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Mechanical Design Engineer developing mechanical aspects for new and supporting existing Allied Universal Electronic Monitoring products. Contributing to all aspects of mechanical development, manufacturing and maintenance with a strong emphasis on continuous improvement with the QMS team and supporting the NPI process.

Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities

• Work in team to develop excellent, robust and easy to use new products.
• Ensure that all Mechanical designs and calculations are fully documented and archived.
• Support efforts that ensure new products quickly reach the market.
• Support and drive the NPI processes to ensure a full and complete product is released Work towards gaining a strong understanding of customer requirements, to ensure that products will be best in class.
• Develop new IP and ensure that it can be protected by following IP documentation and confidentiality processes.
• Maintain up to date understanding of the technology sectors applicable to the company’s current and future products.
• Ensure that all designs are fully type approved to ensure that they meet all aspects of functionality and performance defined in the Requirement Specifications.
• Provide technical support to operations and production teams to ensure product designs are understood and can be correctly manufactured and maintained.
• Providing brief weekly reports on task progress with regularly updated estimates of time elapsed and engineering effort required to complete assigned project tasks.

Key Competencies

• Mechanical Design Engineering
• Delivering performance managing professionally
• Customer thinking
• Awareness of the market environment
• Sharing & Co-operating
• Driving change

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Mechanical Design
• Design & manufacture of plastic parts
• BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering or related
• Minimum of 2 years working in a Product Design environment
• Solidworks experience
• Very good communication skills

Desirable

• Right first time mentality
• Technical experience in a relevant field
• FMEA experience