CAD Designer - Mechanical Engineering

CAD Designer - Mechanical Engineering

Our well established, successful, and constantly developing client are currently looking for an CAD Designer to join their friendly team in Stroud, Gloucestershire on a full-time, permanent basis.

Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum (DOE) + benefits including;

- Free parking

- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

- Company bonus schemes

- Dental, optical etc scheme

- Pension: 5% employee and 7% employer

- Further progression/development opportunities

- Early Friday finish

+ more

Hours: 37.5h pw: Monday – Friday 8am – 4:30pm (early finish Fridays at 1:30pm!) – fully based onsite.

This is a great opportunity to join a successful, dynamic engineering company that has a low turnover of staff, lots of recent investment and who can offer excellent career progression if desired.  Within this business, you will be offered ongoing support in your role, and will be part of a friendly team with further learning opportunities.

The CAD Designer will lead the creation of new products by establishing robust mechanical designs, translating customer requirements into well engineered, manufacturable solutions.  You will have ownership of the full design cycle, from concept development and detailed CAD through to prototyping, validation testing, and production release.

Essential skills are a strong focus on delivering designs on time, within agreed cost targets, and aligned to quality and performance expectations.  Success in this role requires balancing innovation with practicality, ensuring that every design decision supports product cost requirements, schedule commitments, and specification compliance.

Key Duties

- Interpret customer requirements and specifications to develop engineered product designs.

- Produce detailed 3D CAD designs for new products.

- Create 3D models, engineering drawings and Bills of Materials (BOMs).

- Solve mechanical engineering problems using a structured approach.

- Perform and document engineering calculations.

- Conduct FEA analysis where required.

- Analyse test data and verify compliance with specifications.

- Prepare engineering reports and technical documentation.

- Ensure designs comply with relevant codes, standards and customer requirements (API, ISO, PED, ASME VIII).

- Apply Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFM/DFA) principles.

- Support continuous improvement of products and processes.

- Check and approve drawings and BOMs.

- Support new product introduction into production.

- Contribute to engineering strategy, policies and procedures.

- Mentor and support junior engineers.

- Attend internal and customer meetings, providing technical guidance as required.

- Deputise for the Principal Engineer when required.

- Undertake additional engineering duties as directed by the Product Design Manager.

- Occasional business travel.

Key Attributes

- 3D CAD Design experience for manufacture and assembly

- Experience of designing high pressure equipment to industry standards.

- Experienced in the use of Finite Element Analysis.

- An understanding of materials and their applications, metals in particular.

- Familiarity in the use of Geometrical Design and Tolerancing (GD&T).

- Able to produce BOMs.