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Mobile Commercial Gas Engineer
Robert Hurst Limited
Nuneaton
In office
Mid
£40,755
RECENTLY POSTED
TECH-AGNOSTIC ROLE

About:

We are currently seeking an experienced Mobile Commercial Gas Engineer to join our clients team based in Coventry. The successful candidate would cover service, maintenance and reactive work requirements to clients commercial heating systems and associated pipework. This role will be mainly covering clients, warehouses, offices and retail premises around the Midlands with the occasional Nationwide travel if necessary. Dealing with various commercial and domestic heating systems boilers, burners, warm air heaters etc.

Key Responsibilities:

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Carry out annual services and scheduled maintenance visits to a high standard in accordance with Health & Safety procedures.

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Completion of the required Gas Safety Certificates and/or any other relevant documents upon completion of any work.

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Installation of new Heating and Hot Water systems.

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Troubleshoot, Diagnose, identify, and rectify faults to equipment and systems to a variety of different manufacturers makes and types of equipment.

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Identifying parts and materials with suppliers and contacting manufacturers to query technical faults, warranties etc.

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Attend to maintenance and reactive calls to plumbing jobs as may be required.

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Attend scheduled Training courses when necessary to ensure all skills and qualifications are up to date and to maintain H&S requirements and safe working practices.

Requirements:

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Candidates must be Gas Safety Registered/ Commercial Gas safe registered

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Have a clean Valid UK driver’s license.

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Have Commercial Gas qualifications, domestic gas qualifications desirable.

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Experience with air handling/ventilation systems.

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IPAF/ PASMA are also essential due to servicing requirements to high level warehouse gas radiant heaters.

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Be available to work away as there is a requirement to work away from home sometimes to complete required service visits.

Employee Package:

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Pay Rate £20.90 per hour

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37.5 Hours per week guaranteed (£40,755 P.A.)

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Potential earnings with O/T £45k to 55k

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Normal working core hours are Monday - Friday, 08:00 – 16:00 – (30 Mins Lunch unpaid)

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Overtime as available (Daily hours in excess of 7.5 paid at time and a half)

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Working time door to door

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Callout Standby Rota - £10.00 per day - Standby 1 week in 7

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Company Van and Fuel Card

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Lodge Cards (Premier Inn & Travelodge)

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Company Mobile Phone / PDA

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24 Days Holiday + 8 Days Bank Holidays

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Pension

Workshop Engineer
Future Engineering
Ashby-de-la-Zouch
In office
Junior - Mid
£45,000
RECENTLY POSTED
TECH-AGNOSTIC ROLE

Ashby-de-la-zouch

£35,000 - £45,000 Basic + Training Courses + Good Reputation as a market leader + Appreciation + Stability + Great Package + IMMEDIATE START

Are you a skilled workshop engineer looking for a role where you’ll be genuinely supported, invested in, and valued from day one? Join a respected and long-established business in the powered access industry, known across the UK for its excellent reputation, strong team culture, and commitment to developing its people.

This is your opportunity to become part of a company that believes in continuous training, professional growth, and helping engineers build long-term, rewarding careers. You’ll receive ongoing technical training including courses and the backing of a close-knit team that wants you to succeed.

If you’re an experienced workshop engineer, this is a chance to join a supportive, growing organisation where your skills are recognised, your ideas matter, and you’ll be part of a company you can be proud to represent.

This Workshop Engineer Role Will Include:

  • Workshop Engineer role - regional patch
  • Diagnosing faults, servicing, repairs and breakdowns
  • Working on powered access equipment
  • Access to ongoing OEM training to continually develop your skills

The Ideal Workshop Engineer Will Have:

  • Experience as a Workshop Engineer or similar
  • Any mechanical background considered
  • Experience with mechanical fault finding
  • Must be commutable to Ashby-de-la-Zouch and happy to travel

Apply now or call Georgia on 07458163040 for immediate consideration!

