Senior Mechanical Engineer

12 Month contract – Inside IR35

£52.78 per hour umbrella / £45.82 per hour PAYE gross (inc. holiday pay)

4 days on site ideally (can be flexible to 2 – 3 per week if needed)

Job Role:

• To provide the mechanical engineering capability required to design and develop new products and support the readiness and sustainment of our existing products.
• To produce innovative and well-engineered mechanical solutions, underwritten through the use of sound mechanical engineering principles, judgement and appropriate engineering calculation, which assure a viable route to verification and successful test and support the creation of product which conforms to requirement.

Key Responsibilities:

• The generation of mechanical design solutions that support in the creation of product which meets customer requirement, is fully underwritten, approved and documented.
• The preparation and presentation of development plans and strategies, design data packs and other engineering detail for internal and external review.
• The review and approval of mechanical engineering documentation.
• The management, development and delivery of work packages, with ownership and autonomy, to schedule and budget.
• The identification and communication of risk, and the suggestion of de-risk activities.
• The validation and verification of mechanical requirements using appropriate tools (preferably DOORS) and managing these throughout the engineering life cycle.
• Working collaboratively with engineers and specialists within multi-disciplined teams.
• Managing the efforts of supporting engineers and technicians, taking responsibility for their output, and where required, tracking the completion of their work against schedule and budget.
• Peer reviewing the work of other mechanical engineers and technicians.
• Support the efforts of fellow engineers, team leads, project leads and functional managers.

Key Attributes:

Essential:

• Competent in the use of CAD tools, 3D parametric model creation, specifically in CREO.
• Good communicator, well organised and able to work with multiple stakeholders.
• Experienced in the communication and selling of design intent through presentation.
• Experienced in the communication of part and assembly detail through engineering drawing. Specifically to standard (preferably BS8888/ASME Y14.100) and an understanding of dimensional tolerance control, tolerance analysis and GD&T.

Desirable:

• Experienced in the design and development of any of the following; electronic systems, optical systems, mechatronic systems, electronic packaging, anthropometrics, composite materials, additive manufacturing and test/measurement equipment.
• Experience in the use of engineering analysis tools supporting dynamic, structural and thermal analysis or experience in the validation of the output of these tools through test.
• Worked within and/or an understanding of a product development lifecycle.
• Experience with working within highly regulated engineering environments.
• Existing, or previous, SC level clearance
• Proficiency in any or all of the following; CREO, WindChill, Teamcenter, DOORs and JIRA.