Mechanical Engineer Cambridge, East of England, England
Job description
Working as a Mechanical Engineer at SPT Labtech provides you with the opportunity to see your ideas come to life. If you are creative, have a passion for product development in a technically challenging field, good at managing your technical work and working collaboratively with your team members and are determined to see technical development challenges through to successful outcomes then you will fit right in.
Your key responsibilities will include:
Helping to define product requirements, through close contact and collaboration with our customers, and for the early prototyping work necessary for de-risking the technology. As the design progresses you will be expected to develop working prototypes for placements with customers and gather user feedback for iterating the design, along with input from in-house manufacturing engineers. Once the product is developed, tested and proven you will be responsible for ensuring that the design data and know-how is transferred through to the manufacturing and service teams to enable serial production and product support. Throughout, you will be working as a member of a multidisciplinary team, with increasing technical responsibility.
Requirements
Skills & Attributes
The essentials:
- A 1st or 2:1 degree in Mechanical Engineering from a leading university, with a thorough understanding of materials, mathematics, mechanics, structures and fluid mechanics
- At least 3 years of experience in a product development or R&D environment
- A passion and talent for engineering and strong, demonstrable technical problem-solving skills
- A good understanding of the product development process and experience of working in multi-disciplinary project teams
- Experience of using SolidWorks CAD – 3 years minimum
- Strong technical expertise, together with hands-on experience in the development of complex technical solutions for new products and processes
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, fully proficient in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
In addition, experience with the following would be beneficial:
- Fast prototyping of ideas and concepts
- Project management
- Materials science
- Experience of designing parts for plastic injection molding with experience in the medical sector being of particular benefit
Our company culture supports diversity and is inclusive of all regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, or family status, and we endeavor to support our employees' needs to the best of our ability.
Benefits
We offer a competitive salary and a fantastic benefits package including: Private Medical Insurance, generous Pension Plan & Profit Share. Also, CycleScheme, discounted gym memberships, free swimming and Employee Assistance Programme.
We are based on the Melbourn Science Park, a lovely village location that is still only short commute from Cambridge, Royston and the surrounding areas. There are plenty of activities to get involved in from running, cycling, to STEM activities with local schools.
