Product Development Engineer
£38.25ph umbrella (Inside IR35)
12 Months
Purpose of the role
You will provide engineering support to the Artillery team to ensure the delivery of projects within the team. Working with the Portfolio Manager and reporting to the Senior Product Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring that the programmes/projects include appropriate engineering development activity to achieve a robust solution. The activities will be planned with robust estimates for completion with sound risk mitigation built in. The position will be primarily based at the BAE Systems Land UK site in Glascoed, Monmouthshire on a four-day working pattern within a hybrid-working environment, occasional travel to other customer, manufacturing and test and evaluation sites will be necessary.
Core Duties
Typical Duties include:
• Supporting the product design and systems engineering activities for new and legacy products
• Generating Safety Case Paperwork and Technical documentation relating to the service use of products
• Conducting and managing product and process design, development, test, manufacture and evaluation activities. Ensuring that safety remains the highest priority in the working practices of yourself and the team
• Conducting and managing trials in a safe and suitable manner, from planning through to trials execution to reporting and presenting conclusions
• Application of effective Engineering Governance throughout the product development lifecycle supporting design reviews from concept to disposal
• Configuration and maintenance of Engineering Bills of Materials for products
• Product design and evaluation / down selection e.g. Pugh Matrices, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (DFMEA)
• Support the generation of costed proposals for external customers
Safety:
? The role holder is responsible for taking reasonable care of their own health and safety ensuring high standards for safety, health and environment (SHE) in our organisation are maintained. This includes co-operating and following all reasonable instruction, information and training reporting work-related hazards or incidents and using all equipment for the purpose intended. More detailed responsibilities are captured within the Company Health & Safety Policy (759/OF/016) and the Company Environmental Policy (759/OF/029).
? The role holder is responsible for taking reasonable care of their own health and safety, ensuring high standards for safety, health and environment (SHE) in our organisation are maintained, understood, implemented and followed by their team. This includes co-operating and following all reasonable instruction, information and training reporting work-related hazards or incidents, using all equipment for the purpose intended, setting high standards for SHE, leading by example and establishing the expectation that others do the same promoting risk awareness, ensuring that risks are assessed and adequately controlled, encouraging the team to report incidents and defects and make suggestions to improve SHE standards and ensuring actions to address SHE issues are prioritised and resourced appropriately. More detailed responsibilities are captured within the Company Health & Safety Policy (759/OF/016) and the Company Environmental Policy (759/OF/029).
Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications
Strong technical writing skills: reports, specifications and technical documentation
• Experience of product design analysis techniques (Pugh, DFMEA, FTA)
• Experience of process design analysis techniques (PCP, PFMEA)
• Knowledge of munitions design and manufacture
• Safety Management - IOSH Managing Safety/NEBOSH Certificate
• Experience and knowledge of manufacturing in a high hazard environment
• A working knowledge of Systems Engineering and Engineering design
• Safety Case experience for product qualification evidence gathering