PRINCIPAL ANALYTICAL ENGINEER
| Employment Type | Permanent |
|---|---|
| Location | Cambridgeshire , Cambridge |
| Industry Sector | Mechanical |
| Start Date | |
| Salary/Rate | £excellent package |
| Reference | J4812 |
| Date Advertised | 10-10-2008 - 12:39 |
This vacancy is out of date and no longer accepting applications.
Description
Principal Analytical Engineer
To work within multi-disciplinary teams on major development projects, applying your mechanical engineering and CAD abilities to realise novel medical technologies. The position will require working within a team of highly talented, multi-disciplinary engineers to develop world-leading medical products for our clients around the globe.
Principal Analytical Engineer
To work within multi-disciplinary teams on major development projects, applying your mechanical engineering and CAD abilities to realise novel medical technologies. The position will require working within a team of highly talented, multi-disciplinary engineers to develop world-leading medical products for our clients around the globe.
The development of innovative medical devices and equipment from concept to prototype manufacture, often incorporating considerable technical challenges.
The Medical Technology Division undertakes development projects in the four focus areas of:
Medical Imaging
Medical diagnostics and instrumentation
Surgical products and medical systems
Drug delivery devices
Combining highly creative lateral thinking with excellent technical skills and a broad base of industry experience to form a powerful development team. Work ranges from undertaking complete product developments from concept to market, to providing consulting services for clients on their technology, strategy or development processes.
The division undertakes both client funded and internally funded projects.
Specific responsibilities
Initially, this position involves taking roles within development projects with exposure to all aspects of development from contract negotiation to final delivery. You will be involved in concept generation, analysis of system architectures and mechanical design and liaison across other engineering disciplines. You will be responsible for generation of concepts and layouts of systems in CAD, tolerance analysis of product designs and preparation of technical reports.
You will have contact with clients at an early stage, getting involved in defining work programmes, holding technical workshops and giving presentations. You will manage tasks within projects requiring delivery within tight timescales and budgets, managing both internal and external resources. This is likely to develop into management of projects, having full responsibility for delivery to clients.
This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer with the ambition and ability to achieve excellent results in a highly demanding industry and to find novel and radical solutions to new and existing problems under tough commercial, regulatory and time constraints.
Minimum requirements
To meet the demanding requirements of this role you will have an excellent degree in mechanical engineering or a related discipline.
You should have a level of practical experience, ideally having spent time in an engineering design environment.
Exposure to the Pharmaceutical or Medical Device industry would be an advantage.
Experience in 3D CAD, preferably Pro Engineer and Solid Works is required. An understanding of manufacturing techniques, assembly processes and material selection is also desirable.
Hands-on experience in leading mechanism design, stress analysis, mould flow analysis and other CAD analysis tools would be beneficial.
Future Prospects
The company is committed to developing its employees careers and has a flexible policy for individuals' capabilities and preferences. Within the line management structure there are opportunities for promotion to Group Leader with responsibility for managing one of the companys business areas, or Senior Consultant with recognition for exceptional technical expertise, and beyond to more senior management positions.
This is a growing company and promotion is linked to merit.
Employment benefits
Good salaries, based on merit and reviewed annually
Profit share in addition to basic salary
Flexible working hours
Excellent career development and training opportunities
Free lunches and refreshments
Private medical insurance and company sickness scheme
Pension scheme including free life assurance
25 days annual holiday plus bank holidays
Assistance in relocation if applicable
Active social committee
Well equipped and pleasantly situated building
Above all, real responsibility for real business problems, with good career prospects based on merit
Successful candidates will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment.
Mylen Recruitment Ltd is a recruitment agency specialising in Mechanical, Electronic, Production, IT, Software, Automotive and Aviation Engineering.
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