Job Role:
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To undertake a defined range of detail design activities in line with all relevant processes and quality requirements, supplying advice and support to operations and other functions and ensuring defined objectives are achieved whilst continually maintaining quality and service requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
Operate within the functionality of the appropriate tools and techniques (e.g. Foran and CE) as directed by his/her supervisor.
Produce and develop designs in line with specifications and all quality and technical standards and carry out detail design appraisals in assigned areas to ensure all standards are maintained.
Carry out investigations into operational problems or developments and develop and prepare solutions, individually or as a member of a team.
Support the development of best practice to increase the capability, performance of tools and processes
To identify personal training requirements, skills gaps and development requirements in own discipline.
Keep up to date in relevant technical areas, develop skills and capabilities to be able to provide more effective services (seeking and sharing good practice and knowledge to continuously improve practices), and supply technical support and expertise to others as required.
Provide help and direction to less experienced team members to support both their effective working and their development.
Be cognisant of assigned budgets,
Advise/instruct apprentices and trainees of similar discipline in the technical content of work.
Perform self-verification of own tasks and undertake cross checking of other draughtspersons work as requested to ensure completeness and quality of information.
Answer Technical queries about his/her own work and that of subordinates within their level of knowledge and competency.
Act as a member of a technical team created to accomplish tasks of a specialist nature (e.g. Liaison Draughting team, best practice team).
Appreciates and can articulate the value of the engineering lifecycle and the relationship to the Lifecycle Management Process. Appreciates that there are technical reviews to ensure product viability.
Appreciates and can articulate the need to ensure that products are acceptably safe and that product and system safety assessments form part of the design process.
Has had some exposure to regulatory and statutory requirements of the product and understands potential liabilities.
Has an appreciation of the requirement that the environmental impact of our activities is sustainable in the long term.
Appreciates the need for a supportability engineering process to sustain the long term viability of the business. Understands that supportability goes beyond basic design, maintenance and operability requirements.
Key Attributes:
2 Years' experience in engineering or a defence or related industry
Understanding of LCM
Typically HNC/HND qualified, likely to be in a technology, engineering or science related discipline.
Eligible for EngTech
Appreciates and can articulate the value of the engineering lifecycle and the relationship to the Lifecycle Management Process. Appreciates that there are technical reviews to ensure product viability.
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