Senior Engineer

SENIOR ENGINEER

MARINE INDUSTRY

WINSFORD AREA

MON-FRI DAYS

£50,000-£62,000

Flexible and Hybrid working, Salary and role progression, 33 Days Holiday, 4x Life Assurance

An exceptional opportunity for a Senior Engineer with experience on Design & Projects to join a fast-growing supplier of the defence industry.

This opportunity offers the change to work for a family feel brand with exciting plans and projects for the future within the defence industry. With a consistent order book and contracts on a global scale, this opportunity will appeal to a candidate looking for job security and a technical challenge.

Role Description

• Contribute to winning customer proposals, consisting of technical descriptions, associated costs, and schedule requirements to successfully deliver projects.
• Improve planned machine designs to meet customer requirements by researching commercially available hardware components and sub-assemblies.
• Conceptualising, designing, and modelling machines/ systems that meets customer specifications.
• Reviewing designs and applications to determine feasibility, refining the design as it evolves.
• Produces detailed design drawings for system procurement, fabrication, and assembly.
• Works on an integrated team to design products and systems that interface machine hardware, controls, and software as required.
• Supporting fabrication and installation activities, ensuring products and systems conform to engineering design and customer specifications.
• Writing engineering documentation that support the design verification, installation and maintenance of the products and systems.
• Commitment to team success during the full process from design, procurement, assembly, commissioning, checkout, factory acceptance, and customer on-site acceptance.

Skills and Qualifications

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
• Experience that demonstrates mastery of fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering
• Minimum 5 years mechanical design experience- Desirable experience with senior/ project management responsibilities
• Experienced user of SolidWorks CAD software
• Experienced in the use of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software
• Experience in the selection of engineering materials, preferably for marine environments.
• Proficient in the production of mechanical engineering calculations. Ability to utilise MathCAD preferred.
• Knowledge of mechanical engineering fabrication methods including sheet metal forming, welding and machining.
• Experience with Defence / Marine / Oil & Gas / Nuclear or other high-risk industry regulations
• Desired understanding of electrical \ control system packaging
• Desired Engineering chartership (or working towards)

Company Information

As a business our client is a market leading manufacturing company with a strong presence on both a UK and global scale. With a growing portfolio of clients and plans to expand even further this role provides a stable and secure opportunity in the present economic market.

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