Mechanical Design Engineer

Are you a Mechanical Design Engineer? Time to level up! Take ownership of the design process on high specification projects to prestigious brand name clients? We're a leading designer of specialist, bespoke special purpose machinery and are looking to hire a Mechanical Design Engineer to provide full design services across large projects to the food and pharmaceutical sector from our site in Bedford. BASIC SALARY: Up to GBP55,000 BENEFITS: Annual bonus of 8% 25 days holiday rising with service Full access to company benefits package including healthcare and pension Hybrid role (3 days in / 2 days WFH) once up to speed. LOCATION: Bedford COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Kempston, Dunstable, Luton, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Kettering, Peterborough, Cambridge, Letchworth Garden City, St Neots, Huntingdon, Wellingboorugh, Thrapston, Stevenage, Leicester, Coventry, Daventry, Watford, Aylesbury, Oxford, Bury St. Edmunds, Harlow, Melton Mowbray, Banbury JOB DESCRIPTION:Mechanical Design Engineer, Design Engineer - Special Purpose Machinery, Industrial Capital Equipment Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you're responsible for the design of bespoke, heavily modified special purpose machinery, industrial capital equipment technology for the food and pharmaceutical sectors. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:Mechanical Design Engineer, Design Engineer - Special Purpose Machinery, Industrial Capital Equipment From an initial client brief, you'll design from scratch or modify existing designs to create bespoke packaging machinery solutions for customers across the food manufacturing and pharmaceutical sectors You'll stay on the project from initial consultation to completion - offering Mechanical Design support throughout. PERSON SPECIFICATION:Mechanical Design Engineer, Design Engineer - Special Purpose Machinery, Industrial Capital Equipment You're an experienced Mechanical Design Engineer, fluent with 2D and 3D CAD systems (we use SolidWorks but are open on other experience - AutoCAD, Creo, Inventor, Solid Edge etc.) You'll have a strong knowledge of mechanical engineering - pneumatics, hydraulics, and ideally vacuum systems in machinery, capital equipment, automation or special purpose machinery You will also need some knowledge or exposure to electrical engineering. Any appreciation of sheet metal and fabrication design would be a benefit THE COMPANY: Established over 50 years ago, we're a leading design and manufacturer of bespoke cutting and sealing special purpose machinery, capital equipment or packaging machinery for the food and pharmaceutical manufacturing customers across the UK and beyond. Clients include multinational, billion pound, high profile brand names - where we are a trusted design partner. INTERESTED? Please click apply. You will receive an acknowledgement of your application. Please Note: Wallace Hind Selection have been chosen as the retained recruitment partner of our client and therefore any direct applications to our client from candidates or agencies will be forwarded on to us direct. REF: SP17633, Wallace Hind Selection