Mechanical Design Engineer

Solidworks Mechanical Design Engineer - York - £35,000 to £40,000 (Permanent, Full Time)

There's a particular kind of satisfaction in designing something that thousands of people will interact with, night after night, in some of the liveliest and most visually spectacular environments going. KO2 is working exclusively with a client who sits right at the sharp end of that world: a business with genuine engineering pedigree, half a century of it in fact, that designs and builds the complex electromechanical hardware behind large scale digital and broadcast entertainment systems. Think precision, think polish, think products that have to work flawlessly under proper scrutiny, and you're somewhere near the mark.

They're now after a Mechanical Design Engineer to join a well established Hardware Development team based at their York site, working alongside electronics and software colleagues on products that go from a rough sketch on a whiteboard right through to full production.

What you'll be getting stuck into

Generating mechanical designs that are genuinely inventive but also, crucially, buildable, working closely within a multidisciplinary team

Carrying products through the full development journey, from early concept and proof of principle work through detailed design and on into manufacture

Producing proper manufacturing packs: component drawings, assembly drawings and work instructions, using SolidWorks alongside the usual Microsoft Office tools

Getting involved in design reviews and testing, making sure everything meets the standard the department expects

Lending a hand to colleagues across product development and manufacturing when it's needed

Reviewing and improving existing products, not just chasing new ones

Working to project deadlines, and mucking in with whatever else the business reasonably needs from youWhat you'll need to bring

Several years' hands on experience designing products in SolidWorks, ideally three years or more

A solid working knowledge of mechanical manufacturing processes and what each is actually capable of, including sheet metal work (cut and bent), hard and soft tooled mouldings, bearings and drives, electromechanical interfaces, machined and turned components, and the sensible use of off the shelf parts

Experience working directly with suppliers to properly understand what their processes can and can't do

A knack for picking up legac...