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    4. Mechanical Design Engineer South Molton 2023
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    Eaton's Aerospace manufacturing site in South Molton is now looking for a Mechanical Design Engineer to join their highly successful team. This role will suit either a fresh graduate or a seasoned manufacturing professional.

    What you’ll do

    As part of the Post Development Support (PDS) Engineering team this role provides Mechanical Design and Project Engineering support to the Production cells at the South Molton site covering primarily aircraft fuel system products for a variety of civil and military aerospace applications. The role supports the Manufacturing function with process, obsolescence and design related issues including review and approval of permits and concessions for non-conforming product, Engineering Change Requests and Engineering Change Orders for the change to design data.

    Responsibilities:

    • Investigate and sentence non-conformance requests, provide general technical support, manage obsolescence etc. whilst providing robust technical justifications for decisions. Drive to meet turnaround time goals/commitment dates for closure of Engineering activities. These activities have a direct impact on monthly business finances (sales and scrap) and customer on time delivery.
    • Review and provide clear documentation (marked up prints) of changes required to drawings to address manufacturing issues such as obsolescence, manufacturing easement, cost out etc.
    • Support the process of creating customer approval paperwork where required, in order to gain customer approval for permanent changes to designs.
    • Support supply chain by interpreting and respond to suppliers technical inquiries relating to designs during the manufacture.
    • Participate in print reviews and liaise with manufacturing to ensure manufacturability of designs.
    • Provide status updates and participate in project team meetings

    Qualifications

    • Degree in Mechanical Engineering or relevant experience
    • Mechanical Engineering, aircraft or fuel system products would be a plus

    Skills

    • Good organisational and planning skills with an ability to communicate well with customers (Internal and External).
    • Confidence in own technical ability
    • Decisive and firm
    • Capable of working effectively and efficiently under pressure
    • Capable of leading projects/investigations
    • Strong collaborative skills
    • Strong problem-solving skills
    • Solutions driven with good documentation practice
    • Excellent time management and project/task prioritization skills
    • Strong customer focus mindset
    • Willingness to adopt flexible work patterns when required to meet business needs
    • Willingness and ability to work with Engineers and Production staff at all levels
    • Responsive to the needs of the task in hand

    What we offer

    • Competitive compensation and benefits package
    • Challenging projects in dynamic collaborative team
    • We make your aspirations matter – Eaton encourages internal promotion, whenever possible
    • We make your growth matter - We invest in our employees for the long term – not just with salary and benefits, but with ongoing learning and development opportunities made available through Eaton University
    • We make your contributions matter - reliability, safety, efficiency, and sustainability are at the core of our dedication to improving people’s lives and the environment through power management technologies.