Senior Mechanical Engineer

Design a mechanism that restores movement to someone who lost it, from a blank sheet between two fixed interfaces on a new robotic prosthetic subsystem. This Senior Mechanical Engineer role is in Leeds, hybrid around 2 days a week, paying up to £60,000, with flexibility to £65,000 for the right person.

As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, you own the mechanical design of a subsystem end to end, from a blank sheet to a tested, manufacturable design.

• Design load bearing, moving structures at small scale, to tight packaging constraints.
• Take concepts into SolidWorks and produce detailed design, with drawings to BS 8888.
• Run structural and tolerance analysis behind your designs, including FEA and hand calculations.
• Build custom test fixtures and take your designs through verification and validation.
• Select materials and manufacturing methods with design for manufacture and assembly in mind.

• Extensive experience in mechanical design, as a Senior Mechanical Engineer or Mechanical Design Engineer, not product design or CAD only.
• A track record designing moving assemblies, mechanisms or articulated parts, with bearings and constraints.
• Experience in a regulated environment such as medical devices, aerospace or defence, with risk management.
• Experience owning mechanical engineering as sole or near sole engineer, not one of a large team.
• Confident in SolidWorks or similar 3D CAD, with full existing UK right to work.

• Up to £60,000 base salary, with flexibility to £65,000 for an exceptional candidate
• Hybrid working, around 2 days a week on site
• A direct line to the technical lead, with no project managers in the way
• Full ownership of a subsystem, with real say over materials, methods and test approach

As a Senior Mechanical Engineer here, you join a business with more than a century in prosthetic and assistive technology, selling globally. The team is building a new robotic prosthetic device from the ground up, and you own a defined subsystem within it. It is a small team, fewer than five people, giving you real ownership and a direct line to the lead. What you design ends up on someones arm, giving them back function they had lost.

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