Salary: £20000 - £50000/annum £NEG excellent + benefits
Category: Engineering
Job Type: Permanent
Job Location: Colchester, Essex
Posted on: 12/11/2008

Mechanical Design Engineer



Mechanical Design Engineer



Mechanical Design Engineer. A Colchester based computer products firm require a Mechanical Design Engineer to work on design and development of high performance computer products based on Intel® CPU technology. The firms activities centre around expanding and enhancing their range of VME bus, CompactPCI, AMC and other products, to meet the demands of their customers for advanced technology designs, which often have to be tolerant of higher levels of mechanical shock and vibration. Beyond this, they are looking at more complex system-level products involving even more extensive mechanical design. Their boards are based on Intel 80x86 CPUs, mainly the dual-core and Pentium M processors, with high-speed peripheral and other interfaces.

The Mechanical Design Engineer will be an established mechanical design engineer, educated to graduate level and with experience of designing thermal and mechanical solutions for electronic products in harsh environments. Ideally this experience will involve bus-based modular boards, products dissipating 60W or more and BGA packaged electronic components. A familiarity with VME or CompactPCI bus systems would be perfect, but is not required. Practical experience of the thermal and mechanical issues involved in designing for rugged environments such as airborne or ground vehicle mounted equipment would be a significant advantage. In all cases, you need to demonstrate an ability to design cost-effective and compact solutions which have excellent thermal transfer characteristics.

They use SolidWorks for mechanical design, and CF Design for thermal analysis, so familiarity with these tools is very desirable, though not essential.

The Mechanical Design Engineer will be able to negotiate salary depending on experience



Proactive People, established in 1999 is an employment agency and business



Job Reference: 107344103
Contact Details: Proactive People