TISICS Farnborough, England, United Kingdom — 1 day ago.
Company Overview
TISICS is a small management‑owned business with material and processing technology that is of potential future benefit primarily to the Space and Aerospace sectors. The company designs and manufactures net shape metal and continuous silicon carbide fibre reinforced composite components comprising titanium and aluminium alloys. Our advanced materials offer significant advantages both to the Aerospace sector in reducing the weight of platforms for environmental benefit and to the Space sector with rapid growth in communications, climate and planetary exploration applications. In order to address these exciting market developments and increased customer interest in our technology, we are growing and are looking for motivated and inspiring people to join the team.
Materials
* Fibre (Silicon Carbide, Alumina Ceramic, Carbon Coating, and Tungsten Core, plus variety of chemicals and gases involved in the manufacturing process)
* Composites with the fibre and a variety of matrix materials (Titanium, Aluminium) and tooling, which is primarily steel based.
Project Lead Engineer – Aerospace/Mechanical
We are looking for an experienced Technical Lead Engineer with a proven track record of technical leadership in an engineering, production and development environment. The role requires strong customer relationship skills and a good understanding of the Aerospace sector, as the role will include working with new customers within that market.
The projects will develop and qualify critical structural components for implementation in future aircraft platforms, based on TISICS advanced metal matrix composite and fibre technologies. We use novel manufacturing methods using diffusion bonding and also include dissimilar material joining. A strong focus on design‑for‑manufacture and production scale‑up will be a key part of the role. The Technical Lead Engineer will be the Project Design Authority, liaising with the company Chief Engineer and relevant Technical Experts.
The role will include applying conventional aerospace manufacturing and design methodologies to TISICS novel processes to ensure an optimum design for manufacture is achieved which maximises the performance benefits of the material technologies whilst meeting the critical aerospace safety and economic considerations.
Duties and Responsibilities
* Engineering leadership within projects.
* Main technical point of contact for the customer, working closely with the Project Manager and component delivery team.
* Working with Project Manager to plan engineering tasks and resources.
* Engineering work package management during projects to ensure delivery on‑time, on‑cost and on‑quality.
* Leading engineering and technical staff for projects, working collaboratively with the project, production and quality teams.
* Review and approval of all engineering aspects of projects, in liaison with the chief engineer and relevant technical experts.
* Leading the mechanical design of the products, including design, analysis, verification and test through all phases of projects to ensure compliance to customer requirements.
* Leading the design‑for‑manufacture activities, in liaison with the production team.
* Leading the preparation of all technical aspects of design reviews, including documentation and data packs.
* Liaising with suppliers, customers and manufacturing/development staff.
Qualifications and Skills
* Qualified to degree level (BEng/BSc) in mechanical engineering or similar degree.
* More than 5 years industrial experience in a relevant environment with a good understanding of Aerospace technical and qualification standards.
* Experience in design, development and delivery projects in a relevant industry.
* Experience of developing components with a focus on design‑for‑manufacture.
* Materials engineering knowledge would be an advantage.
* Demonstrated technical leadership.
What we can offer
* Competitive salary: negotiable, depending on specific experience and qualifications relevant to the role.
* Retirement Plan: Pension scheme to help secure your future.
* 20 days holiday + bank holidays.
Want to hear more about what it’s like to work at TISICS? Reach out to our team at talent@tisics.co.uk.
The candidate shall be eligible to work in the UK and hold a Skilled Workers visa, if required. For all successful candidates, TISICS will undertake background security checks. As part of this, we will need to confirm your identity, employment history and address history for the past five years as well as your nationality, immigration status and criminal record.
TISICS does not accept any CVs received from recruitment agencies where terms of business have not been signed and will not consider or agree to payment of any recruiter fee under these circumstances. In the event that speculative CVs are submitted by recruitment agencies, we reserve the right to contact these candidates directly and consider them for current/future vacancies without any financial obligation to the recruitment agency in question.
For further information about this position please contact us and we will endeavour to get back to you as soon as possible.
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