What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mechanical Design Engineer position at Royal Mail?
Job reference 321914
Mechanical Design Engineer
Competitive salary, Car allowance of £4200 or £3700 as cash via payroll each month (£308.33), Family Private Healthcare, Annual bonus potential of upto 18%, Generous annual leave offering of 27.5 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 30 days after 10 years service
Permanent, Full time
National role with the need to be able to work onsite at our Glouscter office 3 days per week with some site travel across the UK
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Royal Mail as a Mechanical Design Engineer. The Mechanical Design Engineer is responsible for delivering high levels of mechanical engineering competence to a team of highly skilled technical engineers. The role will work actively as part of the Design Engineering team, striving to modernise and improve existing processes whilst driving new and innovative solutions into our current ways of working to improve business performance
This is a key role in our journey to bring the engineering vision to life, responsible for managing and developing a key team within engineering and supporting the growth of the engineering design strand.
About the role
The MDE plays a leading role in driving engineering design projects, innovations and solutions both centrally and locally. You will :
- Drive the mechanical design of in-house technical solutions whilst leading and testing and implementation plan for mechanical bias projects within the design engineering team
- Identify future opportunities to drive in-house manufacturing capability to deliver key elements of engineering design projects
- Deliver quality service to engineering teams for spares, obsolescence and continuous improvement initiatives
- Champion new processes to drive in-house capability, innovation and people development within engineering
- Work closely with maintenance teams to drive reliability into existing automation fleet
- Promote the business culture : Be Positive, Be Brilliant, Be Part of It and drive professionalism, positivity and engagement within all areas of RM Engineering
About You
You should have the ability to lead, inspire and energise a team of technical experts to deliver high performance whilst being a positive leader within engineering, playing a key role in the development of central and national teams
You will have the following experience :
Extra Benefits
Next Steps
The next stage of the selection process will be a face to face / virtual interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions.
Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean ‘your’ interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place. This will allow you time to prepare, and ensure you have your best examples in mind. Royal Mail Group values both trust, and our people.
We don’t expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you.
Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.
We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.
We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses / partners.
Closing Date 26th January. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.
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Salary : $3,700 - $4,200