagues, reviewing existing products, and driving improvements to meet deadlines. On-site parking and a competitive pension are included.

Qualifications

• Several years' hands-on SolidWorks experience designing mechanical products.
• Knowledge of sheet metal, machined parts, bearings, assemblies.
• Experience working with suppliers and improving legacy designs.
• Practical workshop experience building prototypes.

Responsibilities

• Generate inventive yet buildable mechanical designs with multidisciplinary teams.
• Develop products from concept to manufacture.
• Create manufacturing packs: drawings and work instructions using SolidWorks.
• Participate in design reviews and testing to meet standards.
• Support colleagues across product development and manufacturing.
• Review and improve existing products.
• Work to project deadlines and adapt as needed.

Skills

SolidWorks

Mechanical design

Manufacturing processes

Supplier collaboration

Prototyping

Project delivery

Documentation

Communication

Job description

Solidworks Mechanical Design Engineer – York – 35,000 to 40,000 (Permanent, Full Time)

There's a particular kind of satisfaction in designing something that thousands of people will interact with, night after night, in some of the liveliest and most visually spectacular environments going. KO2 is working exclusively with a client who sits right at the sharp end of that world: a business with genuine engineering pedigree, half a century of it in fact, that designs and builds the complex electromechanical hardware behind large scale digital and broadcast entertainment systems. Think precision, think polish, think products that have to work flawlessly under proper scrutiny, and you're somewhere near the mark.

They're now after a Mechanical Design Engineer to join a well established Hardware Development team based at their York site, working alongside electronics and software colleagues on products that go from a rough sketch on a whiteboard right through to full production.

What you'll be getting stuck into

• Generating mechanical designs that are genuinely inventive but also, crucially, buildable, working closely within a multidisciplinary team
• Carrying products through the full development journey, from early concept and proof of principle work through detailed design and on into manufacture
• Producing proper manufacturing packs: component drawings, assembly drawings and work instructions, using SolidWorks alongside the usual Microsoft Office tools
• Getting involved in design reviews and testing, making sure everything meets the standard the department expects
• Lending a hand to colleagues across product development and manufacturing when it's needed
• Reviewing and improving existing products, not just chasing new ones
• Working to project deadlines, and mucking in with whatever else the business reasonably needs from you

What you'll need to bring

• Several years' hands on experience designing products in SolidWorks, ideally three years or more
• A solid working knowledge of mechanical manufacturing processes and what each is actually capable of, including sheet metal work (cut and bent), hard and soft tooled mouldings, bearings and drives, electromechanical interfaces, machined and turned components, and the sensible use of off the shelf parts
• Experience working directly with suppliers to properly understand what their processes can and can't do
• A knack for picking up legacy designs quickly and finding ways to genuinely improve them
• Practical workshop experience, comfortable making and modifying parts to build prototypes and prove out a design
• A real enthusiasm for technology and design, and an appetite for learning
• The ability to talk engineering sense to technical and non technical people alike
• Strong organisational skills and the discipline to hit agreed completion dates
• A full driving licence, and the right to work in the UK

What's in it for you

• proper pension scheme
• life insurance
• a cycle to work scheme
• a health and wellbeing programme
• free on site parking
• regular company events

You’ll be based primarily at the York site, with occasional travel down to a satellite site in the Staffordshire area, so it suits someone who doesn't mind the odd day out of the office but wants a proper home base too.