Design Engineer
Gloucester
£45,000 - £55,000 per annum
Permanent Position
The Design Engineer role focuses on producing drawings and CAD models for packaged offsite-manufactured mechanical & electrical plant rooms.
This is a fulfilling and fast-paced role driven by serving the many and varied needs of our valued customers according to their requested timescales, but always with a strong focus on attention to detail and high quality drawing output. Other tasks would include improving and updating processes, other continuous improvement projects, other technical drawings, and other projects that enhance the product range.
Responsibilities:
- General Solidworks CAD tasks & projects. Maintaining standard parts library, adding new parts to library, modelling up new parts, creating/checking standard product GA drawings.
- Completing customer approval drawings for package plant room and skid module projects: pre-sale generic layout drawings, post-sale approval drawings, detailed production drawings and BoM's, and as-built drawings as required. This would include GA and P&ID (schematic) drawings.
- Reviewing structural drawings/calculations
- Engineering change request management
- Supplier and cross-departmental liaison
- Running mini engineering projects from start to finish
- Preparing drawings and CAD output for project documentation, e.g. datasheets, selection guides, exploded drawings, O&M manuals etc.
Experience:
- Experience in designing mechanical and electrical plant rooms essential, primarily pipework systems e.g. process, LTHW, CHW, HWS, BCWS, boilers etc. Ideally in a factory environment.
- Experience in Solidworks CAD essential
- Meticulous attention to detail and knowledge of relevant standards and industry best practices
- Sheet metal and general metal fabrication design and knowledge advantageous
- Knowledge of structural steelwork advantageous
- Electrical knowledge advantageous