The Role - Mechanical Design Engineer

As a successful candidate you will form part of a multi-disciplinary design team that is tasked with providing the processes and equipment that meet customer requirements, on time, to specification and within budget.

Responsibilities

• Take full responsibility for the detailed design of process plant elements within your remit.
• To provide detailed design analysis from first principles, translate those designs into 3D CAD models, generate bills of material and create manufacturing drawings to supply to our own in-house manufacturing departments.
• Can identify, analyse and resolve engineering problems but equally be ready to recognise the need for, and invoke, support from senior colleagues.
• You will interact with colleagues at all levels in the business, together with suppliers and customers.

Essential Experience required for this role

• Experience in creating and maintaining CAD models and files (AutoCAD Inventor)
• Experience of working in a design role for manufacturing/engineering environment
• Be able to create and interpret engineering drawings to high standard.
• Higher national Diploma (minimum) in Mechanical Engineering.
• Experience in creating suitable working drawings for the following manufacturing departments.

o Machine Shop

o Press Shop

o Fabrication/Welding

Desirable Experience required for this role (Not essential)

• P&IDs and Plant and Equipment Specification
• Pressure Vessel design to PD5500/EN13445
• Some process knowledge would be an advantage

Salary

Competitive within Industry

The Company - Wykes Engineering Ltd

Based in Rushden, Northants, we are a leading edge engineering SME specialising in the manufacture of materials processing equipment and energy from food by-product power generation. As a highly innovative and progressive design and manufacturing company, we have our own in-house manufacturing facility as well as our own advanced anaerobic digestion plant and renewable energy power plant.

Founded over 40 years ago, our engineering innovation has always been a fundamental part of our business. This has helped us to establish ourselves as a major player in our key areas of expertise, namely:

• Design and manufacture of equipment for the food bi-products and renewable technologies
• Processing bio-mass into energy
• Renewable energy production

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Mechanical Design Engineer