Mechanical Engineer E1

Roles & Responsibilities

The roles and responsibilities of this role include:

• Taking part of the creative process that drives new concepts and innovations, with personal focus on first line support and resolving issues.
• Setting up and processing data in a CAD environment in an iterative process, following the team’s best practices while learning from past iterations.
• Running, verifying, and post processing testing data to understand system behaviour and properties, with the intent of learning as much as possible about a given challenge within a reasonable timeframe. These can be both physical, analytical and/or numerical.
• Focusing on proven hardware design methods and practices, component selection and wider system architectural decisions.
• Manage your own workload to support the team’s delivery, with focus on first line support and resolving issues, with support from your team as needed.
• Collaborate with a wider team of engineers of different backgrounds and expertise in order to understand all inputs and perform personal work in support of this.

This job description is a summary of the typical functions of the role, not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of possible role responsibilities, tasks and duties and is subject to review.

The responsibilities, tasks and duties of the job holder might differ from those outlined in the job description and other duties, as assigned, might form part of the job.

• Degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent
• Good knowledge of a CAD platform, design principles, assemblies
• Knowledge of general hardware design principles and best practices
• Experience using lab test equipment, test methods, setting up testing, best practices and validate results

Desirable

• FEA experience or background within solid mechanics, statics, fracture and fatigue
• Experience designing for additive manufacturing or and rapid prototyping techniques
• “Hands on” experience in workshop environment
• Knowledge in mechatronics