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We are now recruiting for a Mechanical Design/Hardware Engineer with extensive experience within the defence and electronics industries, to join our client, a global engineering and construction contractor based at their site in Dorset. This is a full time contract role with an anticipated duration of c6 months.
Responsibilities will include:
- Design and development of packaging & mounting arrangements for COTS items.
- Design of electro-mechanical assemblies.
- Producing part & GA drawings.
- Peer reviews.
- Designing for manufacture review.
- Routing cables in 3D CAD.
- Producing cable/harness assemblies and drawings.
Skills & Experience required:
- Qualification in mechanical engineering.
- A minimum of 2 years of experience as a mechanical design engineer.
- Proficiency with 3D CAD packages such as Siemens NX or Solidworks.
- Sound knowledge of design and engineering principles and best practices.
- Experience of designing sheet metal, machined parts and assemblies.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
- Experience with cable routing and management.
- Attentive to detail and critically minded.
Desirable Technical Requirements
- A basic understanding of electronics.
- FEA, CFD simulation experience.
- Experience with designing for EMC compliance
- Experience with designing for military usage.
Full Job Description available upon request
Job Details:
Start date: ASAP
Contract duration: c6 months (may be extended)
Location: Dorset
Working hours: 37 hrs per week - 3 days office based, 2 days remote working.
Rate: c. £50 p/h PAYE - role has been deemed to be inside IR35.
Security Clearance will be required.
