What you’ll be doing:
Providing expert Mechanical Engineering support for the design and development of new innovative designs encompassing fault finding, diagnostics and salvage of existing products. As a Principal Mechanical Engineer, you will have the ability to lead and provide technical direction to other Engineers/Technicians to develop innovative ideas into a detailed scheme including risk reduction and qualification testing as required. The Principal Mechanical Engineer will provide high quality service to customers, on time and within budget with confidence and with minimal management input with the ability to present the design detail directly to our high profile clients.
Role Responsibilities:
- Using product knowledge and advanced engineering understanding, generate design concepts and solutions from first principals to meet project and customer requirements. Using your expertise in sketches, hand calculations and associated data packs.
- Prepare and present concise Mechanical Development Plans, Design Scheme Data Packs and other engineering detail for internal review and in a client arena.
- Taking a Design Authority role in checking and approving datasets (drawings/MBD) ensuring adherence to required standards, reflecting design intent, alongside manufacture and inspection parts.
- Take ownership of the design risk, and identify, define and manage work packages to de-risk areas of the product design early on in the lifecycle.
- Validation and verification of requirements using appropriate tools (e.g. DOORS) and managing these through the engineering life cycle.
- Work collaboratively across all engineering disciplines, liaising with technical specialists as required.
- Manage the work of senior and junior mechanical engineers and technicians and take technical responsibility for the design solutions and technical data packs produced, and where required, track the completed work against time and cost budgets.
- Complete Design Authority level checks on the work of other mechanical engineers, which will include designs, design data, hand calculations and technical reports.
- Understand and provide governance on the adherence of Engineers and Technicians to departmental and company policies and procedures.
- Support the Team Leads, Projects, and Mechanical Functional Managers, in preparing estimates for future design activities.
- It may be required to travel and represent the company, providing presentations, carrying out product installation surveys etc., away from your office location.
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
- Degree qualified in Mechanical Engineering, or related discipline, or an equivalent combination of other qualifications and experience.
- Meet the requirements of UK-SPEC at the Chartered Engineer Level.
- Strong experience of the full product design lifecycle, from concept through to production, within an engineering environment.
- Experience in preparing technical datasets (drawings/MBD) and design review datasets.
- Competence in the use of CAD tools to prepare design models.
Desirable:
- Experience related to areas including avionic systems, optical displays, mechatronics, electronics packaging, anthropometrics, design with composites, additive layer manufacture and test and measurement equipment, will be of value in this role.
- A capability to use specialist dynamic, structural and thermal analysis tools is an advantage including validation of the output of these tools.
- Experience in leading a mechanical, or cross-discipline, design team.
- Existing, or previous, SC level clearance.
- Proficiency in the CREO CAD system, and experience using TeamCenter, DOORs and JIRA, would all be advantageous.
Benefits:
You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Please be aware that many roles working for our client will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.