Principal Mechanical Design Engineer
1 month ago
Job Title: Principal Mechanical Design Engineer
Industry: Defence (Maritime) – SC required
Location: New Malden, London
Role Type: Contract
Duration: 12-months
This opportunity as a Principal Mechanical Design Engineer is to support our customer within the maritime defence sector on all Mechanical designs and conduct Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Thermal Analysis (CFD). This role also provides our customers with a direct point of contact whilst liaising with manufacturers and test houses.
To sign off all mechanical designs, ensure the mechanical team is conforming to applicable processes during design, development, and build, and ensure compliance with all applicable requirements.
To produce, review and approve technical documentation to support on-time programme delivery whilst organising all Computer-Aided Design (CAD) aspects to perform efficiently and effectively using a variety of CAD applications.
Key Responsibilities:
- Mechanical design engineering Subject Matter Expert (SME) across the business.
- To analyse and justify mechanical-based designs and component selection
- To resolve mechanical issues during hardware design, development, manufacture, integration and qualification.
- To support testing and qualification of hardware, where required.
- To ensure baseline and change control activities are carried out within the mechanical team, adhering to Configuration Management (CM) processes.
- To provide mechanical/electro-mechanical design support on a single or multiple programmes.
- To provide leadership to the mechanical team to ensure processes and requirements are conformed to.
- To produce, review and approve mechanical technical documentation (drawings, documents and Bill of Materials (BOM).
- To ensure applicable mechanical standards are complied with across the business.
- To report progress on allocated work to Project/Programme Managers and the Hardware Manager.
- To assist the Hardware Manager in the development of robust processes and procedures.
- To act as delegated mechanical Design Authority (DA), when required.
- To act as customer, supplier and manufacturer mechanical technical point of contact.
- To define and develop mechanical engineering requirements.
- To lead the mechanical team in driving efficient working strategies throughout the full lifecycle of a project or programme.
- To work independently, with occasional guidance, applying expertise in professional or technical areas to achieve results.
- To supervise or project lead other engineers within projects or programmes.
- To proactively address shortfalls in process and drive improvements at a functional level.
- To take an active interest in the identification and management of risks and opportunities.
- To verify and validate mechanical requirements through the production and modification of technical documents, where applicable.
Skills Required:
- Organised, adept to workload management and prioritising appropriately to meet deadlines.
- Good interpersonal skills, able to engage effectively with all audiences and stakeholders.
- Proficient user of Creo or similar.
- Competent in delivering presentations.
- Understanding and working knowledge of mechanical-related Defence Standards.
- Ability to work independently on own initiative, as well as within a collaborative team environment.
- Ability to work under pressure in a complex and rapidly changing environment.
- Hold SC clearance or the ability to achieve it.
Preferred qualifications/experience:
- Experience working within a team developing Naval Platform Management Systems (PMS) for surface and sub-surface programmes.
- Understanding and working knowledge of Defence programmes.
- Experience or understanding of shock, vibration, EMC and climatic testing.
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