# Mechanical Design Engineer

With over 100 years of engineering excellence, Ridgway Machines is a world-leading manufacturer of precision taping and winding machines for the electrical, energy, and oil & gas industries. Recently acquired by Tokamak Energy to accelerate superconducting technology, we're involved in some of the world's most exciting engineering projects-including ITER's Fusion Power Plant and CERN's Large Hadron Collider. From innovative designs to global customer support, we deliver expert solutions for clients worldwide. Based at Meridian Business Park in Leicester, we're a skilled team of specialist engineers working at the cutting edge of power generation machinery. Ridgway Machines is seeking a Mechanical Design Engineer with proven experience designing machinery, mechanisms and moving mechanical systems. This is not a general mechanical design role. We are specifically looking for engineers who have designed machines, mechanical equipment, rotating machinery, automation systems or other complex moving assemblies and who can demonstrate ownership of those designs. If your background is primarily focused on analysis, simulation, CFD, aerodynamics, structural design or static equipment design

- **Id**: 3966776
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ridgway-machines-mechanical-design-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T14:32:41Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T07:46:13Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4860
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual leave, Relocation assistance
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Industrial Machinery, Precision Engineering

## Company

- **Id**: 4416061
- **Name**: Ridgway Machines
- **Domain**: ridgwayeng.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ridgwayeng>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

## Salary

- **Min**: 40000
- **Max**: 60000
- **Currency**: GBP
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 80141

## Technologies

- **SolidWorks** — Optional: no
- **GDPR** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T14:32:41Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 25
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 80141
- **Is top pay**: no

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