Keywords: field service engineer, service technician, material handling, powered access, plant, heavy plant, cranes, ashby-de-la-zouch, east midlands, nottingham, leicester, derby, loughborough

This vacancy is being advertised by Future Engineering Recruitment Ltd. The services of Future Engineering Recruitment Ltd are those of an Employment Agency.
Please visit our website at futureengineer.co.uk to view other positions we are currently handling.
Future Engineering Recruitment Ltd can only accept applications from candidates with a valid legal permit or right to work in the United Kingdom. Candidates who do not have this right, or are awaiting approval, should not apply.

Senior Mechanical Engineer
Morson Edge
Oakham
Hybrid
Senior
£65,000
TECH-AGNOSTIC ROLE

We are recruiting for a Mechanical Engineer with design experience in the water sector on a permanent basis.

Role Accountabilities
Project Delivery

  • Collaborate with other discipline engineers and manage quality through the design workflow review to achieve time, cost and quality standards.
  • Ensure that the mechanical deliverables are produced to the required standards and specifications.
  • Check mechanical and hydraulic systems, including pumping systems, plant, building services, and ensure they have been completed to an appropriate level of detail and compliance.
  • Check integrated supplier packages and 3D models to ensure quality, safety, and technical standards are adhered to, including meeting DSEAR compliance.
  • Check mechanical documentation such as basis of design, specifications, work scope and schedules.
  • Review construction site design queries and change requests, to ensure quick but accurate responses and/or the design remains suitable.
  • Support the Senior Design Manager and Design Managers to forecast and allocate resources on a best for task basis.
  • Support the Project Design Managers and other engineering disciplines to plan and manage the design delivery, and to manage stakeholders regarding mechanical design acceptance.
  • Seek support and direction from the Principal Mechanical Engineer.
  • Provide knowledge for the creation and reviewing of supplier contracts and deliverables.

Health & Safety (CDM)

  • Drive excellence in health, safety and welfare for mechanical engineering.
  • Ensure designs comply with all relevant mechanical standards and regulations, including hazardous areas DSEAR compliance (if trained and competent).
  • Input into Construction Design Management (CDM) meetings and support preparing information for inclusion in the design risk assessment and Pre-Construction Information.
  • Develop designer alerts where lessons are to be learnt.
    Personal & Team Development
  • Support the Senior Design Manager to recruit Senior Mechanical Engineers and Mechanical Engineers.

Qualifications & Experience

  • An engineering, or equivalent, degree, or be able to demonstrate a degree level of ability through relevant experience.
  • Preferably Chartered, or working towards Chartered status.
  • Experience of water-sector assets and capital projects.
  • Knowledge of all relevent regulations, standards and codes of practice
  • Experience of mentoring and coaching of junior engineers.
  • Ideally, but not essential, experience of a Design & Build environment.

Competencies & Skills
Leadership

  • Integrity - Fosters within their team compliance with the organisations business ethics, a respectful attitude to others, positive action to build our reputation, and integrity.
  • Communication & Collaboration - Challenges and addresses poor collaboration and promotes effective communication to all stakeholders.
  • Emotional Intelligence - Demonstrates leadership with emotional intelligence by understanding the needs and views of others. Champions diversity and inclusion.
  • Development & Learning - Comprehensive understanding of the development and learning needs within the team and actively defines training plans to address competency gaps.
  • Decision Making - Provides support and guidance to others for making complex decisions. Understands the impact of their decisions and takes full responsibility.
    Management
  • People Management - Provides line management for a team and is highly regarded by their team.
  • Engineering Management - Manages engineering activities for a team to achieve efficient engineering outputs.
  • Quality - Ensures that quality procedures are robustly followed and identifies improvements.
  • Risk and Opportunities - Develops and implements strategies to mitigate risks and realise opportunities across multiple projects.

