Details:
- Salary: £28,000 - 30,000 - Annum
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Annum
- Location: Lichfield Staffordshire
- Date: 4 days ago
Description:
Graduate Mechanical Engineers - Why You Should Apply
Learn from senior engineers: Fresh out of uni, you'll work alongside experienced engineers who'll show you how real products go from idea to finished casting. You'll build genuine design skills fast.
Somewhere you can grow: More than half the team have been with the business for five years. There's a clear roadmap for where this role can go, so you can develop your mechanical engineering career.
Your work goes into the real world: You'll apply your mechanical engineering degree to structural and functional design problems for products in use. What you draw and model gets made and used, so you see the results of your work.
A small team with a big vision: This is a fast-growing British company with global reach and a technical vision through to 2030. Join now, and you're in at the ground floor of the next stage, with room to bring your own ideas.
Your salary, benefits & hours of work
£28,000 - £30,000 depending on background
Cash health plan
24 days holiday plus bank holidays
Company pension
A rewards platform covering electric vehicle and childcare salary sacrifice, plus high street discounts
7.30 am to 4pm, with 1 hour lunch, 37.5 hours per week, based on site in LichfieldWhat you'll do as a Graduate Mechanical Engineer
You'll join the UK design team and support the design, drawing and validation of the product range, guided by senior engineers.
Develop and modify 3D CAD models and 2D engineering drawings to the required standards and tolerances
Apply mechanical engineering principles to structural and functional design challenges
Support product analysis and contribute to design improvements
Get hands-on with prototyping, first-off sample reviews and engineering documentation
Gather feedback from operations to inform design decisions
Take part in design reviews and contribute your technical inputWhat you'll need to apply for the Graduate Mechanical Engineer
A degree in mechanical engineering, or a closely related discipline
Some exposure to 3D CAD (SolidWorks or any major package)
The appetite to learn and develop your design skills within a close-knit teamInterested?
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