£40000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

Mechanical Design Engineer

Mechanical Design Engineer

Cambridge Area

Commutable from Cambridge, Bedford, St. Neots, Huntingdon, Sandy, Royston, Hitchin

£40,000 – £45,000

Our client is a leading design and manufacturer of full turnkey projects for food processing & packaging machinery. With a reputation for product quality which is second to none and industry leading standards. They are looking for a Mechanical Design Engineer to join their expanding team.

Role & Responsibilities:

Working within a team of design engineers, designing a comprehensive range of food processing and packaging machinery for manufacture
Create designs using Autodesk Inventor & Solidworks design software packages
Carry out concept designs of machinery & systems
Deal directly with suppliers to obtain prices & delivery times
Create BOM’s, price reviews and liaise with project engineers throughout design process
Work on own initiative and as part of a team daily

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

Must have experience of conducting design work for food processing & packaging machinery
Ideally degree qualified or able to show a natural progression route
An experienced mechanical design engineer
Beneficial to be apprentice served, with shop floor machining & fabrication experience
Working knowledge of steam systems, fluid systems, pumps, pneumatics, stress calculations, sheet metal development and sizing of motor/gearboxes for applications
Must be able to use Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks and AutoCAD design packages
Flexible to travel to meet with customers/clients when needed in UK and sometimes overseas
Strong communicator – dealing with customers, project engineers and shop floor personnel
A proactive, enthusiastic and driven character
Will not consider relocators – must live commutable to the Cambridge area

Job Reference No: SE23267 / 610

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