Technical

  • Design Production - Champions good practice in engineering designs including exercising independent judgement.
    Desing Output - Ensures that the Engineering documents, drawings and 3D models are produced to the required standard.
    -Innovation - Champions and delivers innovation concepts to improve efficiency within their teams and portfolio.
Senior Mechanical Engineer
Gerrell & Hard
Nuneaton
Hybrid
Senior
Private salary
TECH-AGNOSTIC ROLE

Are you an experienced mechanical engineer with deep automotive expertise, ready to lead the development and industrialisation of cutting-edge vehicle products? Doftek is looking for a Senior Automotive Mechanical Engineer to take ownership of our mechanical engineering activities and ensure our actuators perform flawlessly on every vehicle they integrate with.
This isnt a vehicle design roleyoull be developing products for integration into vehicles, ensuring they are manufacturable, reliable, and ready for series production.
What Youll DoLead all mechanical engineering activities at DoftekDesign and develop actuators and mechanical components, from one-off test samples to series-intent production. CAD, 2D drawing, and FEA skills are essential.Manage outsourced partners to ensure proper industrialisation of products for series production.Assemble actuators for bench testing and fit them to test vehicles, including Doftek and OEM cars.Design, commission, and run performance and durability test rigs.Manage customer sample and demo car projects from scoping to delivery.Oversee the Doftek workshop and a team of engineers.Act as the lead mechanical engineer in customer meetings, providing technical expertise and guidance.Travel to customer sites and test tracks across Europe as required.
What Were Looking ForExtensive knowledge of the automotive sector, especially end-to-end product development and integration.Experience on either OEM or Tier 1 side (Tier 1 experience a plus).Strong mechanical design skills including CAD, 2D drawings, FEA, DFM/DFC principles.Experience managing outsourced partners and ensuring industrialisation for series production.Hands-on experience assembling, testing, and fitting mechanical components on vehicles.Ability to lead and mentor other mechanical engineers.Comfortable being customer-facing and representing Doftek in meetings and at test sites.Willingness to travel in Europe as required.
Why Doftek?Join a fast-growing automotive technology company at the forefront of actuator development. This role offers the chance to take full ownership of mechanical engineering across product development and industrialisation, working directly with customers and shaping the products that go into next-generation vehicles.

Maintenance Engineer
Vistry Group
Coalville
In office
Junior - Mid
£41,000
TECH-AGNOSTIC ROLE

In a Nutshell

We have a great opportunity for a Maintenance Engineer to join our team within Vistry Works East Midlands, at our Bardon factory in Coalville, Leicestershire on a day shift. As our Maintenance Engineer you will be responsible for ensuring that all machinery is in correct working order and escalating where appropriate any concerns which may affect productivity. You will be taking care of an array of machinery and ensuring that all minor maintenance repairs are carried out, within a manufacturing plant producing modular timber frame panels.

Let’s cut to the chase, what’s in it for you

  • Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
  • Salary sacrifice car scheme available to all employees
  • Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays increasing to up to 39 days with service
  • 2 Volunteering days per annum
  • Private medical insurance, with employee paid cover
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
  • Competitive pension scheme through salary sacrifice
  • Life assurance at 4 x your annual salary
  • Share save and share incentive schemes
  • Employee rewards portal with many more benefits

In return, what we would like from you

  • Behave in line with our company values - Integrity, Caring and Quality
  • Previous experience working with CNC woodworking machinery would be highly desirable.
  • HNC / ONC in Mechanical Engineering
  • NVQ Level 3 Mechanical Engineering
  • You will be an experienced Maintenance Engineer, with a proven track record of being able to carry out minor maintenance work on a variety of machinery.
  • You will have previous experience of working in a manufacturing plant ensuring that repairs are carried out correctly and safely, ideally in a timber frame environment.
  • You will have a thorough understanding of process improvement by being able to monitor and improve efficiencies within the engineering team, with a specific focus on planned preventative maintenance.

