Principal Mechanical Design Engineer

Tatton Recruitment; Marsh; Hybrid; GBP 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary circa £70 000 per annum

Training and Development

Career progression

Job summary

Certain Advantage is seeking a Principal Mechanical Design Engineer for the Huddersfield area. This permanent, hybrid role will lead a small, experienced team and drive high-value mechanical designs involving gears, gearboxes, and transmission systems.

You will steer engineering strategy, set design requirements, conduct simulations, and chair design reviews to secure client acceptance and on-time delivery.

Qualifications

• Design of transmission systems, gears, and gearboxes.
• Mechanical specifications, scopes of work, calculations, drawings, and schedules.
• Analysis of complex design issues, identifying root causes and implementing effective solutions.
• Iterate and refine designs through testing and analysis to ensure compliance with specifications.
• Manage and track design changes to existing products.
• Working knowledge of key design tools, including Solid Edge, Siemens NX, and AutoCAD.
• Confident in chairing design review meetings.

Responsibilities

• Lead and line manage the team, coordinating workloads, resolving issues, and ensuring delivery against timescales, KPIs, and customer requirements.
• Lead complex, high-value projects, delivering innovative, technically advanced solutions and providing expert guidance.
• Drive quality in simulation deliverables and lead continuous improvement initiatives within the delivery stream.
• Manage non-conformance, implementing corrective actions and process improvements.
• Contribute to engineering strategy, best practices, and process development to enhance operational performance.
• Define and capture design requirements, ensuring clarity and alignment throughout delivery.
• Lead internal and external design reviews, securing client acceptance of designs.
• Provide expert technical support in mechanical engineering across projects

Skills

Gear design

Transmission systems

Mechanical analysis

Design reviews

Solid Edge

Siemens NX

AutoCAD

Leadership

Tools

Solid Edge

Siemens NX

AutoCAD

Job description

Principal Mechanical Design Engineer

Certain Advantage is hiring for a Principal Mechanical Design Engineer based in theHuddersfieldarea. This role is on a permanent basis and is hybrid-based.

The Company

We're working with an engineering company specialising in solving complex engineering challenges across industries—from Power Generation, Rail and more.

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The Role

This role is for a Principal Mechanical Design Engineer—someone ambitious and ready to make an impact. You'll be results-oriented and driven to succeed. You'll be leading a small, experienced, and collaborative team, and be responsible for:

• Lead and line manage the team, coordinating workloads, resolving issues, and ensuring delivery against timescales, KPIs, and customer requirements.
• Lead complex, high-value projects, delivering innovative, technically advanced solutions and providing expert guidance.
• Drive quality in simulation deliverables and lead continuous improvement initiatives within the delivery stream.
• Manage non-conformance, implementing corrective actions and process improvements.
• Contribute to engineering strategy, best practices, and process development to enhance operational performance.
• Define and capture design requirements, ensuring clarity and alignment throughout delivery.
• Lead internal and external design reviews, securing client acceptance of designs.
• Provide expert technical support in mechanical engineering across projects

The Individual

We're looking for people who can show:

• Design of transmission systems, gears, and gearboxes
• Mechanical specifications, scopes of work, calculations, drawings, and schedules.
• Analysis of complex design issues, identifying root causes and implementing effective solutions.
• Iterate and refine designs through testing and analysis to ensure compliance with specifications.
• Manage and track design changes to existing products.
• Working knowledge of key design tools, including Solid Edge, Siemens NX, and AutoCAD.
• Confident in chairing design review meetings.

The Benefits

• Salary circa £70 000 per annum
• Training and Development
• Career progression