Senior Mechanical Engineer – Embedded Instrumentation

Ralliant; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Ralliant in East Kilbride, Scotland seeks a Mechanical Staff Engineer to provide senior technical leadership in the development of monitoring, protection, recording, and analytics solutions for power generation, transmission, and distribution networks.

You will lead mechanical design across new product development, sustaining engineering, and platform enhancements, mentoring engineers and ensuring performance, reliability, manufacturability, safety, and cost targets while collaborating with

Qualifications

• Experience developing industrial or embedded hardware products from concept through production.
• Ability to lead complex investigations and make engineering decisions within multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience supporting product validation, environmental qualification, certification, and regulatory compliance activities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the mechanical design and development of complex embedded monitoring, sensing, recording, and industrial instrumentation products.
• Translate product and system requirements into robust mechanical solutions that meet performance, environmental, regulatory, manufacturing, reliability, and cost objectives.
• Design and review enclosures, assemblies, thermal management solutions, mounting systems, cable management, and industrial packaging components.
• Drive mechanical architecture implementation and subsystem design for complex products and product platforms.
• Perform engineering analysis including thermal, structural, vibration, shock, environmental, and tolerance studies to ensure product robustness.
• Lead technical investigations, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and failure analysis for development, manufacturing, and field issues.
• Evaluate design trade‑offs involving performance, reliability, manufacturability, serviceability, sustainability, product lifecycle, and commercial considerations.
• Support prototype development, testing, environmental qualification, production launch, and product validation activities.

Skills

Mechanical leadership

Mechanical design

Thermal management

Enclosures design

Education

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

SolidWorks

Creo

Inventor

FEA

Job description

Ralliant in East Kilbride, Scotland seeks a Mechanical Staff Engineer to provide senior technical leadership in the development of monitoring, protection, recording, and analytics solutions for power generation, transmission, and distribution networks.

You will lead mechanical design across new product development, sustaining engineering, and platform enhancements, mentoring engineers and ensuring performance, reliability, manufacturability, safety, and cost targets while collaborating with