Role: Mechanical Design Engineer – Oil & Gas

Location: North West, UK

Salary: Circa £40k basic + benefits

 

Based in the North West, our client is an IP-led advanced engineering company serving the Global Oil and Gas industry with a portfolio of patented connector technologies that provide secure, reliable and efficient connection points for the transfer of fluids and gases.

Its team of engineers and commercial specialists is dedicated to delivering the right client-focused connector technologies for a broad range of applications. Exciting times ahead mean they are now looking to hire a talented Mechanical Design Engineer to help further develop their solutions.

Empowering its engineering teams to be inventive, free-thinking and innovative in their work, within a culture of ownership and responsibility is central to generating the best outcomes for its clients.

What you’ll be doing

• Design work to ensure the company’s products meet the customer’s specifications, ensure the continuous improvement of the company’s products to enhance their capability and/or reduce their
• Development and design work on the future products of the company, including concept design, detail design, prototype testing and qualification
• Complete and implement none conformance reports & engineering changes
• Respond to customer requests regarding engineering drawings and engineering
• Writing of technical reports with regard to design, calculations & analysis, development and

 

What we’d like from you

• Experienced engineer with experience in real-world mechanical engineering, drafting, and production associated
• Minimum 2:1 Honours degree, BEng or BSc in Mechanical or Structural
• Enthusiastic team player, good communication, both verbal and
• Analytic, organised, measured and efficient working
• Happy to take direction and work to project requirements and
• Able to multitask and prioritise efficiently.

 

Your knowledge

• Ideally a minimum of 5 years of mechanical design experience in the Oil & Gas
• Experience in hand calculations associated with bolting, pressure vessels and
• Knowledge of relevant industry standards such as API, ASME, DNV, PD5500
• Generation of pressure vessel & structural calculations from first
• FEA experience using appropriate software (ANSYS, ABAQUS etc).
• Minimum of 5 years experience with 2D & 3D CAD (Solidworks, Inventor, SolidEdge etc).
• Experience with tolerancing & stack-up
• Technical documentation generation experience (O & M manuals, technical reports, qualification procedures etc).
• Proficient user of Microsoft Office
• Experienced MathCAD

 

Ideally you’ll have

• Experience in Valves and
• Experience managing Research & Development
• Extensive industry FEA experience (HISC, fatigue, ratcheting analysis etc) using applicable codes.
• Practical testing & qualification of prototype and existing
• Project planning / management
• Design for manufacture & assembly
• Corrosion-resistant material experience for subsea