Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
The Senior Mechanical Design Engineer will be part of a multidisciplinary team working on exciting defence and maritime projects.
Responsibilities
- Supporting the definition of Mechanical architecture, system and sub‑system requirements and their validation and verification.
- Support to developing, documenting and delivering viable mechanical solutions for complex systems using the company engineering toolsets.
- Creation and peer review of technical artefacts, including mechanical design documentation, design data packs, analysis, plans and procedures in accordance with our product development framework.
- Development of the project mechanical test solution, and test procedures to support the verification of the hardware.
- Supporting the mechanical integration, verification and acceptance testing collecting and presenting evidence as necessary.
- Prepare and present mechanical technical solutions and risks to stakeholders (internal and external).
- Provision of in‑service and production support to internal and external customers.
- May act in technical led role on specific projects or activities.
- Support the continuous improvement of the Mechanical Engineering function, including processes and tools.
- Adhere to the company’s mechanical engineering processes and procedures.
- Coaching and mentoring of more junior Engineers.
Experience needed
- Educated to Degree level or equivalent experience.
- Experience across the whole project lifecycle of developing mechanical solutions against design brief/requirements set.
- Experience in mechanical design and documentation using MCAD, MCAE, PLM and ERP toolsets (Solidworks, Creo, Autodesk Inventor, Windchill, IFS or similar).
- A good understanding of key mechanical engineering principles e.g. material selection, assembly techniques and manufacturing processes.
- Hands‑on experience of designing complex systems involving multiple engineering disciplines and understanding of associated challenges and risks.
- Successful delivery of reliable solutions to time‑scale and requirements.
- Experience of designing products in the Defence domain (preferably Maritime).
- Experience of using mechanical design analysis techniques and toolsets to evaluate different potential solutions e.g. trade‑studies, calculations, modelling and simulation.
- A team‑oriented individual that works collaboratively to achieve team goals.
- Ability to effectively prioritise and execute tasks in a deadline‑oriented environment.
Working
- The role is office/hybrid based with occasional travel to other company sites in the UK. Office site presence, anticipated 2/3 days onsite, depending on project needs.
- All applicants must be able to obtain Security Clearance and be a sole / dual British national.
Company overview
- Want to work for a successful business, who develop advanced specialist systems to deliver warfighting edge in the modern maritime and underwater battlespace?
- The company have a number of awards, most recently been named as an Award winner (Gold Award) in MoD Defence Employer Recognition Scheme!
Benefits
- Optional 9 day fortnight
- TOIL
- 1pm finish on a Friday
- Annual bonus
- 25 days holiday
- Christmas shut down.
- Option to buy or sell holiday.
- Option to purchase private health care, dental, critical illness etc via salary sacrifice.
- Reward hub - discounts at over 200 online stores
- 4 x annual salary life cover
Seniority level
Employment type
Job function
- Engineering, Design, and Manufacturing
Industries
- Engineering Services, Defense and Space Manufacturing, and Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
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