AddressMECHANICAL DESIGN ENGINEER
Located in Washington, Tyne & Wear
Permanent/Fulltime
Hours of Work 37.5hrs (8.00am to 4.15pm Monday to Thursday) & (8.00am to 3.00pm Friday)
Role Summary:
Responsible designing and drafting mechanical products and systems using solid works. Fully responsible for the change management and the whole product data management process. It is the role of the Design Engineer to support with technical validations of their designs by working with the manufacturing engineers. From time to time, it will be the responsibility of the Design Engineer to liaise directly with customers and suppliers to identify and introduce product improvements across all machines build at the site. An element of R&D will be required to drive innovative product improvements.
Responsibilities:
• Design, develop, verify, and maintain whole machine 3D models and modification to existing designs to keep in line with current legislation, continuous improvement, and cost reduction exercises.
• Provide technical expertise and guidance to other engineers, ensuring that solutions are technically fit for purpose, reliable, serviceable and meet appropriate legislation.
• Working with a team of people in the control of all cost, weight and product data structure for all current vehicles and new product programs
• Support of New Product Introduction and Engineering Change Management
• Apply DFM techniques in support of manufacturing products
• Manage own workload and set priorities
• Ensuring completion of final design documentation.
• Manage CAD data within the Solid works PDM environment
• Prepare drawings and diagrams for hydraulic devices and installations.
• Review and assist in the effective closeout of the live top 10 product improvements
• Collaborate with neighboring departments including manufacturing engineering, quality, operations and product support to support the successful introduction of your designs into production and the field
• Selection of appropriate materials and material treatments for safety critical steel fabrications and pinned joints.
• Structural calculations on safety critical steel structures to ensure compliance with worldwide standards.
• Support in the creation of technical construction files to provide evidence that MEWPS have been designed and type verified for compliance with EN280 and the machinery directive
• Design and Specify hydraulic drive and control systems for MEWPs.
• Conduct type approval tests and document detailed test records. Keep up to date with impending legislation changes and ensure timely introduction of design changes necessary to maintain compliance.
• Increasing the value of existing designs of machines by use of value analysis and value engineering techniques.
• Designing new machines and modifying the design of existing machines improve manufacturability in a lean manufacturing environment. Experience required: Essential:
• Experience of designing mechanical structures using welded fabricated steel members, cast members, and bushed and pinned joints.
• Experience of 3D modelling using Solidworks
• Experience of material selection for mechanical structures as above.
MECHANICAL DESIGN ENGINEER
• Experience of creating drawings from CAD within Solidworks
• Experience of preparing technical construction files for construction equipment
• Experience of working with Notified Bodies to achieve machinery directive compliance
• Experience of designing hydraulic control and drive systems.
Desirable:
• An understanding of Fatigue stresses and calculations on safety critical steel
• Experience of Value Engineering and Value Analysis techniques and application
• Experience of preparing safety device validations to ISO13849.
• Experience of using DFM and Lean Manufacturing.
• Experience with FEA analysis of steel structures
• Use of Solidworks simulation packages.
• Experience of working with electrical power and drive systems
• Experience of calculating limit states and proof competence of steel structures to BS EN13001-3-1, Rules for Design of Cranes
• Experience of calculating fatigue limit states of steel structures to BS EN13001-3-1,
Rules for Design for Cranes
• Experience of the worldwide road approval directives.
Key Competencies:
• Understanding of worldwide standards for material equivalents, the effects of various material compositions on structural performance and the effects of treatments on material specification and corrosion resistance.
• Understanding of design for manufacture principles for Lean Manufacturing.
• Understanding of structural calculations on load bearing steel members.
• Understanding of fatigue calculations on load bearing steel members.
• Understanding of the requirements of creating technical construction files (TCF’s).
• Understanding of the requirements for specifying hydraulic drive and control systems.
• Ability to read and understand hydraulic schematics.
• Understanding of the principles of machinery directive compliance.
• Basic level of electrical distribution and system design knowledge
• 3D modelling of welded fabrications and assemblies.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Organized & self-disciplined, autonomous worker.
Qualifications:
• Bachelors’ degree or equivalent in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Control Systems Engineering or related field
• Minimum of 5+ years’ experience in area of Mechanical or Electrical engineering
• PC literate and at ease with MS Office products.
