Design Engineer

Required Experience :

• 5+ years relevant working experience.

We are seeking a hands-on mechanical design engineer to join our team. If you are passionate about mechanical engineering design, committed to quality and safety, and have expertise in design from defining the user need, through the design process up to manufacturing and commissioning of the design, we invite you to apply and contribute to the success of our Air Cooling Unit (ACU) Business Unit. Join us and make a tangible impact!

The ACU business unit focuses on the roll-out of our mobile air cooling units (ACU’s) at mining clients to enable operations in remote underground hotspots. M-Tech Industrial patented this product, is the OEM, and does in field maintenance and service, and our footprint is increasing throughout the platinum and gold mines in South Africa and starting to expand abroad. We are looking for a dynamic individual to assist with the mechanical and system design engineering needs. The successful applicant will be based in Potchefstroom.

Duties and Responsibilities :

o Ventilation and cooling demand calculations.

o Refrigeration system design, optimisations, modifications and enhancements (change of refrigerant, change of compressor, change of duty, mechanical component and material changes, etc.)

o System integration of mobile refrigeration unit with mine infrastructure and auxiliary systems.

o Component, materials and instrumentation selection.

o Define maintenance and service requirements, measurements, checks and specifications and train technicians and mine personnel on maintenance and service requirements.

o Develop quality control procedures and checks from manufacturing to commissioning.

o Fault finding as well as failure and root cause analyses.

o Responsible for CAD manufacturing drawings and design documentation and manuals.

o Product modification and enhancement through M-Tech’s Engineering Change process (ECP).

o Need identification and new product design

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Desired Experience & Qualification

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