More about the Maintenance Engineer role

  • You will be responsible for scheduling and undertaking planned preventative maintenance tasks on all machinery used within the factory, including blade/cutter changes on different pieces of machinery
  • You will work closely with the health and safety department, ensuring compliance and adherence to all relevant policies and procedures at all times
  • You will be required to resolve mechanical breakdowns on all equipment within the production area quickly and efficiently, with the safety and wellbeing of our people being our key priority
  • You will undertake specific project work as directed by your line manager on an ad hoc basis
  • You will be responsible for monitoring the air handling plant and resolving any breakdowns with the plant as is necessary
  • You will provide engineering support to other production departments or site services as required by the needs of the business
  • You will be required to carry out any other reasonable request as directed by your line manager, or other members of senior management in the business

Finally, let’s tell you a bit more about us

We build more than homes, we’re making Vistry. Being a responsible developer and award-winning employer means we live each day through our ethos - doing the right thing. Our behaviours reflect this, as well as our values of integrity, caring and quality. Shaping all we do; they empower us to develop sustainable communities across affordable and private housing. We work in a partnership-led way, and you’ll recognise our renowned brands Bovis Homes, Linden Homes and Countryside Homes. Together with Vistry Works, our manufacturing operation, and the functional support of Vistry Services, we’re a proud UK Green Building Council member, UK top five housebuilder with a five-star House Builders Federation (HBF) customer satisfaction rating, and winner of many awards including Top Employer, Global Top Inspiring Workplaces, and Best for Talent Attraction and Outreach.

Join us in making Vistry.

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Maintenance Engineer
Eko Talent
Multiple locations
In office
Mid
£55,000
TECH-AGNOSTIC ROLE

£57,500 + Company Benefits

  • Enhanced Overtime Rates
  • Training Courses + Upskilling Qualifications

We have partnered with a leading manufacturing company, are looking for a highly skilled and qualified engineer within any of the following sectors - Packaging, FMCG, Food Production, Warehouse, Manufacturing.

The main responsibilities of the Maintenance Engineer will include.

  • An electrical and mechanical maintenance focus across all production operations
  • Ensuring machinery is maintained and fully functional - Conveyors, robotics, cranes, automation equipment
  • Maintaining all mechanical and electrical process equipment.
  • Fault finding and diagnostics.
  • Following a PPM schedule and recording follow up work.
  • Continually developing to improve operations to drive improvements in quality, cost and safety.
  • Assisting production with machinery problems and setups, providing relevant training when appropriate.

If you are interested in this Maintenance Engineer role, please submit an up-to-date CV through this advert or call the Eko Talent on 0331 6304 666.

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Morson Edge
Loughborough
In office
Senior
£65,000
TECH-AGNOSTIC ROLE

Morson Edge have partnered with a client, a Tier 2 Civils outfit operating within the water sector, to recruit for a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer in their Leicstershire office.

Role Objective
Be responsible for the checking and reviewing of mechanical design deliverables to ensure they are fit for purpose, meet the required standards and specifications, and the project outcomes.
Provide support and guidance to the mechanical engineers.

Role Summary

  • Work on a diverse programme
  • Develop junior mechanical engineers.
  • Develop new ways of working that focus on delivering outcomes, rather than outputs, to reduce carbon, protect and increase natural capital, address climate change, and embrace innovations and new digital technologies.
  • Grow your professional internal and external networks with a multitude of partners across the sector
  • Broaden your skills by working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary project teams, Project Managers, Quantity Surveyors, Procurement, Enabling and Construction Managers.

Role Accountabilities
Project Delivery

  • Collaborate with other discipline engineers and manage quality through the design workflow review to achieve time, cost and quality standards.
  • Ensure that the mechanical deliverables are produced to the required standards and specifications.
  • Check mechanical and hydraulic systems, including pumping systems, plant, building services, and ensure they have been completed to an appropriate level of detail and compliance.
  • Check integrated supplier packages and 3D models to ensure quality, safety, and technical standards are adhered to, including meeting DSEAR compliance.
  • Check mechanical documentation such as basis of design, specifications, work scope and schedules.
  • Review construction site design queries and change requests, to ensure quick but accurate responses and/or the design remains suitable.
  • Support the Senior Design Manager and Design Managers to forecast and allocate resources on a best for task basis.
  • Support the Project Design Managers and other engineering disciplines to plan and manage the design delivery, and to manage stakeholders regarding mechanical design acceptance.
  • Seek support and direction from the Principal Mechanical Engineer.
  • Provide knowledge for the creation and reviewing of supplier contracts and deliverables.

