KO2 specialise in mechanical design engineering roles for electronics embedded systems businesses developing complex embedded systems that need enclosing in housing to ensure compatibility for the industry sector.
You can see our current hybrid and remote mechanical design engineers jobs above, with both contract and permanent opportunities.
It should be noted that not all of our available positions are advertised right away, so if you’re interested in this kind of role but don’t see a position that would suit you, get in touch and speak to our team about other potential opportunities.
As a mechanical design engineer recruitment agency, KO2 has experience placing mechanical design engineers in all kinds of electronics and embedded systems roles. This means working with mechanical design engineers who purely specialise in new product development and work from a blank sheet of paper typically using a 3D CAD package such as Solidworks, Catia and Creo, as well as working with mechanical design engineers who specialise in improving current designs and ensuring current designs are compliant.
We place contract and permanent mechanical design engineers in roles, who largely use Solidworks and Creo CAD packages. Candidates that understand the interplay between the design and manufacturing of electronics and embedded devices allow for more intuitive design and innovation, making this a role that is highly in demand.
Previous candidates have been placed on commercial, defence, medical, automotive, IoT and energy projects.
The mechanical engineers we recruit are typically working towards design for manufacture, and have experience with 3D CAD packages such as Solidworks, Catia and Creo as well as FMEAs, and have the relevant standards experience. Many of our candidates have both 3D and 2D CAD experience, but typically specialise in 3D CAD and have the ability to work with injection moulding (plastic and metals), compression moulding, investment casting, multi-axis machining, motor calculations and gearbox selections, full mechanical design lifecycle experience (concept to manufacturing), design for products enclosing electronics/PCBs and experience collaborating with external partners.
Aside from having relevant mechanical design experience, our candidates usually need experience in working with electronics and embedded system engineers. It would be unusual to find a mechanical engineer with the ability to design electronics or programme embedded software, as mechanical design engineers will typically have designed products that enclose electronics and embedded systems, and must feel comfortable working in a multi-disciplined R&D team focusing on fast-moving product development.
According to data from Glassdoor, the average annual salary for a mechanical design engineer is £37,835. You’re likely to begin on a lower annual salary at the start of your career if you’re a graduate engineer, but the high end of the average payscale is around £52,000 a year.
The role of a mechanical design engineer is always going to be in demand because it’s considered an evergreen role. There will always be new mechanical products being created and refined, from vehicles to manufacturing equipment, which means that companies are always going to want to hire candidates for this role.
Manchester is often listed as one of the best UK cities for a mechanical design engineering career because of all the industrial companies based there. London is another great city for engineering in general as the capital of the country, but Edinburgh, Bristol, Glasgow and Birmingham also all have plenty of opportunities.
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