Senior Mechanical Engineer
SoCode Limited
The role is a genuinely hands-on one. You'll pick up sizeable pieces of design work and see them all the way through — early concepts, detailed design, prototype builds, testing and eventually release into production. Day to day you'll be working closely with electronics, software, systems, manufacturing and quality colleagues on a product where the mechanical detail really matters. Hybrid working is on offer, with three days a week expected on site.
What will you be doing?
- Running mechanical design activity on new products and product improvements, working within a regulated design process
- Holding end-to-end responsibility for your own work packages rather than picking up isolated tasks
- Modelling parts and assemblies in SolidWorks, using surfacing where the geometry calls for it
- Designing for real-world manufacture across machined, sheet metal and moulded components
- Getting hands on with prototypes and test rigs, then using what you learn to improve the design
- Producing and reviewing drawings and configuration documentation to a high standard
- Writing up technical reports to support verification activity and design reviews
- Digging into product problems, working out what's actually causing them, and putting fixes in place
- Sharing knowledge with less experienced engineers and acting as a technical sounding board
- Helping shape the team's tools, standards and ways of working as the department grows
- A background in mechanical design where products you've worked on have made it into production
- Confident SolidWorks user, comfortable with both solid and surface modelling
- Good grasp of design for manufacture across machining, sheet metal and injection moulding
- Able to size and justify designs from first principles rather than relying on iteration alone
- Used to owning technically complex work and being accountable for the outcome
- Pragmatic decision-maker who can weigh up cost, quality, manufacturability and timescales
- Strong on drawings — creating them, checking them and interpreting other people's
- Comfortable writing technical documentation such as reports and design review material
- Educated to degree level in Mechanical Engineering or something closely related
- Time spent in a regulated industry, ideally medical devices under ISO 13485 and/or IEC 60601
- Involvement in transferring designs into low volume manufacture
- Familiarity with BS 8888, and ideally GD&T to ISO 1101
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