Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Who are we?

At Mpac, we’ve been helping businesses evolve to meet new challenges for over 100 years. While most companies offer automation machines, we craft complete automation ecosystems that are unique and personalised to our customer’s needs. Our business centres around our people, we want the best minds to be part of our team and we remain committed to nurturing a workplace culture that thrives on diversity, inclusivity, and innovation.

Purpose of the Role

To provide robust, effective, product design solutions to the business to ensure the business meets its responsibilities to customers & regulatory bodies.

Key Accountabilities

•Provide a high level of design output through a thorough understanding of internal / external customer and regulatory requirements.

•Continuously apply innovative thought to ensure the companies design services offer maximum value to our customers.

•Provide a high level of commercial awareness to ensure design solutions are delivered in the most cost effective manner and scope changes are managed in accordance with the company’s standard operating procedures.

•Ensure schedules are understood and workload is managed so that deliveries are met.

•Ensure design output is in line with the company’s standard operating procedures and relevant regulatory requirements.

•Effectively communicate project status to team members, management, customers and suppliers

•Play a pro-active role in the department’s continuous improvement programme.

•Provide the Engineering Manager with the required information to establish a projects performance relative to its KPI’s.

•Always strive to add value to our customers, building partnerships based on trust, respect and flexibility. Communicate effectively at all times and provide unrivalled extra service, unexpected and beyond anything our competitors provide.

•Provide technical input at internal and external design review meetings.

•Mentor designer engineers involved in the project to ensure quality of design output.

•Lead machine commissioning activities where necessary

Key Responsibilities

•Provide a high level of skill in interpreting the customer’s and regulatory requirements to ensure designs are aligned. This will ensure technical risk is reduced to acceptable levels and deliver solutions right first time.

•Being constantly commercially aware to maximise value to our customers and maintain a loyal customer base.

•Ensure the relevant design documents are issued in line with the schedule enabling agreed deliveries to be met.

•Ensure that design quality is maintained throughout the project by verifying that the output meets the company’s standard operating procedures. This will ensure internal and external customers are satisfied.

•Communicate project status to the Engineering Manager to ensure they can pro-actively plan.

•Contribute to the department’s continuous improvement programme to ensure the business provides the highest possible value of service to our customers.

•Compile information and report to Engineering Manager on the project performance relative to the departments KPI’s. This will ensure the department is constantly aligned to the company’s strategy.

•Perform the role of technical support during internal and external design review meetings to ensure key design approvals are achieved in line with project schedules. Plan resource requirements with the Engineering Manager to develop project milestones and maintain the design status report to ensure visibility of other departments so they can pro-actively plan.

•Apply technical due diligence by being process risk aware and applying FMEA, design studies and POP to mitigate risk. This will be achieved through a full understanding of all relevant customer & regulatory requirements ensuring our products are fully capable and compliant.

•Where necessary, lead machine commissioning activities in collaboration with the Project Manager to ensure successful FAT and SAT by coordinating the commissioning team and their activities.

•Work with all Mpac colleagues to ensure compliance with ISO14001, ISO9001, ISO45001 and support a culture of Lean and Continuous Improvement by complying with appropriate Standard Operating Procedures. This will ensure that Mpac retains its accreditation and maintains its position as a provider of high quality service and that its employees are working efficiently and safely.

•Work with all Mpac colleagues to ensure that our internal customer ethos is delivered and maintained through everything we do including right first time, on time and in full.

•Always demonstrate respect, integrity, trust and excellence in interactions with all colleagues, customers and suppliers in line with Mpac internal customer programme.

Core Behavioural Competencies

Mpac Core Competencies

•SHE

•Initiative

•Self-Development

•Positive Self Image

•Flexibility

•Thoroughness

Role Specific Competencies

•Innovative Thinking

•Rational Persuasion

•Critical Information Seeking

•Analytical Thinking

•Interpersonal Awareness

•Results Orientation

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

•Experience in identifying and reporting long and short term project resource requirements

•Ability to perform the role of Senior Designer for multiple projects simultaneously.

•The generation and verification of design documents. (Assembly drawings, detail drawings, parts lists, P&I diagrams, pneumatics diagrams).

•Interpretation of customer requirements and presentation of design solutions at internal design reviews.

•Commercially aware of the effective use of resources, scope change and implications of choice.

•Experience of supervising and mentoring a design team.

•Experience in the design of industrial automation in a manufacturing environment.

•Experience of working in an innovative environment and providing innovative solutions.

Desirable

•Applying technical due diligence, being risk aware, performing FMEA and using design studies and POP work to mitigate risk.

•Knowledge of British and international standards relative to the design and installation of industrial automation systems.

•Experience of conducting risk assessments and generating technical files in accordance with the Machinery Directive and other British and international standards relative to the design and installation of industrial automation systems.

•Experience in the validation procedures and application of GAMP.

•Experience in evaluating technical requirements and providing viable solutions.

•Experience in presenting design solutions at internal and external customer design review meetings.

Skills and Qualifications

Essential

•Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Suite.

•Sound interpersonal skills.

•Ability to prioritise work within tight timescales.

•Proficient in the use of 3D design software (Preferably Inventor/Solid works).

•Proficient in the use of PDM software (Preferably Autodesk Vault).

•Min 5 years design experience.

Desirable

•Apprentice trained in mechanical or mechatronic engineering discipline with post apprenticeship design experience.

•HNC, HND, or BSC in a relevant