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.