Graduate / Junior Design Engineer 2025

For over 140 years our products have helped ensure the safe, reliable operations of key industries. With a passion for precision and partnership, Celeros Flow Technology continues this heritage of high performance and dependability, providing mission critical, sustainable flow control solutions for our customers around the globe.

Celeros Flow Technology is looking for individuals with a voice and a vision. We embrace change, diversity and promote new ways of looking at old ideas. We seek talented professionals to join our world-class team of innovators in a global, collaborative & multi-cultural environment, where you will be challenged, supported, and inspired to be extraordinary.

Summary

Established in 1944, GD Engineering has gained a worldwide reputation for pioneering work in the design and manufacture of advanced pipeline access and pigging solutions. Serving the oil/gas, petrochemical and industrial processing sectors, as well as the emerging biofuels industry, GD Engineering are instrumental in helping our customers to maximize their investment in pipeline infrastructure by facilitating any necessary maintenance or upgrade work.

The Bandlock 2 Quick Opening Closures enables fast access (either vertically or horizontally) to vessels once they have been depressurized. This can be done without the need for any special tools whilst ensuring the complete safety for field operatives through a series of proprietary protection mechanisms. BL2 Closures can be supplied compatible for use on vessels with size range 6" to 100" nominal diameter to ASME pressure class ratings #150 to #2500.

Suitable for both onshore and offshore deployment, our Pig Signaling Solutions allow the accurate monitoring of pigs/scrapers while carrying out cleaning or inspection activities, so that the precise location of any potential problems can be determined.

The role

Primarily responsible for producing documentation for client comment/approval and manufacture of equipment.

Utilising technical knowledge, the successful applicant will be responsible for interpreting client specifications/data sheets/drawings to create data sheets, calculations, 3D assemblies/component parts, bills of materials and manufacturing drawings that satisfy the clients project needs, other internal departmental requirements, and support internal manufacturing processes.

The successful applicant will also be involved with Value Engineering and New Product Development projects for new and existing products.

We are looking for experienced engineers but also graduate mechanical engineers. Full training and development will be provided for the role.

Principle duties and responsibilities (essential functions)

• Contribute to the Engineering Team providing technical support and engineering design capability to the business.
• Create, check and approval of 3D models and layouts.
• Ensuring compliance with internal engineering standards, industry, and customer specifications.
• Familiar with the risks and hazards within the activities and processes of the role and procedures, practices, and measures in place to mitigate the risks.
• Helping team to achieve project deadlines, delivered with desired quality, cost and efficiency.
• Liaise with customers and suppliers worldwide on mechanical design matters, ensuring specification compliance, integrity of interfacing information and sound engineering practice is being applied.
• Maintenance of company standards relating to discipline.
• Perform pressure calculations in accordance with International Design Codes (ASME VIII Div 1 & 2, PD55000 etc).
• Provide support for any mechanical queries from sales team and production.
• Provision of General Arrangement Drawings.
• Responsible for performing engineering calculations required to accurately determine product size, capacity, and performance to meet required design parameters.
• Support Design standardization, process, tools, and calculations etc., to improve lead-times.
• Works to develop functional skills and advanced disciplines of self.
• All other duties as relevant to the post

Skills

• Communication and negotiating skills.
• Desire and ability to develop skills beyond current level of expertise.
• IT skills required for discipline specific software as a user.
• Relationship management and customer service skills.
• Team working ability and an attitude of collaboration, mentoring and flexibility.
• Time management and ability to adapt to change.
• Willingness and confidence to communicate (written and presentation) with a professional and knowledgeable approach and manner to all levels.

Education and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent based on related experience/training.
• Pressure Vessel knowledge and experience is most desirable.
• Minimum of 4 years’ experience unless applying for the role as a graduate engineer.
• Ability to demonstrate experience in undertaking mechanical engineering projects.
• Proficiency in Autodesk AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor. Experience with FEA through ANSYS is considered desirable.
• Ability to guide and train colleagues.
• Ability to set and hit personal, team and project deadlines.
• An active and valuable team participant who puts the team and business success before individual success.
• An interest in self-development.
• Familiar with materials used for forgings.
• Familiar with Oil & Gas customer specifications
• Flexibility to travel as required.
• Good interpersonal, communication and influencing skills.

You must have valid right to work in the UK to apply for this role.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Opportunities to develop
• Bonus
• 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays)
• Holiday buy and sell
• Pension
• Life Cover
• Employee Assistance Program
• Digital Benefits; Health, Wealth & Lifestyle

Physical demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Required daily to stand, sit, walk, talk, hear, and see (specific close vision abilities are required to perform computer work)
• Required occasionally to stoop, kneel, crouch and crawl
• Required daily to use hands and fingers and arms to reach (to operate a computer and telephone)
• Required occasionally to lift and/or move objects that are light to moderate
• Required occasionally to travel (usually by air or road so may be required to sit for extended periods)

Working conditions

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to work with moderate noise (i.e. business office with computers, phone, and printers, etc.)
• Ability to work in an open planned office / individual office
• Ability to sit at a computer terminal for extended periods
• Ability to sit in a car or on a plane for extended periods