Health & Safety (CDM)

  • Drive excellence in health, safety and welfare for mechanical engineering.
  • Ensure designs comply with all relevant mechanical standards and regulations, including hazardous areas DSEAR compliance (if trained and competent).
  • Input into Construction Design Management (CDM) meetings and support preparing information for inclusion in the design risk assessment and Pre-Construction Information.
  • Develop designer alerts where lessons are to be learnt.
    Personal & Team Development
  • Support the Senior Design Manager to recruit Senior Mechanical Engineers and Mechanical Engineers.
  • Undertake line management responsibilities for the Senior Mechanical Engineers, including managing performance.
  • Be a role model for and actively mentor and develop graduates, apprentices and early career members of the mechanical team.
  • Support the Principal Mechanical Engineer to improve mechanical design, by participating in the mechanical team meetings, sharing lessons learnt and undertaking continuous improvement.
  • Where appropriate, support the wider Anglian Water business (e.g. HAZOP chair, ROV facilitator, Technical Standards Peer Review, emergency response to incidents).
    Transformation
  • Maintain awareness of industry changes, best practice and innovations, and support the Principal Mechanical Engineer to develop improved ways of working.
  • Embrace new digital technologies to achieve the goal of fully attributed 3D models.
  • Support your team to reduce carbon and increase natural capital within designs.
  • Support establishing and embedding Standard Product assets and procedures.

Qualifications & Experience

  • An engineering, or equivalent, degree, or be able to demonstrate a degree level of ability through relevant experience.
  • Preferably Chartered, or working towards Chartered status.
  • Experience of water-sector assets and capital projects.
  • Knowledge of all relevent regulations, standards and codes of practice
  • Experience of mentoring and coaching of junior engineers.
  • Ideally, but not essential, experience of a Design & Build environment.

Competencies & Skills
Leadership

  • Integrity - Fosters within their team compliance with the organisations business ethics, a respectful attitude to others, positive action to build our reputation, and integrity.
  • Communication & Collaboration - Challenges and addresses poor collaboration and promotes effective communication to all stakeholders.
  • Emotional Intelligence - Demonstrates leadership with emotional intelligence by understanding the needs and views of others. Champions diversity and inclusion.
  • Development & Learning - Comprehensive understanding of the development and learning needs within the team and actively defines training plans to address competency gaps.
  • Decision Making - Provides support and guidance to others for making complex decisions. Understands the impact of their decisions and takes full responsibility.
    Management
  • People Management - Provides line management for a team and is highly regarded by their team.
  • Engineering Management - Manages engineering activities for a team to achieve efficient engineering outputs.
  • Quality - Ensures that quality procedures are robustly followed and identifies improvements.
  • Risk and Opportunities - Develops and implements strategies to mitigate risks and realise opportunities across multiple projects.
    Delivery
  • Affordability - Actively contributes to the overall portfolio affordability.
  • Delivery on Time - Actively drives design activities to achieve delivery on time by collaborating with all relevant stakeholders.
  • Sustainability - Champions sustainability in all aspects of engineering design.
    Health & Safety
  • CDM - Ensures that designers within their teams are aware of their CDM responsibilities.
  • Health, Safety and Welfare - Provides leadership in health, safety and welfare.
    Technical
  • Design Production - Champions good practice in engineering designs including exercising independent judgement.
  • Desing Output - Ensures that the Engineering documents, drawings and 3D models are produced to the required standard.
  • Innovation - Champions and delivers innovation concepts to improve efficiency within their teams and portfolio.
Maintenance Engineer
T&K Associates Ltd
Ashby-de-la-Zouch
In office
Junior - Mid
£45,000
TECH-AGNOSTIC ROLE

T&K Associates have an exciting opportunity for a Maintenance Engineer to join our Client in Ashby-de-la-Zouch on a permanent basis!

