Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Qioptiq are looking for a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to deliver detailed mechanical designs for products and processes for internal and external customers as part of the Engineering Team.

Key Responsibilities:

Tooling, Equipment and Process Design, Development and improvement

• Based on design brief or customer requirement, produce concept designs of tooling and equipment
• Carry out detailed design (fully and minimally dimensioned drawings) for low-volume high precision tooling parts and assemblies
• Attend and/or chair tooling and equipment design reviews with stakeholders
• Generate structured BoMs for manufacture and MRP System
• Perform controlled engineering experiments to validate tooling design
• Support optimisation requirements for existing/legacy product portfolio
• Work with NPI engineering to identify new tooling and equipment opportunities to enhance performance
• Identify and meet all compliance requirements
• Identify & propose improvements to product design and build processes

Technical Support

• Provide support to NPI and production personnel.
• Liaise with vendors to optimize design viability where necessary
• Provide support to the Sales, Customer Support and Product Management functions in bid preparation

Essential requirements:

• Degree or equivalent in a mechanical engineering discipline
• Application of product lifecycle management (concept, prototype, production).
• Proficient in geometrical tolerances.
• Knowledge of design for manufacture principles.
• Ability to demonstrate inventive thinking and an innovative approach to problem solving, from top level concept to piece-part design.
• Understanding of manufacturing techniques appropriate to small batch production.
• Hands-on experience of 2D and 3D CAD systems and PDM.
• Good verbal and written communication skills and ability to demonstrate scientific literacy.
• Non-smoker/vaper.

This is a full time, permanent position with opportunity to work from home 1 day per week and flexible core office hours for the remaining 4 days per week. You must be a non-smoker/vaper and able to commute to Hamble in order to apply.

Carbon60, Lorien, SRG - the Impellam Group STEM Portfolio is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.