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Mechanical Engineer / Senior Mechanical Engineer

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Birmingham

Hybrid

GBP 35,000 - 60,000

Full time

14 days ago

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in Birmingham is seeking a Mechanical Engineer / Senior Mechanical Engineer. You'll play a crucial role in diverse defense projects, managing delivery against time and quality while supporting design solutions. The ideal candidate has a degree in Mechanical Engineering, project experience, and knowledge of engineering principles. This role offers competitive salary and benefits with 2-3 days on-site work per week.

Benefits

Excellent benefits

Qualifications

  • Chartership with a relevant engineering institution or progressing towards it.
  • Familiarity with design codes and standards for safety-critical industries.
  • Experience in production of design documentation.

Responsibilities

  • Support/Lead the creation of optimal design solutions.
  • Manage project delivery against time, cost and quality requirements.
  • Present work to clients at formal reviews.

Skills

Mechanical engineering principles
Design lifecycle experience
Project management
Technical documentation

Education

Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline
Job description
Overview

Mechanical Engineer / Senior Mechanical Engineer

Birmingham (2 or 3 days on site p/week)

£35,000 - £60,000 + excellent bens.

Please note sue to security restrictions we can only consider sole UK

Are you ready to take up a vital role in shaping some of our exciting projects? How about joining our talented team, where everyone has a voice, and together we face our clients' problems head-on.

As a Mechanical Engineer / Senior Mechanical Engineer in our 'Aerospace, Defence, Security and Technology' (ADS&T) business you will play an important role in delivering a wide variety of projects, ranging from niche consultancy to large, high-profile programmes. By taking a critical role within our diverse portfolio of defence projects, you can take pride in the impact your contribution will make to safeguarding our nation.

Your purpose:

As a Mechanical Engineer / Senior Mechanical Engineer within ADS&T you will:

  • Support/Lead the creation of optimal design solutions to address client requirements.
  • Produce substantiation calculations to demonstrate designs will perform as required.
  • Author and update technical documents.
  • Manage your projects' delivery against Time, Cost and Quality requirements.
  • Support our QA process through review or checking colleagues’ work.
  • Present your work to the client at formal reviews.
  • Work within project teams, these may include placements at clients’ sites.

What you can bring:

  • Degree (or equivalent) in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline.
  • Chartership with a relevant engineering institution or be progressing towards obtaining this.
  • Sound understanding of mechanical engineering principles and their application to varied projects and domains.
  • Creativity and experience across the design lifecycle including undertaking requirements capture, concept , development and down-selection.
  • Familiarity with working to design codes and industry standards appropriate for a safety critical industry.
  • Experience in the production of design documentation, including calculations, reports, specifications and requirements capture documents. Computer aided design experience.
  • Experience of participating and presenting material at formal design reviews.
  • Experience of working in teams to deliver mechanical engineering design projects. Experience working in the nuclear or other safety critical industry.
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