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Mechanical Design Engineer

On-site in Gloucestershire·Added 2 days ago (last checked 30 Oct)

Agency
Matchtech

645 open roles

Our summary

Salary
£50 a day
Work mode
On-site, Gloucestershire
Contract
Contract role, inside IR35

Skills

Nice to have

Requirements

Nice to have

  • Experience with Creo and/or Visio (a lot of legacy drawings are currently in Visio)
  • Pneumatics exposure (advantageous, not mandatory)

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

  • Rate: Market rates (Inside IR35)
  • Clearance: SC clearable (start on BPSS), UK Eyes Only

The role

What you'll do

  • Design and document short-term safety mitigations for production test equipment (e.g., safety enclosures, mechanical modifications)
  • Contribute to long-term design changes to bring existing test equipment up to new safety standards
  • Review, capture, and document existing equipment designs
  • Produce and maintain mechanical drawings and supporting technical documentation
  • Coordinate closely with systems experts, safety team, operations, and other stakeholders
  • Deliver quick, efficient design outputs appropriate for a fast-paced production environment
  • Consider operator safety (immediate compliance) alongside longer-term maintainability and design direction

How you'll work

  • Location: Cheltenham, fully onsite
  • Duration: 6 months

Skillset / Experience Required

  • Mechanical design engineering experience (ideally production / manufacturing / defence environment)
  • Strong SolidWorks capability (SolidWorks is available for new drawings)
  • Comfortable producing and interpreting mechanical drawings and technical documentation
  • Flexible, hands-on mindset-able to deliver pragmatic, compromise solutions quickly when needed
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management (safety/ops/systems collaboration)
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