Premier Technical Recruitment
Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Oxfordshire - to £36k plus benefits

Ref #: PTR08/405

Location: Oxfordshire

Description: Mechanical Design professional required to compliment an established Materials Handling and Automation team

Salary: to £36k plus benefits

Our client specialise in the design, development and implementation of automated warehouse and distribution solutions for supply throughout the UK and Europe, and as a result of an ongoing exercise to strengthen the Design Team, a number of new permanent positions have been created for experienced and highly capable Design Engineers to compliment the existing department, culminating in the need to recruit an experience Senior person to report directly to the Mechanical Design Manager.

 
The successful candidate will be tasked with the design of the mechanical aspects of material handling systems for a range of bespoke customer requirements, in line with a given specification and within cost and time scale constraints, and will lead the mechanical design aspects of projects, interpreting project layouts and specifications into final design layout and conveyor datalist, and providing system integration drawings and specifications when required.
 
Additionally, you will review, check and approve unit cycle times, system throughput, and general dimensional requirements and develop a detailed design and manufacturing programme, giving advance notice of materials required to the Purchase Department and allocating design tasks to project related workload. You will also undertake the review, checking and approval of project related documentation. (i.e drawings, calculations, datalists etc) and assist with the system risk assessment (and unit risk assessment where necessary) in line with statutory requirements.
 
To be considered for this exciting opportunity with a genuine market leader in their specialist field, you will be able to create detailed drawings and parts lists for equipment within scope of supply, specify details of any additional special conveyor elements or associated equipment and create an installation file to pass on information to the site supervisor and installation team, creating detailed Operating and Maintenance Instructions and provide spare parts lists as required, and liaising with systems sales and project engineers during various project phases as well as with project managers, customer and sub-contractors during order execution phase.
 
You will therefore ideally possess relevant qualifications in Mechanical Engineering and preferably be able to demonstrate previous experience in the materials handling industry and with at least 3 years experience in a similar role. Able to demonstrate Initiative, Results Orientation, Decision Making skills and the Ability to Analyse and Organise, you will be a Team Player with excellent communication skills and the ability to work under minimum supervision. Interested ? Then contact the Materials Handling Team on 01827 68400 or email your cv in the strictest confidence to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it for further details.
Last Updated ( Friday, 01 May 2009 )
 
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