White label Recruitment are pleased to be working with an extremely reputable and market leading manufacturing company who have been established for over 100 years. Our exclusive client manufactures complex bespoke special purpose machinery and are based close to Blackburn. One of the greatest selling points of this business is their brilliant staff retention levels – most of the people at the business have been there for over 10 years, which is rather unheard of these days. Due to a growing order book, and the development of new products, the company is seeking a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join their busy and growing mechanical design department. Primary Responsibilities: Lead machinery design efforts from concept to completion. Involved in high-precision machinery design (vacuum chambers, conveying systems, hydraulics, pneumatics, carbon fibre processing). Must possess experience with high tolerance, high accuracy manufacturing, and pneumatic/hydraulic systems. Must be adaptable, with the ability to work in a "blank sheet of paper" environment. Benefits: £45-57k salary depending on experience 4 day working week (Monday to Thursday) 25 days holiday 8 bank holidays 38 hours per week – very flexible on working hours (some start as early as 6.30AM) Childcare vouchers Phone and Laptop provided Death in service benefit 3 x annual salary Health cash plan Salary sacrifice pension Skills & Experience: Essential experience: Minimum 10 years high precision machinery design experience (ideally roll-to-roll) Must have considerable experience with concept design Must be competent on CAD, ideally Autodesk Inventor (other CAD packages will be considered) Desired experience: Able to use 2D Autocad, Autodesk Inventor (or similar), Autodesk Vault for Inventor (or similar) Familiar with Nastran FEA analysis Pneumatics design Correct sizing of components to suit the design application Correct choice of controls Complete circuit diagrams Hydraulics systems familiarity Design of chilled water circuits Machine drive sizing of motors, gearboxes, belt and pulley assemblies Experience designing machinery in the following areas from concept: Laminating, coating, printing, web winding, web processing, packaging. The company is offering a positive and progressive career opportunity, where you will be exposed to all aspects of engineering, gaining very broad engineering skills, where all manufacturing is carried out onsite. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a great team who invest heavily in their employees Are you interested or do you know anyone who might be? We do offer high street vouchers for referred candidates who are successfully placed into roles Please send a copy of your up-to-date CV to Chloe Allport if you are interested in this position and I will call you to discuss in further detail if you are a match. Looking forward to hearing from you