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Design Engineer - Aircraft Structures

Bristol
4 months ago
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Design Engineer - Aircraft Structures for eVTOL

Contract: 12 months

Rate: £45 - 48 per hour outside ir35

Location: Bristol/hybrid (3 days per week on site)

Job Description Summary:

  1. Experienced in airframe structure design engineering development

  2. Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering graduate or post graduate with a minimum 6 to 10 years of

    experience in executing Design activities

  3. Having experience working on eVTOL aircraft design, build and test related work is an advantage for this position

    Job Description:

  4. Experienced in airframe structure design engineering development2) Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering graduate or post graduate with a minimum 6 to

    10 years of experience in executing Design activities

  5. Having experience working on eVTOL aircraft design, build and test related work is an

    advantage for this position

    Candidate with experience in providing design and build services to a customer for aprototype electrical vertical take‐off/landing aircraft.

    The Design engineer along with a team is required to be provided through a capacity offloadsolution to prepare composite and metallic structure detail and assembly definitions.

    The role requires to delivery professional design engineering services per week for the statedduration of this engagement providing design, and design checking capability.

    The design engineer along with a team of engineers must be capable of delivering designengineering, including but not limited to creation and cross check of model‐based definitions

    within the 3D Experience digital mock‐up (DMU).

    If you are interested in this role or wish to apply, please feel free to reply to this advert or call me on (phone number removed)
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