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Innovations Engineer

JTH Recruitment Ltd
Posted 14 hours ago, valid for 14 days
Location

Peterborough, Cambridgeshire PE7 3HH, England

Contract type

Full Time

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  • We are seeking an Innovations Engineer for a prestigious engineering client located near Peterborough.
  • The ideal candidate should have a minimum of 3 years of industry experience in the food, pharmaceutical, chemical, or related process industries.
  • The position offers a competitive salary, a company car, and an attractive benefits package with ongoing training and development.
  • Candidates must possess at least an HNC/HND qualification in engineering, preferably at the degree level in Mechanical Engineering.
  • This role involves a mix of 80% office-based activities and 20% on-site work, including supplier visits and engineering simulations.

We are currently recruiting for a Innovations Engineer to work as an Innovation Engineer for a very reputable and prestigious engineering client based just outside of Peterborough. The Innovations Engineer will be mainly office based Mon-Fri. The ideal candidate maybe a project engineer or product engineer who has demonstrable experience of working with machinery, delivering projects to customers or products to the market.

The Innovations Engineer will have worked in the food, pharmaceutical or chemical or other related process industry. My client are offering a competitive basic salary, plus company car and a great benefits package with ongoing training and development.

The Role

  • The Mechanical Innovation Engineer will lead development projects from initial concept through to full product realisation / implementation.
  • Oversee validation testing required during the development process and summarise results in a technical report.
  • Identify development opportunities and find creative solutions to improve machinery
  • Build a full technical design folder for the machine including costings
  • Create marketing and other supporting documents to feed into sales processes
  • Assess and implement continuous improvement that may be fed into the process from our in house change management system
  • Work closely with and support other departments (Project Engineering, Supply Chain, Compliance, Design) and suppliers to improve existing designs with respect to manufacturability and assembly.

The successful candidate can expect a healthy split of 80% office-based activities and 20% on-site. They anticipate the role needing supplier visits, workshop testing, office-based simulations and engineering as well leadership of site-based validation, commissioning and testing. The split bias is likely to be variable depending on the given development, some tasks may focus more heavily on workshop and/or site testing in the validation process. Site works will include U.K and occasional international travel.

Candidate Attributes

  • Minimum HNC/HND qualification or equivalent in engineering, preferably Degree level or in Mechanical Engineering
  • Minimum 3 years industry experience (mechanical/process bias) Preferably from the food, pharmaceutical, chemical or other related process industry
  • Good understanding of machinery process and design including meeting EN and Machinery Directive compliance
  • Demonstrable hands-on engineering skillset coupled with a technical capability to understand the systems and processes
  • Ability to development opportunities and find creative solutions to improve machinery
  • Dynamic, enthusiastic & flexible approach with a willingness to travel
  • Excellent Commercial awareness
  • Excellent people skills and clear communicator
  • Computer literate with working knowledge of the following: -

o AutoCAD

o Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word

o Any relevant software (Solidworks, Pipe Flow Expert for example)

This position is based in Peterborough so candidates will need to live within commutable distance and must have the right to work in the UK our client are not offering any form of sponsorship

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.