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Mechanical Design Engineer – Special Purpose Machinery - Machine Tooling Design

Halifax

£40,000 to £45,000 plus benefits

Melbreck Technical is working with one of the UK’s leading machine refurbishment and retrofit specialists. They provide a range of services around special purpose machinery and machine tooling including re-engineering, re-manufacture and retrofit to a wide range of industries across the world.

This is a small business and team, and they are looking for a design engineer to join them.

Mechanical Design Engineer - Role Overview:

In the role of mechanical design engineer, you will be creating a wide variety of designs for machine tools. The role will involve:

  • Creating final assembly, machine drawings and modifying and improving existing design using Autodesk Inventor.

  • Ensuring designs are safe to build and cost effective

  • Providing technical support to the shopfloor and site installation teams

  • Running your own projects with minimal supervision

  • Generating parts lists / BOMs

  • Liaising with customers, suppliers, and internal departments to ensure information is free and flowing

    Mechanical Design Engineer – Candidate Requirements:

    To be successful in the Mechanical Design role you will need to possess the experience, aptitude and ability to make the most of the position. You must be willing to work within a small business and team and take responsibility for the design function in the business.

    We are looking for the knowledge and experience of the following:

  • Using 3D software (Inventor or similar) to draw component details, assemblies and machine parts for manufacturing

  • Understanding of special purpose machinery and machine tooling (CNC Machine tools)

  • Reading and understanding 2D drawings

  • Knowledge of machinery design

  • Managing projects from initial concept to completion

  • Liaising with shopfloor fitting staff

    Any knowledge and experience of shopfloor working and manufacturing processes would be beneficial, as would any knowledge of hydraulics, pneumatics and any electrical knowledge.

    Please note that this role does involve working on projects with customers in the defence and aerospace industries, and as such will require the person in the role to gain security clearance. As such, please only apply if you are a UK National.

    Mechanical Design Engineer – What you get:

  • A good salary (£40,000 - £45,000+) + benefits

  • The opportunity to work on interesting and varied machinery and machine tool design projects

  • The opportunity to work within a small team in a business that is a market leader

  • A high level of job satisfaction, control and autonomy within an established, supportive team.

    Looking to get stuck into a design engineer role where you can really make a difference? Then APPLY NOW

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