Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

We are currently looking for a highly skilled Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join our Hemel Hempstead R&D team, bringing expertise in mechanical design and experience in packaging electronic and or scientific components for harsh environments. If you're experienced with advanced manufacturing methods and thrive in a dynamic, innovative environment, this role is for you. This is a hybrid role that requires site presence a minimum of 3 days a week. Due to the sensitive nature of the projects you will be working on, we would also need to put you through SC level clearance. This means, we can not consider applicants that require sponsorship now or in the future. Duties: The broad aim of the role is to plan, design and execute the mechanical design of high quality, high demand products sold into a regulated environment. Ensuring the products are safe, functional, and commercially viable. This will require the candidate to be able to:

• Generate concept designs for technology development projects.
+ Collaborate with scientists and engineers in the design, development and testing of experimental hardware. + Develop technical requirement specifications.
• Understand and interpret technical requirement specifications.
+ Generate concept designs to meet technical requirements specifications.
• Lead and support the industrial design process.
• Optimise design concepts to provide most cost-effective solution that will meet all specification requirements.
+ Use SolidWorks 3D CAD to create part models. + Design for excellence analysis.
• Specify and conduct verification and validation testing of design solutions, to ensure they meet the specification requirements.
+ Build & test of prototypes. + Environmental testing, including temperature / shock / vibration / ingress.
• Produce documentation to define the product design, enabling the cost-effective manufacture of the design.
+ Create Engineering Drawings to details all parts and assemblies (Technical Data Pack). + Generate Test Specifications for acceptance testing of manufactured product.
• Support the product design throughout its life, making continuous improvements to improve product value.
• Function as a team member on multi-functional project teams, across multiple projects.
• Active member of the Mechanical Engineering Department; developing and coaching the junior members of staff; and continually challenging and improving the departmental processes.
  
  Mechanical Engineering Degree / HNC (or equivalent). Accredited by a relevant professional body advantageous.
• Actively pursuing individual professional development.
• Minimum of five (5) years of design engineering experience, including experience in packaging electronic and scientific components to withstand harsh environments.
• Competent user of 3D CAD design tool, and associated product data management -advantageous SolidWorks.
• Familiar with manufacturing methods including; Plastic Injection moulding; Additive Layer Manufacturing; sheet metal design; and conventional machining.
• Highly desirable to have experience of analytical instrument design, particularly ion mobility spectrometry or mass spectrometry.
• Desirable to have experience of COMSOL Multiphysics, MATLAB, LabView.
• Understanding of thermal and fluid flow analysis.
• Knowledge of Military Standards would be beneficial but not essential.
• Aware of the gated engineering design process, including, technology development, industrial design, concept design, design for excellence, prototyping, test and evaluation, verification, and production.
• Awareness of business tools such as Enterprise resource planning (ERP) advantageous.
• Excellent team worker, with the ability to work with minimal supervision where required.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with confidence in dealing with a wide range of people, including suppliers, designers, and senior management.
• Excellent IT Skills, with knowledge of MS Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Adaptability to learn new IT skills essential.
  
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• Global leader: We impact critical systems every day with sites in 17 countries and six centers of research excellence. From pioneering to powering life-changing innovation, we're delivering threat detection and screening solutions to safeguard the world from threat
• Digital growth: A key part of our capability is the integration of digital technology across our business and our operations in more than 55 countries, will be critical to our continued success
• Exciting opportunities: Our growth is creating exciting opportunities to work with experts in physics, chemistry, electronics, mechanics, production, computer science, and AIML
• International environment: With some projects, work requires global collaboration and the potential to travel and grow with the business.