Job Description
Current Products - Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Wotton under Edge
up to £48,000 depending on experience
Renishaw’s CMM & Gauging Products Division (CGPD) is seeking Senior Mechanical Engineers to join the Machines Current Products Team, reporting to the Current Products Manager.
Why Join the Current Products Team?
The Current Products Team plays a vital role in maintaining and improving Renishaw’s established product portfolio. Working closely with various teams across the business, you will have the opportunity to influence product quality, reliability, customer satisfaction, and operational performance while working on a diverse range of technical challenges across the product lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
Provide engineering support for products in manufacturing, production and service.
Investigate and resolve technical issues, product failures, and customer concerns.
Support process improvements, product transfers, and production efficiency initiatives.
Lead initiatives to improve product quality, reliability, manufacturability, and cost-effectiveness.
Identify opportunities for design optimisation and component standardisation.
Conduct root cause investigations and implement corrective actions.
Support the ongoing design and development of current products.
Manage engineering improvements through formal engineering change management processes.
Maintain products quality and ensure compliance of products with relevant industry standards and regulations.
Support audits, product validation, and certification activities.
Contribute to FMEAs, risk assessments, and quality improvement programmes.
Reduction in product defects and field failures.
Timely resolution of manufacturing, assembly, and customer issues.
Effective implementation of engineering changes.
Achievement of product cost reduction targets.
Improvements in reliability and quality metrics.
Delivery of assigned projects and actions on time.
Compliance with quality and regulatory requirements.
Key Requirements
Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Product Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
Experience supporting products within a manufacturing or engineering environment.
Strong problem-solving and product troubleshooting skills.
Understanding of root cause analysis and continuous improvement methodologies.
CAD and PLM systems experience and knowledge of engineering change control processes.
Desirable Requirements
Professional engineering accreditation.
Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or similar continuous improvement qualification.
Knowledge of relevant industry standards and regulations.
Experience with design simulations tools.
Benefits
When you join Renishaw, we're committing to your future career. That's because we believe in developing our people's skills and promoting them internally. We also offer a benefits package that's highly desirable; including a 9% non-contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, *subsidised onsite restaurants and *coffee shops, free parking, *car sharing scheme and *24 hour fitness centres. ( not available at all sites).
We also want to promote a healthy work-life balance as much as possible, so we have introduced a hybrid working policy which allows for a combination of home and office based working depending on the nature of your role. We also offer a variable working programme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Life Assurance policy of 12 times annual salary, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, Health Cash Plan, the option to join BUPA Renishaw Health Trust and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.
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Employment Type:
Permanent
Time Type:
Full time
Requisition Number:
R9570 Mechanical Design Engineer (Open)