Job Description
Role: Mechanical Engineer
Site Location: Bristol
Rate: £40 per hour
IR35 Status: Inside IR35
To support the Mechanical team to design and build robotic and other hardware that support OCR's business and product objectives
Responsibilities:
Support the design, development of, and build of snake-arm robots, industrial robots, tools, test rigs, sensors and other hardware using sound engineering principles and best practice knowledge.
Help optimize and develop designs from basic block models through to manufacture/assembly - be able to apply learnings from analysis and/or test to improve reliability/reduce mass to meet tight project specifications
Work with the mechanical engineers to develop test criteria and procedures to validate electro-mechanical assemblies
Continually and effectively communicate to all members of the mechanical team to maintain team cohesion
Support other teams in their work as required
Qualifications/Requirements:
Degree level education, supported by significant industrial experience working in multi-disciplinary design teams.
Strong Experience in the use of 3D CAD packages, ideally Autodesk Inventor.
Strong experience in creating engineering drawings and an understanding of geometric tolerancing techniques.
Strong experience in mechanical component design using a variety of manufacturing techniques.
Experience working across different engineering lifecycle phases.
Strong experience in design for manufacture and assembly.
Proven ability to perform and document tolerance stacks across complex assemblies.
Proven ability to develop test methods and carry out testing to validate calculations/analysis and support development of electro-mechanical assemblies
Flexible in work attitude, and have a wider range of mechanical design and/or manufacturing skills to support product development
Desired Characteristics:
Positive, self-motivated, enthusiastic and able to apply initiative
Good organisation skills, able to prioritise under pressure and work to tight deadlines
Flexible work attitude, happy to get stuck into any tasks to support the wider project team.