Senior Mechanical Engineer

Electus Recruitment Solutions
Silchester
1 week ago
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Lead the creation of complex design solutions for a variety of safety-critical projects in multiple highly regulated industries as a Senior Mechanical Engineer.This well-established engineering consultancy values its employees and aims to give everyone a voice to together to face their clients' problems head-on. This organisation understands the importance of work-life balance and offers flexible working with tailored benefits packages.You will deliver a wide variety of safety critical projects, ranging from niche consultancy to large, high-profile programmes.About the Role:• Lead the creation of optimal design solutions to address client requirements.• Produce substantiation calculations and justifications to demonstrate design performance against requirements.• Manage your projects' delivery against time, cost and quality requirements.About You:• Degree (or equivalent) in Mechanical Engineering or similar – Chartership would be a bonus. • Sound understanding of mechanical engineering principles and their application to varied projects and safety critical and highly regulated domains, such as nuclear, aerospace and defence. • Experience across the design lifecycle including undertaking requirements capture, concept generation, development and down-selection.• Familiarity with working to design codes and industry standards appropriate for a safety critical industry.Key Information:• Role: Senior Mechanical Engineer • Salary: £45,000–£60,000• Location: Silchester - Reading area• Hybrid: circa 3 days a week on-site per week • Eligibility: British Citizenship is required due to security clearance requirements Skills:Mechanical design, Autodesk Inventor, NX, substantiation calculations, safety critical industry, nuclear Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, incumbents of these positions are required to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to British Citizens. Applicants who meet this criteria will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting, if not already security cleared to a minimum SC level.Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time.This is a permanent position

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