Senior Design Engineer

Randstad are recruiting for a Senior Design Engineer for a client based in Bristol. They are a rapidly growing company that specialises in designing and manufacturing a variety of high pressure hydraulic products for the Automotive and Aerospace industries.

Essential requirements

• Degree level education in Mechanical Engineering or closely related subject
• At least 5 years of experience in a mechanical design role
• Experience of design processes and engineering principles
• Understanding of metallurgy and material science
• Understanding of machining processes and their relevance in mechanical design
• Experience with CAD and producing technical drawings
• Experience using FEA tools
• Understanding of wider system technology including electronics, software and control, and its impact on mechanical design
• High levels of personal accountability and ownership, to effectively deliver on challenging and ambitious targets
• Strong presentation (both of technical solutions and data) and reporting skills
• Ability to focus on detail to fully understand issues and drive improvement
• Experience leading other mechanical engineers within a project

Beneficial requirements

• Experience working to Automotive, Aerospace or Marine certification standards
• Experience of testing in a production environment
• Experience using CFD tools
• Experience with hydraulic machines e.g. Servo valves, pumps, actuators etc.
• Experience designing for additive manufacturing processes.
• Experience with designing electric motors

Key responsibilities

• Design and analysis of valves to fit customer applications
• Management of manufacturing documentation, including CAD, drawings, bill of materials and AM build files
• Finding and communicating with suppliers for prototype manufacture
• Communication with key stakeholders both internal and external
• Providing design support throughout manufacture, assembly, testing and new product introduction
• Where required provide the above capability to support other projects, such as suspension, brake by wire and flight controls
• Mentoring and technical direction on specific projects to more junior engineers
• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver world leading products

This is a full time permanent position with a salary of £45,000-£55,000 depending on experience, flexible start and finish times and a 9 day working fortnight, so you would have every other Friday off as well.

The role is fully on site and will predominantly be based at the head office in Central Bristol.

If you are interested, please make an application at your earliest convenience.

Randstad Technologies Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT & Engineering industries. Please note that due to a high level of applications, we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.