Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

A highly respected engineering and technology business is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer to join its Custom Projects Team.

This is not a traditional product maintenance or incremental design role. Instead, you'll work on customer-driven engineering projects, developing bespoke solutions and modifications to sophisticated precision instruments for some of the world's most technically demanding applications.

Every project is different. Every challenge is unique.

We're looking for an engineer who enjoys taking ownership of a problem, developing a creative solution, and delivering it right first time.

The Opportunity

You’ll be responsible for transforming customer requirements into practical, high-performance engineering solutions, typically delivering projects within development cycles of six months.

Working closely with customers, commercial teams, manufacturing, and R&D colleagues, you’ll take projects from concept through design, validation, manufacture, and implementation.

Success in this role comes from balancing creativity, engineering rigour, and commercial urgency.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Designing bespoke mechanical solutions to meet specific customer requirements.
• Taking ownership of projects from concept through to implementation.
• Creating innovative design concepts and evaluating multiple technical approaches.
• Performing engineering calculations, tolerance analysis, and FEA where required.
• Working closely with manufacturing teams to ensure designs can be delivered efficiently.
• Supporting testing, validation, and product introduction activities.
• Collaborating with customers to fully understand application requirements and performance expectations.

You will ideally have:

• A Mechanical Engineering degree or equivalent experience.
• A proven track record in mechanical product development.
• Experience designing precision mechanisms or engineered assemblies.
• Strong 3D CAD capability.
• Knowledge of manufacturing methods, materials, and assembly processes.
• Excellent practical problem-solving skills.
• The ability to balance innovation with delivering solutions within demanding timescales.

The Type of Engineer Who Thrives Here

• Enjoys solving customer-specific engineering challenges.
• Thinks creatively when standard solutions won’t work.
• Has a strong "right first time" mentality.
• Takes ownership rather than waiting for direction.
• Likes seeing concepts become reality quickly.
• Enjoys working at the interface of R&D, manufacturing, and customers.
• Motivated by technical achievement rather than people management.

Why Join?

• Highly varied project work with no two projects the same.
• Opportunity to work on world-class precision engineering products.
• Significant technical autonomy and ownership.
• Fast-moving development environment where good ideas become reality.
• Work on genuinely challenging engineering problems for global customers.
• Clear progression opportunities for ambitious engineers.

This opportunity would suit an experienced Mechanical Design Engineer, Senior Mechanical Engineer, Product Development Engineer, R&D Engineer, Precision Engineer, or Innovation Engineer looking for a role where creativity, technical excellence, and customer-focused problem solving are valued equally.

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