Mechanical Design Engineer

• Location: Cheltenham, fully onsite
• Duration: 6 months
• Rate: Market rates (Inside IR35)
• Clearance: SC clearable (start on BPSS), UK Eyes Only

Responsibilities

• 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

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)

Desirable

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