Introduction
Saab in UK is growing rapidly, with over 600 colleagues across eight sites. We bring together Swedish heritage and British expertise to drive innovation in areas such as software engineering, underwater robotics, radars, AI, and armed forces training. Joining Saab in UK means contributing to the security and resilience of society while building a career with real scope for personal and professional growth.
The role
This role is part of Saab Bluebear Business in Bedfordshire. Your role as a Mechanical Design Engineer (Aero) will be to support Head of Engineering on multidisciplinary design challenges involved in the development of unmanned systems. This represents an exciting opportunity to provide technical leadership of innovative products including requirement management, design, integration, manufacturing and testing.
Key Responsibilities
1. Day-to-day CAD design and management of multidisciplinary design requirements.
2. Experienced solidworks user, solid modelling, surfacing, assemblies, detailing, BoM creation.
3. First-pass analysis (basic FEA, basic CFD) of implementable design solutions using analysis suites as part of CAD packages (preferably solidworks).
4. Technical management of specific project WPs including task allocation and resource management.
5. Define the design, integration and test activities during deve...