As the Maintenance Engineer, you will carry out planned predictive and preventative maintenance on a range of production machinery as well as responding to breakdowns to minimise changes to site operations.

Maintenance Engineer Job Benefits;

  • £45k per annum plus excellent annual bonus scheme
  • Monday to Thursday 7am to 4pm and Friday 7am to 1pm
  • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Medical insurance
  • Healthshield cash plan
  • Onsite subsidised restaurant
  • Free On-site Parking
  • Close to amenities and motorway road links

Maintenance Engineer Job Details;

  • Provide a maintenance service which covers electrical and mechanical disciplines
  • Manage routine, preventative, and planned maintenance of the machinery
  • Perform modifications and installations
  • Respond to emergency breakdowns including finding and fixing faults to reduce downtime
  • Maintain a good standard of housekeeping
  • Be responsible for the care and safekeeping of all tools and materials
  • Maintain the engineering store
  • Supervise on-site contractors and arrange work permits
  • Work to heights of approximately 12 meters
  • Complete any other associated tasks as required

Maintenance Engineer Person Specification;

  • Previous working experience within a maintenance environment
  • Mechanical and Electrical fault-finding diagnosis and resolution
  • Ability to work on single and three phase machinery
  • Electrical 17th/ Electrical 18th Edition test and inspection is desirable
  • Have an understanding of Atex and its limitations is desirable
  • Basic welding and fabrication experience is desirable
  • Experience of SEMA-compliant racking inspections and maintenance is desirable
  • IPAF or working at heights equivalent is desirable

This is an excellent opportunity to join a great Company. If you are interested in the above role and would like to join a friendly team, then please give us a call at T&K Associatesto hear more!

Applications Engineer
Logistex
Kettering
Hybrid
Mid - Senior
Private salary
TECH-AGNOSTIC ROLE

Are you an expert in CAD software like AutoCAD, SolidWorks, or Inventor?

Have you designed material handling systems and created technical drawings from first principles?

Why join us?

  • • Competitive salary
  • • Hybrid working flexibility
  • • Career development and training opportunities
  • • Member of an Employee -owned trust
  • • Work on high -impact automation and software projects
  • • Supportive and collaborative team culture

What will you be doing?

  • • Support the Solution Design Team with project development
  • • Lead the preparation of technical solution drawings and equipment applications
  • • Stay up to date with technical developments and apply current technologies
  • • Collaborate with Solutions and Engineering teams to refine designs
  • • Ensure all drawings meet industry standards and company guidelines
  • • Manage drawing files, version control, and component libraries
  • • Mentor junior Solution Engineers in systems design and specification

What do we need from you?

  • • Bachelor s degree or 5+ years in material handling system design
  • • Expert in CAD software (AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Inventor, or similar)
  • • Strong understanding of material handling processes and tolerances
  • • Ability to create concept designs and precise technical drawings
  • • Excellent problem -solving and attention to detail
  • • Ability to manage multiple projects independently
  • • Knowledge of structural analysis and load calculations

Apply now to join Logistex as a CAD Engineer and make a lasting impact!

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Frequently asked questions
Leicester offers a range of Hardware Engineer roles including design engineers, test engineers, and embedded systems specialists across various industries such as manufacturing, automotive, and technology.
Typically, employers look for candidates with a degree in electrical or electronic engineering, computer engineering, or a related field. Practical experience with hardware design, testing, and prototyping is highly valued.
Yes, there are entry-level positions available, including graduate schemes and junior hardware engineering roles. These positions often provide on-the-job training and mentorship.
Enhancing your skills in hardware development tools, staying updated with industry trends, gaining relevant certifications, and building a strong portfolio of projects can significantly boost your employability.
The average salary for Hardware Engineers in Leicester typically ranges from £30,000 to £50,000 per year, depending on experience, specialization, and the employer.