Westlakes Recruit are currently recruiting for a Senior Mechanical Engineer on a permanent based in Reading with hybrid working.
Role Responsibilities

• Lead the creation of optimal design solutions to address client requirements.
• Produce substantiation calculations and justifications to demonstrate design performance against requirements.
• Author and update technical documents.
• Manage your projects' delivery against time, cost and quality requirements.
• Support our quality assurance process through review or checking of colleagues' work.
• Present your work to our clients at formal reviews.
• Work within project teams, these may include placements at clients' sites.

Experience

• Degree (or equivalent) in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline.
• Chartership with a relevant engineering institution or be progressing towards obtaining this.
• Sound understanding of mechanical engineering principles and their application to varied projects and domains.
• Creativity and experience across the design lifecycle including undertaking requirements capture, concept generation, development and down–selection.
• Familiarity with working to design codes and industry standards appropriate for a safety critical industry.
• Experience in the production of design documentation, including calculations,reports, specifications and requirements capture documents.
• Experience of leading teams to deliver mechanical engineering design projects.
• Experience working in the nuclear or other safety critical industry.

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