Staff Engineer, Regional Engineering UK (Mechanical Engineering)

Location: Slough, England, United Kingdom; customer and site visits across the South of the UK are required.

Company

John Crane, a business of Smiths Group, provides mission-critical flow control solutions for energy and process industries, including mechanical seals, couplings, bearings, filtration systems, and predictive digital monitoring technologies.

What you will do

• Provide advanced technical support to customers, Sales, Aftermarket, and Service teams across the UK.
• Develop complex technical proposals and tailored engineering solutions based on customer specifications and operational requirements.
• Conduct field troubleshooting, product inspections, site surveys, root cause analysis, and technical investigations.
• Meet customers at site locations to resolve technical challenges and support customer satisfaction.
• Provide technical clarifications, calculations, engineering analysis, and problem resolution throughout customer projects and orders.
• Mentor less experienced engineers and collaborate with multidisciplinary stakeholders while ensuring compliance with quality, ethical, environmental, and health and safety requirements.

Requirements

• Degree-qualified in Mechanical Engineering or able to demonstrate equivalent professional experience and/or relevant qualifications.
• Extensive relevant engineering experience in an industrial or manufacturing environment, ideally involving rotating equipment.
• Broad engineering knowledge covering mechanical seals, couplings, fluid control systems, and filtration.
• Strong understanding of process equipment and industrial applications.
• Experience interpreting customer specifications and developing technical solutions.
• Working knowledge of 2D/3D CAD and drafting software, such as Solid Edge, and engineering analysis tools including FEA packages such as ANSYS.
• Ability to perform engineering calculations and technical evaluations, with hands-on experience in assembly, disassembly, fault finding, and root cause analysis.
• Experience in customer-facing environments and industrial plant settings.
• Strong customer focus, commercial awareness, technical report writing, communication, project management, organisation, and multidisciplinary collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Professional membership or chartered status, such as MIMechE or CEng.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with competitive compensation and benefits.
• Inclusive environment supported by employee resource groups including Veterans, Pride Network, Black Employee Network, Women@Work Network, and Neurodiversity.
• Recognition through the annual Smiths Excellence Awards and Smiths Day celebration.
• Commitment to equality, ethics, diversity, quality, and health and safety.

Hiring process

• Apply directly through the Smiths Group careers website; no payment is requested for interviews or testing.