Mechanical Design Engineering Manager

About the role:

You will report to the CTO.  You will be responsible for leading a team to develop a front-end design into a fully defined electrolyser. This will involve producing Bill of Materials and Assembly Drawings  to enable volume manufacture.  This will involve managing of the Mechanical Design Team and coordinating with other disciplines. This will need excellent communication skills as well as technical knowledge.  You should be skilled at organising teams, resource planning and scheduling and implementing document management systems.

Responsibilities include:

• Leading Team of Mechanical Design Engineers to realize finalized mechanical design of Electrolyser in 3D CAD (SolidWorks)
• Delivering Mechanical Design Project Documentation Package including Parts Specification, Bill of Materials and Manufacturing/Assembly Drawings for Electrolyser.
• Resource Planning, Estimating Schedules for Mechanical Design Projects
• Administering PLM System
• Working closely with other functions such as Production, Procurement, Process and Electrical Engineering.
• We would expect the role to carry out and check design work as well as manage the team.

Key skills and experience. 

• A degree in Mechanical Engineering discipline
• Minimum of 5 years in relevant role
• Experience of designing in 3D CAD
• Experience of leading teams
• Experience of administering Bill of Materials and PLM System
• Experience in Volume Manufacturing Environment

• Able to apply Design-for-Manufacture and Design-for-Assembly methods
• Confident and outgoing
  • Communicate requirements
  • Comfortable and clear presenting results to broad audiences
• Validating designs using stress/strain (FEA) and fluid dynamics calculations (CFD)
• Understanding and using design rules from standards
• Achieving certification under the Pressure Equipment directive
• Mechanical Design of pressure equipment and pipework handling and applying relevant codes.
• Experience in SolidWorks.

Start Date:

September 2025

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