CAD Engineer

Our OEM Client based in Gaydon, is searching for a CAD Engineer to join their team, Inside IR35. This is a contract position until 31st March 2026.

Umbrella Pay Rate: £27.03 per hour.

The candidate will be involved in Computer Aided Design & Drafting (CAD/CAM/CAE) work focuses on the documentation, illustration, and digital modelling of engineering designs and processes including:

• Assessing engineering requirements and translating into technical blueprints, drawings, layouts, and simulation models using CAD/CAM/CAE software or applying standard CAD/CAM/CAE techniques to digitize, edit, and revise engineering drawings of components, parts, and assemblies.
• Customizing CAD/CAM/CAE software to model complex or unusual designs.
• Creating digital proto-types and conducting design simulations for purposes of verifying reliability/safety and optimizing engineering processes.
• Collaborating with product/manufacturing process engineers by recommending changes to component designs based on outcomes of digital proto-typing and design simulations.
• May provide materials lists and cost estimates.

Responsibilities typically include:

• Managing projects / processes, working independently with limited supervision.
• Coaching and reviewing the work of lower-level professionals.
• Problems faced are difficult and sometimes complex.

Specialization Match Note:

• Para-Professional incumbents typically work on less complex engineering designs and processes than Individual.
• Professionals and modify draft layouts/models created by engineers and CAD/CAM/CAE designers.