Sheet Metal Design Engineer

The Opportunity:

• Work closely with the Technical Engineering Manager, design and development department taking products from conception to detailed engineering drawings for manufacture.
• Determine manufacturing methods for engineering designs accounting for both in – house and external manufacture capabilities.
• Ensure that tolerance analysis is carried out during the design process, allowing for ease of manufacture, product function and eliminating tolerance build up issues during product manufacture and assembly.
• Work with all departments involved in the NPD program, in particular, Development, Production Engineering & Purchasing, ensuring design for manufacture is implemented prior to product handover.
• Work with the Production Engineering department to optimise designs to reduce costs, increase efficiency and maintain product quality.
• Ensure Bill of Materials spreadsheets are generated during the design process enabling Production Engineering to generate product manufacturing costs.
• Ensure new product progress feedback sheets are filled out and kept up to date.

Preferred Skills:

• Minimum of 2 years experience working as a Mechanical Design Engineer.
• Either degree educated or a proven engineering background with a strong bias to mechanical engineering.
• Sheet metal manufacture experience and knowledge of sheet metal processes also essential.
• Demonstrated ability in product development from initial prototype to mass production.
• Proven experience of working with Solid Edge Solid Works.

Associated Benefits:

A competitive salary of up to £40000
Company Pension Scheme, 5% contributory
Salary Sacrifice scheme.

Working Hours:
8.30-5 Monday to Friday

Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an Employment Agency for this vacancy.