Job Title: Mechanical Design Lead
Location: Cowes – Isle of Wight or Broad Oak. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Salary: Up to £85,700 depending on skills and experience. Part time & accruing hours available. Please let us know if you would like to discuss these options
Put yourself into a dynamic Mechanical Design Lead role at the forefront of real world demands in the defence industry. Alongside ensuring operational excellence for our existing products, there will be the opportunity to develop next generation radar products to counter emerging threats and contribution to our strategy for new technology. Your new day-to-day will be exciting and diverse by applying the principles of Engineering across the entire engineering development lifecycle as you join in developing radar systems used by those who serve and protect us.
What you’ll be doing:
• Provide a depth and breadth of expert knowledge gained through substantial work experience to apply principles and concepts of systems engineering, ISO 15288 and own specialist mechanical engineering expertise to development or problem resolution of a complex shipborne structure with integrated sensor configurations
• Provide technical and business leadership and may lead several engineering teams, including management and possible control of costs associated with the team activity
• Analyse, define, evaluate, plan and deliver solutions to meet programme, business and customer requirements
• Interface with customers, suppliers and other functions and will act as an ambassador for engineering to these groups
• Assist with development of engineering capability and skills and monitor professional development of engineers to meet future discipline requirements
Your skills and experience:
• Subject matter expertise in Mechanical Engineering: Structures and Finite Element Analysis (particularly Static and Dynamic Shock and Vibration) or equivalent experience
• Ability to generate requirements and translate concepts into production-ready designs
• Relevant experience/knowledge of CAD and Mechanical Engineering Analysis, Modelling and Simulation tools
• Expe