Our Design / Research & Development Resource Team are equipped and experienced specialists in searching and sourcing relevant engineers at all levels. This team consists of experienced consultants supported by a specialist sector researcher, covering all aspects of the needs and demands of a modern engineering customer base, from blue sky concept design, research and development, right through to design for product launch.
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The name of Probe in the marketplace has developed an excellent reputation for quality thus ensuring that our clients come back to us having benefited from our superb service in the past. We also attract the very best engineers, should they be Contract or Permanent, because we have the level of vacancies they are looking for.
Having one of the largest databases of Design Engineers in the UK also means that we attract a very large portfolio of companies who regularly tap into our vast resources and professional expertise.
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This service is aimed at providing Contract Engineers at short notice, to work either on or off site to supplement your existing workforce. These engineers have all been interviewed and screened for their qualifications, suitability and experience and many have a strong working history supporting our customers with their project workloads.
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- Project Engineering / Management - Concept / Prototype / Process / Value Engineering / Design
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- £45,000 - £55,000 + Healthcare
Role Overview
Do you have a background in designing bespoke machinery and leading projects from start to finish?
Are you a Senior Design Engineer or Design Manager with good industry experience in bespoke machinery design?
We are looking to recruit an experienced individual for a bespoke equipment manufacturer based in Staffordshire.
The company have a long history of providing bespoke solutions to customers all over the globe and are often requested to create one off machines for specific tasks.
After another great growth year for the company in the way of orders and project requests, and this upturn is now requiring a new Design Manager to join the company and assist in the demand for new projects to be designed.
Salary and Benefits
- £45,000 - £55,000
- 33 days holiday, including bank holidays.
- Healthcare
- 37 Hours per week, 8:45am – 5:00pm, 4pm finish on Friday’s, with some flexibility.
- Immediate Start
Commutable from: Stafford, Sutton Coldfield, Burton, Derby, Tamworth, Rugeley, Lichfield, Burton, Burntwood, Cannock
Candidate Requirements
- Qualified to HND / Degree level in an engineering discipline, ideally Mechanical or Product Design.
- You must have a sound knowledge of mechanical engineering principles and product design processes.
- It is essential that you have several years' experience designing using 3D CAD in Mechanical Machinery Design.
- Experience of working in a manufacturing environment.
- A Design Manager or Engineer with experience of managing a small team.
- Candidates should have a strong Design background in Fabrications, Machine Parts and Hydraulics.
Key Responsibilities
- As the Design Manager you will be responsible for updating existing machines and working on new and existing product ranges, with a strong partnership to shop floor and other engineering personnel.
- You will take ownership of Design Projects from start to finish.
- Management of all design activities from concept through to production validation.
- The robust design of products in accordance with the department procedures.
- Investigating design factors such as function, materials, performance, interchangeability, cost, operational efficiency.
- Preparation of Project Engineering data for new product assemblies and components, e.g. 3D / 2D Drawings, BOM's, Technical Specifications.
- Customer technical liaison on new projects, ensuring that the designs meet the customer's requirements and often exceed their expectations and remain competitive to achieve sales growth and increase market share.
- £55,000 + Pension, Bonus, Healthcare
The Company
For over 60 years, this business has been constantly evolving their product portfolio to meet the demands and ever-changing needs for some of the world’s largest industries. From the design of their first ever product, the business has sustained manufacturing excellence, setting the industry standard.
Today they operate from a purpose built, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Northampton, where they routinely design and develop system solutions for bespoke applications.
Due to an increasing volume of sales they now need to expand and strengthen their Engineering department.
Control & Instrumentation Hardware Engineer Package, Benefits and Hours
- Salary up to £55,000
- 37 hours per week; Monday to Thursday 8:30am – 17:15pm, Fridays 8:30am – 12:30pm
- 25 days holiday, plus statutory
- 10% employer pension, 4% from employee
- Excellent contractual benefits package to include: death in service, income protection benefits and health insurance, together with a non-contractual annual profit share bonus
Commutable From: Northampton, Long Buckby, Leicester, Coventry, Milton Keynes, Rugby, Banbury
Role Overview
The control & instrumental hardware engineer will design, development, and commissioning of control systems, including variable speed motors and drives, PLC based test systems, P&ID diagrams.
You should be experienced in in electrical CAD design and creating high quality project documentation to deliver exceptional solutions for customers.
This role will see you assist with commissioning of systems both in-house and at customer sites within UK and internationally.
Control & Instrumentation Hardware Engineer Key Requirements
- Degree / NVQ level 5 or equivalent engineering qualification.
- 2 years designing (electrical CAD) & developing C&I systems.
