Senior Mechanical Support Engineer – Croydon

Spitfire Staffing is currently recruiting on behalf of one of our well established and successful clients in Croydon.

Due to further success and an upturn in business, they are looking for reliable and hard-working candidates to join the team.

The Role:

• Support the business from a Hands On Engineering perspective to include: BoM checks and sign off, condition assessments, job pack creation, engineering changes, concessions, preparation for overhaul projects, preparation for FAIs, fault investigation and diagnosis, warranty claim investigation, problem solving, creating method statements, creating component overhaul instructions, test procedures, conduct material analysis and comparisons, report compilation and reviewing, design tooling, etc (list is indicative but not exhaustive)
• Understand systems to become a ‘subject matter expert’ (SME) on transmissions, couplers, cooler groups, final drives, and other products, in time.
• Be accountable for the delivery of their own work and the review and approval of work from other members of the engineering team;
• To have the ability to review drawings and designs created from reverse or re-engineering projects for mechanical components and systems;
• Support the Head of Engineering and Quality in setting and upholding the standards.
• To support junior engineers and workshop fitters across their range of tasks;
• Assist with training requirements, ensuring the team continue their development in product knowledge, safety, confidence, attitudes, processes; skills, standards, etc;
• Assist purchasing and quality with supplier selection and assessment;
• Assist with the improvement, development, implementation and management of engineering processes in safety critical environments;
• To understand and work within a range of requirements including BS / ISO / RISAS standards applicable to mechanical and rail engineering systems;

Details:

• Up to £50,000pa (depending on experience)
• Permanent
• Monday to Friday
• 36.5 Working week

Requirements:

• MUST have a HANDS-ON, flexible, positive, adaptable and proactive approach.
• MUST have fluent technical and conversational English
• Experienced engineer with (as a minimum) an HNC/HND qualification (or equivalent) in a mechanically biased engineering discipline.
• A minimum of 10 years professional engineering experience, with a good balance of general engineering, reverse engineering, testing, problem solving, technical process writing (method statements, overhaul instructions), condition assessments, technical investigations and task management.
• Knowledge of various industries ranging from Mobility (Rail and Marine) to the Power Oil and Gas sectors is advantageous
• Knowledge of mechanical driveline and connecting products and systems (gearboxes, cardan shafts, highly flexible couplings, rail couplers, cooler groups, etc) is advantageous but not essential
• Knowledge / use of CAD packages such as Siemens NX and Autodesk Inventor is advantageous.
• Knowledge of technical drawings (including BS8888 symbology / standards), design principles and ability to review design proposals is advantageous.