Senior Mechanical Engineer
Location: Croydon
Salary: GBP60,000 to GBP70,000 + Bonus + Pension + Life Assurance + Private Health Care + Dental Health Scheme + Cycle To Work Scheme
Working Hours: Monday Thursday, 8:30am to 16:30pm, Friday 8:30am to 15:30pm. 36.5–hour working week.
Role Overview:
Senior Mechanical Engineer required by a well–established manufacturer. In this role, you will manage the engineering team on a day–to–day basis, in relation to workload and engineers workshop activity.
This role sits between the Head of Engineering and the Engineering team for technical purposes to provide an additional layer of engineering and technical knowledge, experience, and assurance. As well as your own engineering tasks, this role will manage tasks of the Engineering team and review the outputs from the engineering team, prior to approval by the Head of Engineering.
This role contributes to team development and efficiency, ensuring that the company meets or exceeds customer requirements, enabling delivery of engineered products and services according to quality, cost, safety, and timeliness to achieve targets and standards.
Responsibilities:
1. Manage the engineering team on a day-to-day basis, in relation to workload and engineers workshop activity.
2. Have mechanical engineering experience related to component and system failure analysis.
3. Support the business from a hands-on engineering perspective, including overseeing condition assessments, preparation for FAIs, warranty claim investigation, problem solving, creating method statements, creating component overhaul and reclamation instructions, test procedures, and support with material analysis and comparisons.
4. Assist in identifying training requirements, ensuring the team continues their development in general engineering, product knowledge, safety, confidence, attitudes, processes, skills, and standards.
5. Assist purchasing and quality with the approval of new supplier selection and assessment.
6. Improve, develop, implement, and manage engineering processes in safety-critical environments.
7. Understand and work within a range of requirements including quality standards applicable to mechanical and rail engineering systems.
8. Deputise for the Head of Engineering in their absence.
Qualifications:
Experienced Senior Mechanical Engineer with a minimum of an HNC/HND qualification (or equivalent) in a mechanically biased engineering discipline.
Experience in managing an engineering team with a balance of general engineering, reverse engineering, unit testing, problem solving, understanding technical processes, report writing, and review for technical investigations.
Knowledge of various industries ranging from heavy engineering, rail, marine, power generation, and oil & gas sectors.
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