About this job:
To provide the sustain and design engineering services for the ongoing support and design of Mechanical systems.
Your key responsibilities:
Support Mechanical systems requirements capture & management, design, development, integration, validation and commissioning activities.
Creation of technical specifications, functional design specifications and test procedures for Mechanical systems.
Create and maintain accurate Bill of Material and part specifications for efficient supply and assembly.
Contribute to writing Mechanical system sections of O&M Manual for End Users.
Engages in providing Mechanical engineering support to both manufacturing and the operating companies.
Provide SME support to major technical quality investigations.
Support OEM led RCA investigations and hold them accountable to resolution where appropriate.
Ensures that the Mechanical engineering aspects of the products are selected, engineered and packaged to meet a variety of applications and environments, taking into account efficiency of operation, reliability, maintainability, flexibility and lifetime costs of ownership.
Develops the Mechanical engineering aspects of the existing and new product ranges to achieve operating and manufacturing improvements and to meet new needs in the marketplace. This includes adapting the products to meet entirely different applications and the needs of new business sectors.
Carries out technical liaison with key suppliers regarding the selection of components, their support in production and subsequently throughout the lifetime of the product.
Supports the improvement of HSE performance via product design and operational guidance ensuring safety is given top priority. Assists the Risk Assessment process for design and field issues.
Sound like you? Here's what you'll need to demonstrate:
- Ability to work effectively within a team. Teams may be within Technical Department, Manufacturing or worldwide.
- Flexibility to meet a fluctuating workload and a wide variety of, often unpredictable, problems.
- Ability to quickly build up an understanding of the commercial realities.
- Ability to respond constructively to pressure and continual change.
- Highly committed and goal driven.
- Excellent communications and good organisational skills
- Delivery and accurate reporting of assigned work to agreed time, cost and quality expectations.
- Promotes and demonstrates right first time 'zero defects' approach to task delivery
The knowledge and skills you'll need to be successful:
- Extensive Mechanical systems knowledge gained through equipment design experience.
- Highly Proficient in CAD systems. Knowledge of Creo/ProE and AutoCAD is desirable.
- Knowledge of engineering systems and processes - PLM systems (Enovia/Winchill), MRP systems (M3), Engineering change control, international standards, component selection, and new product development processes.
- Ability to interpret customer requirements to produce fabrication and assembly drawings and all part specifications of the Mechanical system.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Capability includes analysis (thermal, vibration, torsional stiffness, flow, stress, noise), material and component selection, life determination, tolerance analysis.
- Experience of engine, alternator, coupling, AVM, mounting frame power train including calculations and approval of alignment, stiffness, torsional vibration including component specification, assembly, operational and service requirements.
- Capability for cooling system calculation and sign off including pipe and power losses, cooling performance in extremes of ambient and altitude, noise and vibration
- Highly computer literate with knowledge of Microsoft office.
The people you'll work with:
Group wide controls engineering community to;
- Share own expertise and experience to support local needs.
Key vendors to;
- Maintain technical contacts with supplier of control system components and to ensure fit for purpose and compliant specifications.
Product Lines to;
- Provide SME support as required for Mechanical engineering issues beyond capabilities of product engineers.
Guidant Global (BH4SF) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.