- PLC Programming (Siemens Step 7 / TIA Portal / Controllogix / Beckhoff PLC / Codesys desirable)
- Knowledge of industrial communication protocols (e.g. ProfiNET, CAN)
- Industrial wiring and switchgear, Industrial sensors e.g. encoders, transducers for pressure, flow, temperature etc.
- Understanding of UK electrical legislation UKCA, CE, UL, CSA
- Safety standards ISO 13849, IEC 61508
If you are interested in this Control & Instrumental Hardware Engineer role, please apply today for more information and be sure to leave your contact details.
- £40,000 - £45,000 + Pension, Bonus, Healthcare
The Company
For over 60 years, this business has been constantly evolving their product portfolio to meet the demands and ever-changing needs for some of the world’s largest industries. From the design of their first ever product, the business has sustained manufacturing excellence, setting the industry standard.
Today they operate from a purpose built, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Northampton, where they routinely design and develop system solutions for bespoke applications.
Due to an increasing volume of sales they now need to expand and strengthen their Engineering department.
Development Engineer Package, Benefits and Hours
- Salary £40,000 - £45,000
- 37 hours per week; Monday to Thursday 8:30am – 17:15pm, Fridays 8:30am – 12:30pm
- 25 days holiday, plus statutory
- 10% employer pension, 4% from employee
- Excellent contractual benefits package to include: death in service, income protection benefits and health insurance, together with a non-contractual annual profit share bonus
Commutable From: Northampton, Long Buckby, Leicester, Coventry, Milton Keynes, Rugby, Banbury
Role Overview
The Development Engineer will assist Business Development to provide technical solutions to customer enquiries and study, research and develop ideas for new products and methods used to make them.
You will be working on a wide range of high-speed rotating machinery, couplings and test rigs of bespoke design that must be functional, reliable, easy and safe to use, including modifying existing products or processes to increase efficiency or improve performance.
Development Engineer Candidate Key Requirements
- Experience or knowledge of high-speed rotating machinery / rotordynamics or similar would be highly advantageous.
- Mechanical Engineering Degree with Aerospace/Automotive/Energy/Oil & Gas background together with 3 to 5 years of demonstrable experience in a similar role.
- Working knowledge and experience of CAD & PDM (preferably SolidWorks) and FEA tools (preferably ANSYS Workbench and/or SolidWorks Simulation).
- Ability to create and interpret engineering drawings with GD&T.
- Abley to perform hand calculations for preliminary design, sizing, and stress assessment of static and rotating components.
- Material selection ability and knowledge of conventional manufacturing processes.
- Good understanding of Applied Mechanics, Strength of Materials, Metal Fatigue, Rotordynamics, and Vibrations along with a basic understanding of heat transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics.
Key Responsibilities (but not limited to)
- The Development Engineer will support the Chief Engineer in providing timely response to new application and product enquiries for driveline components (couplings, torquemeters, spindles etc.) and turnkey test rigs for testing high-speed rotating machines such as e-motors, generators, aero engines, gearboxes, turbines, compressors, pumps, turbochargers etc.
- Produce innovative designs/ideas and create workable and cost-effective solutions.
- Assist in product costing and preparation of technical and commercial proposals.
- Assist in new product development and product improvement activities including brainstorming, design, analysis, supplier selection and testing, creating 3D CAD conceptual designs and 2D drawings.
- Collaborate with manufacturing, assembly and testing to build in-house R&D test rigs for new product development.
- The ability to conduct test schedules, document the results and present these findings clearly.
- £32,000 - £42,000 + Pension, Life Assurance
I ampleased to be supporting our industry leading manufacturing client in their search for a permeant Mechanical Design Engineer.
Benefits:
- £32,000 - £42,000
- 25 Days annual Leave + Bank Holiday
- Company Pension
- Life Assurance Scheme
This Mechanical Design Engineer role will see you creating 2D & 3D designs using Autodesk Inventor to customer specification to meet increased demand within this growing precision engineering business.
The ideal candidate will be a mechanical design engineer with liaising with clients, supporting technical issues from a design perspective and have exposure to manufacturing environments.
Design Engineer Experience:
- Mechanical Engineering qualification.
- 2D & 3D design.
- Manufacturing exposure.
This role is open to design engineers, mechanical design engineers, senior design engineers and design managers.
If you are interested in this “Mechanical Design Engineer” role, please apply today for more information and be sure to leave your contact details.
Commutable from: Leicester, Coventry, Lutterworth, Derby, Coalville, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Hinckley, Melton Mowbray, Tamworth, Burton Upon Trent, Corby.
