Mechanical Design Engineer

Platform Resourcing are currently working in partnership to find a Mechanical Design Engineer within a well-established engineering company based in Newport.

The successful candidate will plan and implement activities in order to meet targets for product realisation ensuring compliance with customer specifications. Initiate and develop feasible, cost effective and reliable mechanical designs from concept through to production.

Benefits package:

• Salary of up to �47,000
• Yearly salary appraisals, recognition for hard work
• Hours Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm
• Permanent role with progression opportunities
• Pension
• 20 days holiday plus 8 statutory days
• Free Parking

Duties and Responsibilities

• SolidWorks / Inventor - CAD
• From Conceptual sketches to the full detail of mechanical product or component design
• Fabrication drawings
• Bill of Materials for Project
• Experience and close cooperation with Fabrication-CNC Profile Cutter, Folding machines, Bending and welding
• Work experience with lifting equipment-operation, repair, improvement of design
• Strong hand calculation, sometimes I use my TI-Nspire hand calculator
• Projects with SolidWorks/Inventor respect all Chain Design Links: Proposal, Estimation-weight, surface-number of assemblies, Cost, Time manufacturing, Purchase Materials, Transport, Drawings, BOM, Installation onsite, Feed Back from Client
• Ensure compliance of technical activities to ISO9001
• Write/Review/Check and authorise technical documents
• Check/review all technical documents prior to distribution outside FPS
• FMEA analysis generation/review
• Partake in contract review meetings - with client
• Schedule engineering tasks to organise team members to ensure focus on prioritised tasks.
• Liaise with quality team

Essential Experience/ Qualifications:

• Qualified within a Mechanical Engineering discipline (NVQ Level 3/ HNC/ HND or degree level)
• Experience of working in a manufacturing/engineering discipline, preferably within a 'bespoke' mechanical engineering environment is compulsory
• Use of CAD/ SolidWorks
• Ability to create technical drawings
• Ability to confirm parts against drawing by measurement (Billing of Materials experience)
• Continuous improvement

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