Graduate / Junior Mechanical Engineer
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- WhereOrwell
- Posted8 October 2026
Graduate / Junior Mechanical Engineer – Hands-On R&D / Product Development
Salary: £28,000 – £38,000 DOE
Location: Orwell, Cambridge
From Concept to Creation – Hands-On Mechanical Engineering
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.
If you're passionate about practical engineering, we want to hear from you!
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.
What You'll Be Doing
- 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.
What this role involves
General background for mechanical engineer roles. This listing’s own employer, location, pay and hours are shown above.
- Turn research ideas into technical plans, using computer-aided design software
- Test mechanical systems and analyse data to make improvements
- Assess the safety of mechanical machinery and equipment
- Typical pay (UK)
- £28,000 starting · £60,000 experienced
- Typical hours
- 37 to 40 a week
Career background: National Careers Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
Applications open on Accora's own careers site.