Reporting to the Engineering Manager, the Mechanical Design Engineer will have the following main duties and responsibilities:

• Designing Company products from initial concept stage through to production in a professional and time efficient manner.
• Producing 3D CAD models and detail drawings to provide solutions in accordance with client requirements.
• Producing technical reports, detailing work completed and the products produced. This includes, but is not limited to, engineering calculations, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and CFD.
• Assisting in the development of company design systems, standards and procedures.
• Contributing development ideas for new and existing products.
• Working to tight deadlines, supporting work for proposals and projects.

Qualifications:

Essential:

• An Engineering Degree qualification in a Mechanical or Structural discipline. A Mechanical Engineering Degree qualification would be preferred.
• Alternatively, an HND qualification in a relevant Engineering discipline with a minimum of 5 years’ mechanical design engineering experience.

Desirable:

• Chartered Engineering status, or working towards.

Experience:

Essential:

• A minimum of 3 years’ design engineering experience within a fast-paced engineering design environment, preferably obtained within the Oil and Gas Industry.
• Previous experience of using FEA and 3D CAD software.

Desirable:

• 5 years’ plus mechanical engineering design experience.
• Experience with CFD.
• CFD experience using Ansys CFX.
• Thermal and mechanical FEA experience in Ansys.
• Autodesk Inventor and Meridian experience.
• Experience in Mathcad.
• Experience of designing buoyancy products.