Job Description
Job Title: Mechanical Engineer – Automation & Product Design
Location: Reading
Salary: Circa £50,000 + Benefits
Employment Type: Full-Time | Permanent
🔧 Are you a Mechanical Engineer passionate about automation, robotics, and designing real-world systems that make a tangible impact? I’m working with a growing tech company developing next-generation production technology that’s helping revolutionise sustainable agriculture.
This is a hands-on, design-focused role where you’ll contribute to the scale-up of precision automation systems for high-throughput manufacturing. You’ll join a small, agile engineering team tackling novel mechanical design challenges - everything from intricate material handling to seamless integration with electronics and software.
What You’ll Be Doing:
1. Design and develop automation components and mechanisms for handling high-volume small objects
2. Integrate mechanical systems with multidisciplinary teams across software, electronics, and controls
3. Rapidly prototype, test, iterate and improve hardware solutions in a live production setting
4. Troubleshoot and optimise existing systems to ensure performance, uptime, and ease of assembly
5. Help refine design processes, tools, and metho...