Mechanical Design Engineer

Mechanical Design Engineer developing mechanical aspects for new and supporting existing Allied Universal Electronic Monitoring products. Contributing to all aspects of mechanical development, manufacturing and maintenance with a strong emphasis on continuous improvement with the QMS team and supporting the NPI process.

Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities

• Work in team to develop excellent, robust and easy to use new products.
• Ensure that all Mechanical designs and calculations are fully documented and archived.
• Support efforts that ensure new products quickly reach the market.
• Support and drive the NPI processes to ensure a full and complete product is released Work towards gaining a strong understanding of customer requirements, to ensure that products will be best in class.
• Develop new IP and ensure that it can be protected by following IP documentation and confidentiality processes.
• Maintain up to date understanding of the technology sectors applicable to the company’s current and future products.
• Ensure that all designs are fully type approved to ensure that they meet all aspects of functionality and performance defined in the Requirement Specifications.
• Provide technical support to operations and production teams to ensure product designs are understood and can be correctly manufactured and maintained.
• Providing brief weekly reports on task progress with regularly updated estimates of time elapsed and engineering effort required to complete assigned project tasks.

Key Competencies

• Mechanical Design Engineering
• Delivering performance managing professionally
• Customer thinking
• Awareness of the market environment
• Sharing & Co-operating
• Driving change

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Mechanical  Design
• Design & manufacture of plastic parts
• BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering or related
• Minimum  of 2 years working in a Product Design environment
• Solidworks experience
• Very good communication skills

Desirable

• Right first time mentality
• Technical experience in a relevant field
• FMEA experience

If you feel you have the level of experience and skills we are looking for and are excited about our role then please send across your CV. Based on the nature of our business successful candidates are required to undertake a screening and vetting process. You will be required to have the right to work in the UK and have been resident in the UK for 5 years.