Job Description
Are you looking for a Senior/Principal Mechanical Design Engineer job in the North East?
If so, my client has many exciting projects and needs an experienced Senior/Principal Mechanical Design Engineer to join their R&D team.
The business is well-established and highly profitable employing about 400 people and turning over c£100 million. They offer very flexible hybrid working arrangements as well.
They are investing very heavily in R&D/Product Development and have lots of exciting projects and plans for the coming years.
They design and manufacture a range of complex electro-mechanical products and are investing heavily in R&D/product design.
Skills/Responsibilities of the Senior/Principal Mechanical Design Engineer will include:
* Experienced Mechanical Design Engineer with good knowledge of designing moving parts/mechanisms. Not just enclosure design for electronics.
* Experience in taking design projects from concept to manufacture. Not just re-working existing products/designs.
* Some experience of innovation/creativity in product design. In this role, you will be working on design projects for products that the company has never designed before.
* Proficient with modern 3D CAD packages.
The mechanism/moving part design knowledge could take various forms: Servo/motors, rotating parts/machinery, actuators/actuation, special purpose machinery etc.
They have an R&D team of 20 design engineers covering the usual mechanical, software and electronics mix. They are open to the experience level of this person but are likely to go for someone with several years of commercial mechanical design experience.
This could be a Senior, Principal or Lead engineering role, so the salary band we’re searching in is quite wide at the £50k to £70k basic range + excellent benefits package.
This role is to join a newly created team within R&D/Engineering, so there are lots of opportunities to progress in this role into chief engineer or management roles depending on how you see your career developing.
This is a rare opportunity in this location.
If you have any specific questions about this Senior/Principal Mechanical Design Engineer vacancy, please call David on 01582 350052. To apply email; dphilpott@versorecruitment.com