Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

• Design market leading products applying sound engineering practice in a timeframe consistent with the business objectives.
• Liaise with customers through the quotation and pre-production phases in order to understand customer need and provide class leading technology.
• Apply innovation to product design, optimising value added performance characteristics and functionality to gain competitive advantage.
• Interpret and apply relevant engineering standards, legislation, certification and customer compliance requirements.
• Compile design reports, stress calculations, tolerance stack-up analysis, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and other relevant design validation methodology.
• Apply significant specialist knowledge in technology, certification or industrial applications to New Product Development.
• Take leadership in design validation and qualification testing, including planning research and Research and Development (R&D) and sub-contracted resources.
• Drive concurrent engineering, applying appreciation for manufacturing methodology, process capability, assembly, testing methodology and inspection process capability.
• Co-ordinate project teams when appropriate to ensure the related small team of engineers efficiently release the pre-production project workload.
• Check, verify, and sign off work completed by Level 1,2 and 3 Design Engineers as appropriate, providing mentorship if required.
• Apply VAVE to product design, ensuring manufacturing costs are minimised and cost targets are achieved by working effectively with production engineers.
• Provide detailed instructions for manufacture, inspection and R&D testing within the New Product Development process.

• Mechanical Engineering Degree or equivalent qualification or experience.
• Knowledge of valve design technologies - relevant experience in materials, mechanics, engineering mathematics, magnetics, fluid power, corrosion, stress and thermodynamics.
• Knowledge of fluid power applications and circuit design, component selection, installation methods, performance interactions and control systems.
• In depth understanding of modern manufacturing methods, inspection and assembly techniques within a precision CNC engineering and electronics environment.
• Sound understanding of technical risk mitigation, design validation and qualification methodology.
• Proficient in engineering software as applicable, 2D and 3D CAD, FEA, CFD, Mathcad, MS Office, preferably using Autodesk platforms (AutoCAD, Inventor, Ansys)

• Experience with high pressure valve design for Nuclear, Oil and Gas, or Space and related certification, customer practices and regulations.

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