Principal Mechanical Design Engineer
Certain Advantage · Huddersfield ·
- Seniority
- Principal
- Employment
- Full time
- Category
- Engineering design
Principal Mechanical Design Engineer
Certain Advantage is hiring for a Principal Mechanical Design Engineer based in the Huddersfield area.
This role is on a permanent basis and is hybrid-based.
The Company
We’re working with an engineering company specialising in solving complex engineering challenges across industries—from Power Generation, Rail and more.
Does this sound like your next career move?
If you’re ambitious to grow, this may be your next role?
The Role:
This role is for a Principal Mechanical Design Engineer—someone ambitious and ready to make an impact. You’ll be results-oriented and driven to succeed.
You’ll be leading a small, experienced, and collaborative team, and be responsible for:
We’re looking for people who can show:
Working with Certain Advantage
We go the extra mile to find the best people for the job. If you’re hunting for a role where you can make an impact and grow your career, we’ll work with you to find it.
We work with businesses across the UK to find the best people in Finance, Marketing, IT and Engineering. If this job isn’t for you, head to certainadvantage.co.uk and register for job alerts and career guidance tips.
Certain Advantage is hiring for a Principal Mechanical Design Engineer based in the Huddersfield area.
This role is on a permanent basis and is hybrid-based.
The Company
We’re working with an engineering company specialising in solving complex engineering challenges across industries—from Power Generation, Rail and more.
Does this sound like your next career move?
If you’re ambitious to grow, this may be your next role?
The Role:
This role is for a Principal Mechanical Design Engineer—someone ambitious and ready to make an impact. You’ll be results-oriented and driven to succeed.
You’ll be leading a small, experienced, and collaborative team, and be responsible for:
- Lead and line manage the team, coordinating workloads, resolving issues, and ensuring delivery against timescales, KPIs, and customer requirements.
- Lead complex, high-value projects, delivering innovative, technically advanced solutions and providing expert guidance.
- Drive quality in simulation deliverables and lead continuous improvement initiatives within the delivery stream.
- Manage non-conformance, implementing corrective actions and process improvements.
- Contribute to engineering strategy, best practices, and process development to enhance operational performance.
- Define and capture design requirements, ensuring clarity and alignment throughout delivery.
- Lead internal and external design reviews, securing client acceptance of designs.
- Provide expert technical support in mechanical engineering across projects
We’re looking for people who can show:
- Design of transmission systems, gears, and gearboxes
- Mechanical specifications, scopes of work, calculations, drawings, and schedules.
- Analysis of complex design issues, identifying root causes and implementing effective solutions.
- Iterate and refine designs through testing and analysis to ensure compliance with specifications.
- Manage and track design changes to existing products.
- Working knowledge of key design tools, including Solid Edge, Siemens NX, and AutoCAD.
- Confident in chairing design review meetings.
- Salary circa £70 000 per annum
- Training and Development
- Career progression
Working with Certain Advantage
We go the extra mile to find the best people for the job. If you’re hunting for a role where you can make an impact and grow your career, we’ll work with you to find it.
We work with businesses across the UK to find the best people in Finance, Marketing, IT and Engineering. If this job isn’t for you, head to certainadvantage.co.uk and register for job alerts and career guidance tips.