Junior Design Engineer

At Sandvik Rock Processing Solutions (“SRP”), we’re passionate about development and advanced technology, and we always aim to offer the best possible experience for our customers in a sustainable way. It’s a mission that takes commitment, but as an industry leader we aim for nothing but excellence in everything we do.

We are looking for a ambitious motivated and innovative Junior Design Engineer to join our team.

The role will report into the Design Office Manager.  The role will be based from our offices in Spartan, Kempton Park, Johannesburg.

Purpose of the role:

• Develop and design products, equipment and tools to be able to produce product that meets high quality requirements and performance standards. Analyses equipment specifications and process requirements to conceive a practical design.

The job responsibilities:

• Reviews product development requirements for compatibility with methods to determine cost and schedules.
• Integrates equipment and material capabilities to meet module target specifications and technology target specifications.
• Responsible for handing over method/process and equipment to production.
• Utilizes CAD (Computer Aided Design) or CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) systems to model new designs and produce detailed engineering drawings.
• Specifies precise new product functional requirements; designs, tests and integrates components to produce final designs; and evaluates the design's overall effectiveness, cost, reliability and safety.
• Designs, develops, executes and evaluates fitness-for-use testing, product specifications and process validation plans; creates and reviews material part specifications and bills of materials.
• Collaborates with internal manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers and product.
• Ensures compliance with established industry safety and design standards and guidelines.
• Generating of mass estimates of products for tender proposals.
• Responsible to generate technical data packs for jobs, on time, containing detail drawings and engineering bill of materials (EBOM). Ensure all tolerances, machining, welding, material treatment etc. specifications are specified.
• Required to travel and meet with customers when needed. This includes taking measurements on-site.
• Ensure that all work conform to the required in-house modelling and detailing standards.
• Ensure sufficient checking of drawings and BOM’s to eliminate NCR’s.
• Participate in generating new in-house technical standards and training material.
• Develop and maintain engineering calculations to assist in product design where needed.
• Responsible to make suggestions on how products can be improved in terms of quality, pricing, and performance.
• Assist other departments when needed. For instance, accompany site visits or support the engineering group with CAD models for FEA etc.
• Assist in developing and maintaining engineering first principle calculations when needed.
• Consult with Lead Designer and Design Office Manager on new or changed designs before processing as jobs.
• Responsible to maintain an accurate electronic drawing office file structure of jobs to assist in as-built management and full traceability.
• ETO and R&D resources can be shared across teams on a case-by-case basis to support both regional and global functions based on workload and agreement between departmental managers.
• Remote work limited, primarily office based.

Qualifications & Experience Requirements

• BTech. or BEng. Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• 0 to 2 years 3D CAD modelling and drafting experience in sheet metal fabrication industries including welding specifications. Preferably in Siemens NX or SolidEdge.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.

Other Requirements & Competencies

• Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment; adjusting effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements, or cultures.
• Effectively meet customer needs; building productive customer relationships; taking responsibility for customer satisfaction by providing world class engineering support.
• Clearly and succinctly conveying information and ideas to individuals and groups in a variety of situations; communicating in a focused and compelling way that drives others' thoughts and actions. Engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.
• Originating action to improve existing conditions and processes; identifying improvement opportunities; generating ideas and implementing solutions.
• Actively identifying new ideas for learning; regularly creating and taking advantage of learning opportunities; using newly gained knowledge and skill on the job and learning through their application.
• Actively participating as a member of a team to move the team toward the completion of goals.
• Taking prompt action to accomplish objectives; taking action to achieve goals beyond what is required; being proactive.
• Effectively managing one's time and resources to ensure that work is completely efficiently and timeously.
• To be able to work with numbers and figures and to subtract, add, multiply, divide, put together, classify or to get involved in any way of assessing numbers and figures at wide and diverse levels of difficulty or complexity and to produce an outcome or outcomes which are logical or could be seen/accepted to make sense.
• To be able to see or compare, or to determine which objects or ideas either belong or do not belong together on the basis of similarities or differences or on the basis of any other features or characteristics that justify the drawing of any distinction between entities or objects of any kind, origin or consequence
• Setting high standards of performance for self and others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed.

What is in it for you?

• We offer you an interesting role in an international business environment, extraordinary products, great colleagues, and opportunities for your professional development. At Sandvik, we believe that diversity of experience, perspective and background will lead to a better environment for our employees, our business and, thereby, our customers. Visit our stories hub, LinkedIn or Facebook to get to know us better.

Application

• Send your application as soon as possible as we will be evaluating candidates continuously, and no later than 06 June 2025.
• Read more about Sandvik Group and apply at home.sandvik/career,

About us:

• Sandvik Rock Processing Solutions is a business area within the Sandvik Group and a leading supplier of equipment, tools, parts, service and solutions for processing rock and minerals in the mining and construction industries. Application areas include crushing and screening, breaking and demolition.