Senior Mechanical Engineer

Seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer in Warwickshire to lead innovative projects in high-speed compressors, power electronics enclosures, and advanced cooling systems. With over a decade of experience and proficiency in 3D CAD, you'll drive concept-to-production development while ensuring automotive compliance. Join a global leader in electro-mechanical innovation and apply today.
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The Role
Reporting to the Mechanical Team Leader and working within the multi-disciplinary engineering team.
Required:

• Mechanical engineering degree, either BSc/BEng or MEng.
• Proficiency with 3D CAD software.
• 10 years’ experience.

Responsibilities:

• Organise and lead mechanical engineers to fulfil numerous orders and projects.
• Developing designs from concept through to production intent.
• Creating CAD models and fully detailed engineering drawings using GD&T.

Products include, but are not limited to:

• • High speed compressors
  • Enclosures for power electronics
  • Cooling structures
  • Testing hardware, prototypes, jigs & fixtures
• Liaising with members of the wider engineering team, as well as external suppliers.
• Work with Mechanical Team Leader to continue to build and develop mechanical engineering team to fulfil company strategic road map.
• Provide technical guidance and oversight to other mechanical engineers.
• Ensure products are developed to achieve compliance with automotive requirements.
• Provide technical liaison and support for customers.
• Contribute to the creation of FMEA’s.
• Participate in problem solving processes, such as 8Ds.
• Create/Review tolerance stack-ups.
• Create/Review and sign off reports, drawings, designs and calculations.
• Identify opportunities for improvements in functionality and manufacture.
• Create DVP&R plan for setup and running a test cell for validation work.

Skills, Experience and Personal Attributes:

• Proven experience of developing electro-mechanical components within the automotive sector or similar.
• Good understanding of solid body dynamics, structures and materials, heat transfer and fluid dynamics.
• 3D CAD modelling (Solidworks desirable) and GD&T as per BS 8888.
• Desirable - Experience in any of the following areas:
  
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Motor drive architecture
  • Motor design and/or electronic enclosures
  • Electronic power device functionality/Cooling methods
  • Rotordynamics - Shaft stress analysis
  • Balancing
  • Carbon fibre/Magnet retention
• DFM/DFA/DFV.
• DFMEA.
• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) - 3D Experience, Team Center, etc.
• Microsoft Office (Word, PPT, Excel, Projects).
• Excellent communication skills within multi-disciplinary team and with external customers.
• Self-starter, able to prioritise and plan effectively and manage own workload.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and a creative approach for new ideas.
• Keen attention to detail.
• Confident in use of basic workshop tools and processes.