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    Development Engineer - Daventry, United Kingdom - Probe UK

    Probe UK
    Probe UK Daventry, United Kingdom

    4 days ago

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    Full time Manufacturing / Mechanical
    Description

    The Company

    For over 60 years, this business has been constantly evolving their product portfolio to meet the demands and ever-changing needs for some of the world's largest industries. From the design of their first ever product, the business has sustained manufacturing excellence, setting the industry standard.

    Today they operate from a purpose built, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Northampton, where they routinely design and develop system solutions for bespoke applications.

    Due to an increasing volume of sales they now need to expand and strengthen their Engineering department.

    Development Engineer Package, Benefits and Hours

  • Salary £40,000 - £45,000
  • 37 hours per week; Monday to Thursday 8:30am – 17:15pm, Fridays 8:30am – 12:30pm
  • 25 days holiday, plus statutory
  • 10% employer pension, 4% from employee
  • Excellent contractual benefits package to include: death in service, income protection benefits and health insurance, together with a non-contractual annual profit share bonus
  • Commutable From: Northampton, Long Buckby, Leicester, Coventry, Milton Keynes, Rugby, Banbury

    Role Overview

    The Development Engineer will assist Business Development to provide technical solutions to customer enquiries and study, research and develop ideas for new products and methods used to make them.

    You will be working on a wide range of high-speed rotating machinery, couplings and test rigs of bespoke design that must be functional, reliable, easy and safe to use, including modifying existing products or processes to increase efficiency or improve performance.

    Development Engineer Candidate Key Requirements

  • Experience or knowledge of high-speed rotating machinery / rotordynamics or similar would be highly advantageous.
  • Mechanical Engineering Degree with Aerospace/Automotive/Energy/Oil & Gas background together with 3 to 5 years of demonstrable experience in a similar role.
  • Working knowledge and experience of CAD & PDM (preferably SolidWorks) and FEA tools (preferably ANSYS Workbench and/or SolidWorks Simulation).
  • Ability to create and interpret engineering drawings with GD&T.
  • Abley to perform hand calculations for preliminary design, sizing, and stress assessment of static and rotating components.
  • Material selection ability and knowledge of conventional manufacturing processes.
  • Good understanding of Applied Mechanics, Strength of Materials, Metal Fatigue, Rotordynamics, and Vibrations along with a basic understanding of heat transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics.
  • Key Responsibilities (but not limited to)

  • The Development Engineer will support the Chief Engineer in providing timely response to new application and product enquiries for driveline components (couplings, torquemeters, spindles etc.) and turnkey test rigs for testing high-speed rotating machines such as e-motors, generators, aero engines, gearboxes, turbines, compressors, pumps, turbochargers etc.
  • Produce innovative designs/ideas and create workable and cost-effective solutions.
  • Assist in product costing and preparation of technical and commercial proposals.
  • Assist in new product development and product improvement activities including brainstorming, design, analysis, supplier selection and testing, creating 3D CAD conceptual designs and 2D drawings.
  • Collaborate with manufacturing, assembly and testing to build in-house R&D test rigs for new product development.
  • The ability to conduct test schedules, document the results and present these findings clearly.
  • Please Note: Candidates must have the right to live and work in the UK.

    Our aim is to help you secure the best possible future for yourself & this is a totally FREE service to all our Candidates.

    If you believe that your skills and experience match what we are looking for please call me or APPLY and I will be in touch.

    Should you want to learn more about any of our DESIGN, R&D & FEA vacancies, or should you just want to discuss your particular needs, then please do not hesitate to contact me to have an informal, confidential chat.

    Probe Technical Recruitment, providing Design R&D & FEA Recruitment Support since 1994



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