Mechanical Design Engineer developing mechanical aspects for new and supporting existing Allied Universal Electronic Monitoring products. Contributing to all aspects of mechanical development, manufacturing and maintenance with a strong emphasis on continuous improvement with the QMS team and supporting the NPI process.
Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities
* Work in team to develop excellent, robust and easy to use new products.
* Ensure that all Mechanical designs and calculations are fully documented and archived.
* Support efforts that ensure new products quickly reach the market.
* Support and drive the NPI processes to ensure a full and complete product is released Work towards gaining a strong understanding of customer requirements, to ensure that products will be best in class.
* Develop new IP and ensure that it can be protected by following IP documentation and confidentiality processes.
* Maintain up to date understanding of the technology sectors applicable to the company’s current and future products.
* Ensure that all designs are fully type approved to ensure that they meet all aspects of functionality and performance defined in the Requirement Specifications.
* Provide technical support to operations and production teams to ensure product designs are understood and can be correctly manufactured and maintained.
* Providing brief weekly reports on task progress with regularly updated estimates of time elapsed and engineering effort required to complete assigned project tasks.
Key Competencies
* Mechanical Design Engineering
* Delivering performance managing professionally
* Customer thinking
* Awareness of the market environment
* Sharing & Co-operating
* Driving change
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
* Mechanical Design
* Design & manufacture of plastic parts
* BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering or related
* Minimum of 2 years working in a Product Design environment
* Solidworks experience
* Very good communication skills
Desirable
* Right first time mentality
* Technical experience in a relevant field
* FMEA experience