Senior Mechanical Design Engineer £47,000 33 days holiday (inc BH) Day shift with a lunch time finish on a Friday. Our SME manufacturing client based in Ashton are looking for a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join their business in a permanent capacity. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in electro-mechanical product development and support.This is an active mechanical design role within a team, sustaining existing products and developing new concepts and ideas for customer quotations and internal product development. The Senior Mechanical Design Engineer will interface and cooperate with sales, materials/ procurement, manufacturing and relevant qualification in mechanical engineering and demonstrable practical experience of over 5 years, with a track record of successful product designs are essential. All products are inherently electro-mechanical so you will need a good appreciation of mechanical and electrical design principals will be necessary. Experience in lighting or road/ rail electromechanical products design would be desirable. Main duties of the Senior Mechanical Design Engineer are: Coordinate with the Engineering Manager on priorities according to business requirements Maintain existing products, designs and documentation when changes are required BOM maintenance Liaise with design and manufacturing partners Provide technical support and solutions to quality & production; problem solving and product diagnosis, as issue arise. Provide technical support and issue and solutions to quality & production; problem solving & fault diagnosis, as issue arise. Provide technical support and input for the sales team and customer enquiries Design & develop new products that are reliable and meet the required road and rail product standards. Prepare concepts, designs & prototypes for new products Liaise with 3rd party test partners to enable type testing of products Manage in-house testing & reporting e.g thermal test and functional test for development and fault finding. Review and implement customer standards in product designs and manufacturing processes. Skills and experience required for the Senior Mechanical Design Engineer: CAD 3D modelling & 2D detailing using Engineering software CREO, solidworks or similar - 3 years minimum Detail specification using GD&T tolerance studies Experienced at maintaining and creating configurable BOMS Technical documentation writing BOM & manufacturing software e.g.Syspro, SAP, SAGE etc Microsoft 365 office tools: Teams, Word, Excel, Outlook etc Manufacturing processes: Plastic Injection Moulding, Vacuum forming, metal diecasting fabrication and sheetmetal. Business processes and procedures, exposure to ISO 9001 document control systems Experience with electrical/ electromechanical devices or components e.g PCB's, LED's, Connectors, Power Supplies. Conversant & experienced with DFMEA studies Understanding and implementing industry standards & directives. Qualification in a relevant engineering discipline, 5 years work experience in Engineering environment. Experience with LED lighting or optics is desirable