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. 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.
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.
Facilitate liaison between sales, engineering and production and coordinate regular project reviews.
Design in accordance with Machinery Directive.
Undertake Risk Assessments and FMEA
Up to £50k salary depending on level of experience
~4 day working week (Monday to Thursday)!
~38 hours per week onsite – very flexible on working hours (some start as early as 6.Childcare vouchers
~ Phone and Laptop provided
~ Health cash plan
~ Salary sacrifice pension
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)
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
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.