Senior Machinery Design Engineer Required in Blackburn - 4 day week!
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! Additionally, they are offering a 4 day week.
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 all aspects of design for machines from concept to detail design, specifically high-precision machinery (vacuum chambers, 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.
* Generate clear and unambiguous specification/scope and ensure compliance with contractual obligations.
* Facilitate liaison between sales, engineering and production and coordinate regular project reviews.
* Design in accordance with Machinery Directive.
* Undertake Risk Assessments and FMEA
Benefits:
* Circa £50k salary depending on level of experience
* 4 day working week (Monday to Thursday)!
* 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays
* 38 hours per week onsite – 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 7 years bespoke machinery design experience
* Must have experience designing precision machined components to Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
* Must have considerable experience with taking a design from a concept to set of completed drawings and BOM
* 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)
* Design for Manufacture and Design for assembly
* Design bespoke machine and/or configurable produce
* Responsibility for issuing BOM for bespoke machines
* Familiar with FEA analysis (preferably Nastran)
* Pneumatics and Hydraulics design
* Correct sizing of components to suit the design application
* Working closely with the electrical teams to generating equipment lists and determining the best cable routing
* Machine drive sizing of motors, gearboxes, belt and pulley assemblies
* Experience designing machinery in the following areas: Laminating, coating, printing, web winding, web processing, packaging, gear box design, aerospace.
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!
Looking forward to hearing from you.