Job Title: Mechanical Engineer
Division: EnSci, Weir Minerals
Location: Bangalore
Purpose of Role: To support Weir Minerals global business units, including Weir Minerals Canada, by delivering high‑quality mechanical engineering and system design solutions across brownfield, retrofit, and project engineering activities, ensuring compliance with safety, quality, and customer requirements.
Why choose Weir:
Be part of a global organization dedicated to building a better future: At Weir, the growing world depends on us. It depends on us constantly reinventing, quickly adapting and continually finding better, faster, more sustainable ways to access the resources it needs to thrive. And it depends on each of us doing the best work of our lives. It’s a big challenge – but it is exciting.
An opportunity to grow your own way: Everything moves fast in the dynamic world of Weir. This creates opportunities for us to take on new challenges, explore new areas, learn, progress and excel. Best of all, there is no set path that our people must take. Instead, everyone is given the support and freedom to tailor-make their own career and do the best work of their lives.
Feel empowered to be yourself and belong: Weir is a welcoming, inclusive place, where each individual’s contribution is recognized and all employees are encouraged to innovate, collaborate and be themselves. We continually focus on people and their wellbeing. We believe in fairness and choose to be honest, transparent and authentic in everything we do.
Key Responsibilities:
Safety First: Demonstrate 100% commitment to our zero harm behaviors in support of our drive towards developing a world class safety culture.
Design and develop mechanical equipment, subsystems, and engineering solutions to meet customer and project requirements.
Perform engineering calculations required for project execution and design validation.
Create manufacturing drawings, assembly drawings, general arrangement drawings, and Engineering Bills of Materials (BOMs).
Ensure all deliverables comply with design requirements, specifications, standards, schedules, and best industry practices.
Perform quality checks on own and peer engineering drawings and technical documents.
Adhere to established engineering workflows, SOPs, and processes to meet delivery, quality, and productivity KPIs.
Diagnose issues in existing equipment or systems and propose practical engineering solutions.
Identify design gaps and opportunities for optimisation and continuous improvement.
Support brownfield, retrofit, and upgrade projects, including projects based on scan data.
Collaborate with sales, application engineering, manufacturing, purchasing, and other cross‑functional teams.
Support technical leads and managers in standardisation and engineering efficiency initiatives.
Respond to routine customer technical queries and escalate complex issues appropriately.
Take independent engineering decisions or work with minimal guidance while proposing solutions for greenfield and brownfield scenarios.
Estimate engineering effort and level of detail required based on the project stage and complexity.
Guide designers in developing required models and drawings.
Support resolution of field issues and customer escalations within defined timelines.
Review and interpret FEA results and implement design changes under the guidance of Lead Engineers.
Job Knowledge/Education and Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with up to 6 years of relevant experience.
Strong working knowledge of CAD tools, preferably UG NX, and PLM systems, preferably Teamcenter.
Experience or exposure to brownfield and retrofit projects, including projects based on scan data.
Proficient in engineering calculations with experience or exposure to Finite Element Analysis (FEA).
Familiarity with design of support structures for equipment and engineered products.
Knowledge of mineral processing equipment such as pumps, cyclones, valves, and related systems.
Good understanding of enterprise systems such as SAP, Salesforce, and project/program management tools.
Awareness of recent trends and advanced manufacturing methods and technologies.
Strong communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross‑functional teams.
Proficient in MS Office tools.
Founded in 1871, Weir is a world leading engineering business with a purpose to make mining operations smarter, more efficient and sustainable. Thanks to Weir’s technology, our customers can produce essential metals and minerals using less energy, water and waste at lower cost. With the increasing need for metals and minerals for climate change solutions, Weir colleagues are playing their part in powering a low carbon future. We are a global family of 11,000 uniquely talented people in over 60 countries, inspiring each other to do the best work of our lives.
For additional information about what it is like to work at Weir, please visit our Career Page and LinkedIn Life Page.
Weir is committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
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