- £40,000 - £50,000 + Hybrid Working + Benefits
This is an exciting role with a global leader in the design and manufacture of specialist machinery. They are part of an established group who have 70+ years experience behind them, and who continue to grow, with the introduction of new products.
The Mechanical Design Engineer will provide design engineering capability to engineering activities/projects assigned to client’s design engineering centre.
Salary, Hours, and Benefits
- £40,000 - £50,000 dependant on experience
- 8:30am – 5pm, Monday to Thursday, 2:00pm finish on Friday’s (with flexibility available)
- Hybrid working
- Life Assurance, x2 of salary
- Employee rewards portal
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Modern working environment
Commutable From: Birmingham, Leicester, Rugby, Leamington Spa, Tamworth
Mechanical Design Engineer Candidate Requirements
- HND or suitable mechanical engineering design experience. A Degree would be ideal but isn’t essential.
- 3D design proficiency - Pro-Engineer / Creo experience is preferred, but isn’t essential.
- Have a hands-on approach to engineering design and development.
- Full system design experience would be preferred.
- Any Automotive, Military, Heavy Engineering, Off Highway / Construction Equipment experience would be advantageous.
- Ability to work independently and within a team.
- Excellent technical aptitude.
- Previous experience of engineering projects/activities.
- Planning and priority setting.
- Working knowledge of hydraulic, electrical and mechanical systems would be a big advantage.
Mechanical Design Engineer Key Responsibilities
- The Mechanical Design Engineer will support the generation and delivery of concept and manufacturing design definitions, based on technical specifications, requirements, costs and other constraints.
- Support the conceptual development for new products.
- Participate in maintaining relevant engineering processes and procedures.
- Supporting the identification of business opportunities.
- Problem solving on existing products and product improvement.
- Support the evaluation of technical issues in order to develop proposals for investigations and/or solutions.
- Support assigned projects, ensuring requirements are delivered to plan and budget.
- Working alongside the customer on product development ensuring delivery of solutions to meet the customer’s requirements.
- Keeping up to date in relevant technical areas, developing skills and capabilities, and giving support to others as required.
- Actively participate in business unit improvement activities.
- £55,000 + Pension, Healthcare
Company and Role Overview
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Engineering & Design Lead, to work with a leading manufacturer of advanced process technology, who have a rich, well-established background. They have sites here in the UK and overseas
The company's strength lies in its process expertise, engineering excellence and the ability to fully support customers worldwide. The service is complete - from design through installation and commissioning to lifetime support.
The purpose of the Mechanical Design Team Leader is to manage a team of mechanical design engineers of a specific product sector. This requires hands-on technical design leadership, in addition to managing the team workload, communication, quality, and long-term professional development of the team.
Pay, Hours and Benefits
- £55,000
- Monday to Thursday, 8:30am – 5pm, 1:30pm Finish on Friday’s
- 30 days holiday (inc statutory) plus an additional three days at Christmas
- Life Assurance
- Healthy Pension
- Company and Private Healthcare Scheme
Commutable From: Corby, Wisbech, Spalding, Stamford, Peterborough
Engineering & Design Lead Candidate Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience in 3D design, analysis and testing of mechanical systems
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to develop innovative solutions
- Ability to manage multiple projects and prioritise accordingly
- Experience leading and developing other engineers
- Commercially aware
- A level of flexibility is required, as some UK and Global Travel is included
Engineering & Design Lead Key Responsibilities (but not limited to)
Technical
- Provide technical direction to the team, producing sound engineering solutions to engineering problems, backed up with design analysis where appropriate.
- Develop and implement innovative solutions to problems incorporating the latest materials, manufacturing processes and technology to drive the product range forward.
- Manage product developments, ensuring changes are controlled and implemented across the product range to maintain a standard equipment offering
- Take overall design responsibility for projects assigned to the team and manage them from project launch to completion ensuring all project deliverables are met.
- Ensure all required design standards and legislation are met and that supporting documentation is produced and approved.
- Take responsibility for equipment quality, resolving any design problems found during manufacturing or commissioning.
- Coordinate technical support to sales to help produce accurate project proposals and to manage project risk.
Team Management
- Direct day-to-day management of team members.
- Recruitment and training plans for direct reports as well as mentoring of junior engineers.
- Management of project cost, schedule and quality.
- Review and provide feedback on prospects incl schedule, design hours and project risk.
- Deputise for the Engineering Manager or other Lead Sector Engineers when needed.
- Drive and be a role model for the company values & behaviours.
- To be aware of and follow all company Health & Safety policies and procedures, in respect of self and others.