Mechanical Design Engineer
- Location: Cheltenham, fully onsite
- Duration: 6 months
- Rate: Market rates (Inside IR35)
- Clearance: SC clearable (start on BPSS), UK Eyes Only
Responsibilities
- Design and document short-term safety mitigations for production test equipment (e.g., safety enclosures, mechanical modifications)
- Contribute to long-term design changes to bring existing test equipment up to new safety standards
- Review, capture, and document existing equipment designs
- Produce and maintain mechanical drawings and supporting technical documentation
- Coordinate closely with systems experts, safety team, operations, and other stakeholders
- Deliver quick, efficient design outputs appropriate for a fast-paced production environment
- Consider operator safety (immediate compliance) alongside longer-term maintainability and design direction
Skillset / Experience Required
- Mechanical design engineering experience (ideally production / manufacturing / defence environment)
- Strong SolidWorks capability (SolidWorks is available for new drawings)
- Comfortable producing and interpreting mechanical drawings and technical documentation
- Flexible, hands-on mindset-able to deliver pragmatic, compromise solutions quickly when needed
- Strong communication and stakeholder management (safety/ops/systems collaboration)
Desirable
- Experience with Creo and/or Visio (a lot of legacy drawings are currently in Visio)
- Pneumatics exposure (advantageous, not mandatory)
