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Development Engineer

To build and functionally develop feed systems and special purpose machinery within agreed timeframes to design specification.

Development Engineer

Main Duties and Responsibilities

* Mechanically assemble machinery to general arrangement drawings.

* Install and plumb pneumatic elements of machinery.

* Support electrical engineers with fitting of cable tray, feeding cables etc, where required.

* To work to communicated timeframes against project milestones.

* Participate in design reviews when requested to feedback thoughts and concerns to design prior to build.

* Take machines beyond the point of power on, through initial running and develop them into a fully functioning piece of production equipment in line with works order requirements.

* Suggest any potential modifications to machine construction to improve/achieve required performance.

* Detail any part modifications undertaken to feed back into the design change process.

* Attend customer site for installation, commissioning and/or service visits when required.

* To adhere to the Quality Management System and associated policies, processes and procedures.

Skills

* Comfortable with and confident in the use of hand and power tools.

* The ability to build industrial machinery to engineering drawings.

* The ability to develop industrial machinery from power on to final test.

* The ability to read engineering drawings, general arrangement drawings and pneumatic schematics, and to build to these drawings.

* An awareness of common electrical componentry used on industrial machinery, as well as its functionality.

* Knowledge of the Automation sector.

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