Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Senior Mechanical Design

Engineer

Duration:

6 months

Rate: £70

per hour inside IR35 via Umbrella (37 hours per

week)

Location:

Farnborough (Hybrid, travel to Amesbury/ Malvern may be required ad

hoc)

SC Clearance/

eligibility is required for this position

Role Purpose

Being a go-to individual within the Allocated Design Team

& surrounding SME's, the Senior Engineer - Mechanical

Designer's Main role will be leading the delivery of Mechanical

Design solutions and taking ownership of delivery on complex tasks,

requiring high integrity engineering and managing complex, unusual

tasks involving significant challenges.

They

will explore and test the problem space thoroughly, guiding others

in generating their own hardware solutions and be prepared to lead

and co-ordinate the reviews and testing of these ideas at design

reviews and group critiques to delight customers.

The company support numerous Domains, such as Aircraft

Modification, Land Platforms Development & Autonomy and Ship

design. Each Team will have unique engineering specialities &

focusses. The individual will have gained significant and

wide-ranging experience in the domain specific technical skills of

a complex nature - E.g. FEA, CFD, Thermal Analysis, compliance by

way of example.

Key

Accountabilities

Reviews:

• Can Guide others and corral SME's at Design Reviews &

  hold pre-reviews, Chair Reviews for internal tasks / lower level,

  single customers; may be working towards Design Review Chair

  competency

• Exhibits Gravitas coupled with

  captivating and compelling content to sell a persuasive stance /

  argument; Makes concepts immersive / real to the

  customer

• Responsible for bringing together

  & chairing Engineering reviews

• Sets the

  expectation / culture for visual standards in the local team -

  encourages higher standards.

Delivery:

• Directly Contributes to continuous improvement
  • live during delivery.
  • Able to write detailed

  reports and manage technical teams to deliver optimised

  designs.

• Understands verification &

  validation needs & sets up the requirement gathering to

  maximise success for later stages

• Understands

  the regulatory environment & needs of the project

• Uses Prototyping mentality beyond hardware

  creation

• Foresees overspend & helps the PM

  keep the project on track.

• Works with the PM

  to recognised realisation of risk and exploit externally driven

  change

• Understands the value proposition

  Design are trying to bring by delivering this piece of work &

  ensures we keep focus on maximising that value.

• Can oversee the putting together of TDP's and knows how

  to ensure they are robust

• Supports others in

  developing their creative confidence to experiment.

• Go-to individual for applying design thinking methodology

  beyond design

• May be able to Value Stream Map

  & show others how to maximise Value for the end

  customer

Technical:

• Provides advice or presentation to customers,

  stakeholders and peers.

• Inventive in problem

  solving & drives the standards for the community

• Maintain high levels of integrity when measuring -

  outcome of measurements may be political / have regulatory or

  business implications

• knows when to stop the

  team & measure the variables to prevent change on change

  happening

• Able to directly negotiate with

  customers over requirements & cost

• Competent at trading requirements with the PM/Systems

  engineer/customer as appropriate

• Able to

  provide critique & review delivery strategies from the

  beginning to the end of a project from a DFM view

• Has excellent understanding and knowledge of both

  external and internal manufacturing techniques

• Has a good knowledge and understanding of Regulatory and

  Governance of the design process

• Able to use

  CAD tools beyond the obvious intended use; employs clean thinking

  on Feature trees

• Deep understanding of

  Technical Drawings as a communications method - offering clarity

  & accuracy of information

• Go to person for

  best practice & input to design methodology & takes

  feedback from external sources

• May use

  bespoke/ specialist software such as FEA/CFD etc.

Experience &

Qualifications

• HNC/HND/Degree in Aeronautical, Electrical, Electronic or

  Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design or Product Design (or

  equivalent experience)

• Extensive CAD

  experience

• Strong experience with owning

  packets of work

• Significant experience

  creating technical Drawings from 3D Models

• Significant experience creating concepts & generating

  solution ideas and exposing those ideas to critique

• Knowledge & understanding of engineering fundamentals
  • Formal training or experience in Engineering subjects such as

  materials, stress awareness, mechanism designs, Design principles,

  electrical awareness etc.

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