Graduate / Junior Mechanical Engineer

Are you a mechanically minded graduate or apprentice-trained engineer who loves getting your hands dirty and actually building things?

Perhaps you enjoy restoring cars, building robots, fabricating components or working on your own engineering projects.

We're expanding our R&D team at Accora, offering an exciting opportunity to combine mechanical design with hands-on engineering, taking innovative products from initial concept through to fully functioning prototypes.

• →Develop new products from initial concepts through to working prototypes.
• →Utilise Solidworks for mechanical components, mechanisms and assemblies.
• →Get hands-on in the workshop, building, assembling, modifying and testing designs.
• →Work with sheet metal, fabrication equipment, welders, CNC machines, mills, lathes and hand tools.
• →Solve practical engineering challenges through testing and experimentation.
• →Work alongside experienced engineers, developing both design and practical workshop skills.

• Must have the right to work in the UK without requiring visa sponsorship, now or in the future.
• Due to our site location, a valid UK driving licence and access to your own transport are preferred.

We're looking for graduates or apprentice-trained engineers with a genuine passion for practical, hands-on mechanical engineering.

Qualifications are valuable, but we're equally interested in what you've actually built, repaired, modified or created.

• Car or motorcycle restoration – Rebuilding, repairing or modifying vehicles and components.
• Fabrication and welding – Sheet metal, MIG/TIG welding, cutting, forming or general metalworking.
• Personal engineering projects – Building robots, go-karts, machinery or other mechanical creations.
• Workshop experience – Using lathes, mills, CNC machines, hand tools or fabrication equipment.
• University projects – Formula Student, prototyping or practical design-and-build projects.
• Apprenticeships or employment – Mechanical assembly, machining or fabrication.

• A mechanically focused degree, engineering apprenticeship or relevant junior engineering background.
• Demonstrable hands-on mechanical experience through work, education, hobbies or personal projects.
• Confidence using hand tools and a good understanding of mechanical principles.
• A practical, logical approach to problem-solving.
• A positive, proactive attitude and genuine enthusiasm to learn and develop.

• Mechanical linkages, moving mechanisms and assemblies.
• Sheet metal fabrication, welding or machining.
• CNC equipment, milling, turning or workshop machinery.
• SolidWorks or other 3D CAD software.
• Prototyping, testing and design for manufacture.

We offer full in-house training and development.

Your practical mindset, mechanical aptitude and willingness to learn are what matter most.

• £28,000 – £38,000 salary depending on experience.
• 25 days' holiday plus public holidays.
• Private medical healthcare cover.
• Interesting engineering projects from concept through to completion.
• Career progression within a growing company that promotes from within.
• A supportive team environment that values your ideas and input.