DESIGN ENGINEER
Location: Wakefield
Type of role: Permanent
Salary: £40,000-£50,000/annum (depends on experience)
JOB PURPOSE
Our client is a hydraulic system and component supplier to the UK steelwork industry and machine tool manufacturers.
The role of Design Engineer will involve design and build of hydraulic projects, working with client specifications from the design stage through manufacture, installation and presentation of technical documentation. Taking a conceptual customer specification and developing it into a working hydraulic schematic, specifying and selecting products to create bills of materials. Liaising with sales and production team to produce high quality hydraulic power units and associated hydraulic equipment. Our client operates across a number of industry sectors, e.g. Flood Defence, Energy & Renewables, Oil &Gas, Machine Tool, Food Processing, Steel Production.
Key Responsibilities
Design of bespoke hydraulic systems and equipment, typically comprising; HPUs, actuators, accumulators and manifolds.
Understanding of the fundamentals of hydraulics; pumps, valves, actuators and their application
Use of Engineering Principal such as Mechanical & Structural constraints, Geometric Tolerance and Material Selection
Understanding of Project Management
Knowledge of Electrohydraulic / Electromechanical Systems and how to implement
Development of designs to satisfy technical specifications ...