Mechanical Design Engineer

Recruiter:

The Recruiters

Job Ref:

RDK0130

Date posted:

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

Salary:

660000

SUMMARY:
Mechanical Design Engineer

POSITION INFO:

The candidate will be required to design components to suit customised pump arrangements, modify existing drawings where necessary and provide advice to machine-shops, fabricators and fitters to ensure the design is implemented correctly through installation.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Create new designs where necessary, complete with cutting lists and machining/fabrication drawings.
1. Review customer and sales problems/requests, to evaluate and provide technical solutions to product performance in the field.
2. Review manufacturing drawings and work closely with the production team to provide technical support during the manufacturing and assembly process, including troubleshooting and problem-solving as needed
3. Assist the Sales Department with new designs or adjustments to existing designs for baseplates, vertical pumps, pontoons, walkaways and tanks. Provide technical support to the sales department on new products
Comply with all the design requirements according to customer specifications, industry and engineering standards.
1. Provide engineering calculations including but not limited to: Load analysis, material stress, fluid dynamics, Centre of gravity.
2. Identify material requirements and provide assistance with the bill of materials generated and verify the bill of materials per job file received.
Select appropriate materials and components for designs, considering factors such as cost, durability, and availability.
1. Be responsible for the support of the assembly process to ensure that all contractual technical requirements are met. The candidate shall identify assembly methods and/or develop new assembly methods if required and resolve any problems encountered during the assembly process.
2. Able to interpret engineering drawings, assist machine-shops and fabricators with machine-setup & interpretation of drawings
Work together with the Quality department to interpret drawings and identify/resolve Non-Conformances.
1. Responsible to ensure adherence to ISO quality standards and procedures of record keeping and maintenance of drawing register, traceability, Drawing Revision Management. The candidate shall ensure that the machine shops are updated with new drawing revision numbers, that the company records (vault files) are updated with new drawing

Revision numbers and that Bluebox (ERP System) (BOM’s) are updated with new drawing revision numbers.

Participate in design meetings with Technical sales, QA & the planning department. Technical handovers, internally and externally.
Analyse the full scope of supply, bills of materials and other project documentation
1. Evaluate machine-shop and fabricator abilities and capacities, and provide feedback to procurement to improve lead times, cost management and quality.
Liaises with customers and suppliers as required.

Core Competencies & Abilities:

Good general knowledge of pump application, mechanical and hydraulic loading, engineering concepts.
Knowledge of material strengths, fits and tolerances.
Hands-on experience with design, engineering and/or fabrication of pump components
Good experience with and willing to conceptualise designs using CAD packages.
Sound knowledge of Metallurgy
Experience on Vault
ERP System experience
Proficient computer skills as well as:
- Autodesk packages, Product Design & Manufacturing: CAD Software, Autodesk Inventor, 3ds max, Navisworks, Vault, Fusion
- Strong verbal and written communication skills are necessary.
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a creative approach for generating new ideas.
- Minimum of 8 years’ experience in mechanical design and fabrication detailing

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