ROXEL (UK ROCKET MOTORS) LIMITED
Roxel is an Anglo-French Company that designs, develops and manufactures a range of solid propellant rocket motors for use in tactical missiles. Its operations are spread across several sites in the UK and France and it has an annual turnover of about £150M and nearly 700 staff. The UK operations are entirely based at Summerfield, Kidderminster
OVERVIEW & SCOPE OF ROLE
The design department designs new and modified rocket motors and related systems.Analysis of rocket motor designs, including: Ballistic performance prediction and modelling, propellant charge and hardware stress analysis, and the provision of documentation service. Maintenance of design manuals and similar knowledge databases.
The role holder conducts stress analysis duties.
The role holder will take a Principle or Senior title and will be the structural technical authority for several rocket motor products. Specific areas of work will mainly include conducting Finite Element Analysis (baseline software is Abaqus) of rocket motor hardware (metals, rubber/rigid insulants, bondlines) and the energetic propellant charge. Therefore, knowledge of material science and engineering would be advantageous, including non-linear viscoelasticity.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES & REPONSIBILITIES
Technical Responsibilities
Analysis of new and existing rocket motor systems such as motor hardware and propellant charge structural and thermal analysis using FEA software.
The use of various software and programming techniques, including: Abaqus, Altair-Hyperworks, Fortran and Matlab.
Rheological analysis of material testing results and providing advice to the technical community for validation and verification of FEA models.
Development of motor structural test plans and involvement in the delivery and assessment of the structural testing results.
Responsible as the structural performance technical authority aspects of assigned projects, including supporting project customer meetings, project investigations, design reviews, and corresponding customer stress engineers.
Deliver key project documentation including, structural analysis and structural test plans and reports and structural design records.
Contribution to qualifications report using expert knowledge.
Responsible for keeping updated with industry technical innovations and changes, building on their expertise, and acting as the technical lead of new technology research programmes, and the on-time delivery and cost of the programme and interfacing with the customer.
Schedule, plan and prioritise their work and time to ensure on time delivery of tasks.
Responsible for the update and maintenance of job list and the associated on-time delivery metric.
Identify risks and issues that may impact delivery, including time, quality and cost, and communicate solutions with the Design Manager.
out any other duties that may reasonably be required in line with the main duties outlined above
EXPERIENCE & BACKGROUND
Qualifications:
Essential Qualifications
- Educated to degree level in an engineering discipline such as Mechanical, Aerospace or Structural or another related discipline such as Material Science.
Experience:
Essential Experience
- Use of ABAQUS software in an professional or academic environment.
- Proficiency with the Microsoft office package, particularly Word, Excel and Access.
Desirable Experience
- Material science knowledge (In particular composites, viscoelastic materials, adhesives)
- Experience with CAD modelling and Altair-Hyperworks
Person Specification
- Interest in advanced engineering and science
- Problem-solving skills
- Critical thinking
- Decision making
- Proficient and confident communicator
- Interpersonal skills
- Self-motivation
- The ability to commit to delivering tasks on time
- Professional work output standard
- Team player
- Ability to multitask