Senior Engineer - Mechanical Design

Salisbury
11 months ago
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Role: Senior Engineer - Mechanical Design

Site Location: Salisbury - Boscombe Down (3 days required on site)

Rate: £60 per hour via Umbrella

Duration: 6-month contract

MUST HAVE AEROSPACE EXPERIENCE

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.

Key Activities

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.
Understands verification & validation needs & sets up the requirement gathering to maximise success for later stages
Understands the regulatory environment & needs of the project
Actively strategizes on how to get to customer need more effectively
Commercially Aware & understands what we're contracted to do
Is familiar with which safety engineering tools can be used at particular stages of a project lifecycle.
Compile HAZ ID & contribute to Design Safety Cases
Managing the quality assurance and authoring processes
Understands statistical approaches to Safety
Drawing check Sig & Release for HCC2 Drawings; with a Deep understanding and experience of Tolerancing & dimension styles

Roles and Responsibilities

We would expect the individual to display both knowledge and practical experience, can function without supervision on a day-to-day basis and be capable of providing guidance and advice to less experienced practitioners in the following competency areas - Including but not limited to:

Coatings
Corrosion
Materials Science
Materials Selection
Concept Design & Development
Requirements capture & analysis
Regulations
Project Lifecycles
Hazard Identification, Safety Cases & Safety Management systems
Applying Analytical, Simulation and Modelling Techniques where required

Qualifications and Requirements

HNC/HND/Degree in Aeronautical, Electrical, Electronic or Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design or Product Design (or equivalent experience)
Experience Designing Technical Hardware solutions - Ideally from a regulated industry requiring complex problem solving, Precision tolerances or specific domain knowledge
Significant experience creating technical Drawings from 3D Models, working with suppliers, manufacturers, customers, and subject matter experts.
Significant experience creating concepts & generating solution ideas and exposing those ideas to critique

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