Design Engineer / Project Coordinator
Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Uk
My work involved job pricing, liaising with customers by providing competitive pricing, approval drawings and short lead times before moving on to produce full works drawings and overseeing the products production. I kept production times short, through minimisation of labour resulting from good planning, accurate drawings, and low production costsSkills & Abilities:CAD • Proficient with Solidworks 2012 - 2014 and Draftsight, limited knowledge of AutoDesk Inventor.• Good… Show more My work involved job pricing, liaising with customers by providing competitive pricing, approval drawings and short lead times before moving on to produce full works drawings and overseeing the products production. I kept production times short, through minimisation of labour resulting from good planning, accurate drawings, and low production costsSkills & Abilities:CAD • Proficient with Solidworks 2012 - 2014 and Draftsight, limited knowledge of AutoDesk Inventor.• Good working knowledge of Sheet Metal and Weldments within Solidworks.• Alter existing drawings to suit new customer needs in shortest time possible.• Creation, from scratch of full detailed works drawings in 2D and 3D.• Suggest and implement alterations to designs and components to reduce production time and cut labour costs.CNC• CNC Plasma Cutting experience. (SwiftCut 8’x4’ with water table, extraction and DTHC using Hypertherm 45A).• Profficient with SheetCam and Mach3 CNC software.• Reasonable knowledge of manually editing of G-CODES.• Experience cutting Mild Steel, Stainless Steel and Aluminium up to thicknesses of 10mm.Welding• MIG welding with wire gauges from 0.8mm. Steel Thickness from 1mm to 10mm.• TIG welding skills on thicknesses from 1mm.• Both MIG and TIG in vertical up, and overhead. Also experienced with TIG on pipe work.Sheet Metal• Experience with Stainless Steel, Mild Steel and Aluminium.• Machines: 100 tonne Press Brake, Hand Folder, Initial Pinch Rolls, Guillotine, Fly Press, Spot Welder.• Pattern Development skills such as parallel line, radial line and triangulation.• Shaping and Cutting sheet metal from 1mm.Fabrication• Experience building frames and structures to engineering drawings and strict specifications• Work to tight tolerances usually ±1mm.• Squaring up of frames using clamps, oxy-acetylene, strategic welding order.• Careful cleaning up of components and frames with angle grinder for powder coating. Show less