Development Engineer

Development Engineer

To build and functionally develop feed systems and special purpose machinery within agreed timeframes to design specification.

Development Engineer

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Mechanically assemble machinery to general arrangement drawings.
• Install and plumb pneumatic elements of machinery.
• Support electrical engineers with fitting of cable tray, feeding cables etc, where required.
• To work to communicated timeframes against project milestones.
• Participate in design reviews when requested to feedback thoughts and concerns to design prior to build.
• Take machines beyond the point of power on, through initial running and develop them into a fully functioning piece of production equipment in line with works order requirements.
• Suggest any potential modifications to machine construction to improve/achieve required performance.
• Detail any part modifications undertaken to feed back into the design change process.
• Attend customer site for installation, commissioning and/or service visits when required.
• To adhere to the Quality Management System and associated policies, processes and procedures.

Skills

• Comfortable with and confident in the use of hand and power tools.
• The ability to build industrial machinery to engineering drawings.
• The ability to develop industrial machinery from power on to final test.
• The ability to read engineering drawings, general arrangement drawings and pneumatic schematics, and to build to these drawings.
• An awareness of common electrical componentry used on industrial machinery, as well as its functionality.
• Knowledge of the Automation sector.

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