Shape the future of interconnect technology in aerospace and defence as a Senior Design Engineer.
Join a global leader in interconnect solutions, with over 50 years of innovation and advanced engineering at its core, offering exciting opportunities to deliver new products from concept to supply.
You will play a key role in the development and optimisation of cutting-edge products for critical applications and delivering commercial interconnect solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Mentor junior engineers and provide guidance on best practices in mechanical design, material selection, and testing methods.
2. Lead design reviews and collaborate with cross-functional teams on complex engineering challenges.
3. Create quotes for NPI and report on progress, including component cost, labour, overhead, plating, and NRE.
4. Maintain responsibility for configuration control of drawings, manufacturing documentation, and ERP processes.
Requirements:
1. Extensive experience in mechanical engineering, with a focus on new product development in a customer-facing role.
2. Hands-on CAD experience creating models and drawings to British standards (e.g., BS standards), with consideration for design for manufacturing, tolerances, and machining.
3. Strong understanding of project management methodologies, tools, and techniques.
4. Experience working across the NPI lifecycle from concept through to delivery.
Key Information:
* Role: Senior Mechanical Design/Development Engineer
* Salary: circa £50,000
* Location: Whitstable, Kent (On-Site)
* Eligibility: Right to work in the UK (no sponsorship required)
Benefits:
* Group personal pension plan
* Life assurance
* Employee assistance programme
* Company sick pay
* Cycle to work scheme
* Subsidised restaurant facility
* Free onsite parking
Key Skills:
Mechanical engineering, NPI, CAD, DfM, project management, whole lifecycle, customer-facing, mentoring
Bring your mechanical design skills to the forefront of innovation—apply now!
Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days, please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future, and we shall assess your suitability at that time.
This is a permanent position.
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