Lead Mechanical Design Engineer

3 weeks ago

Staverton, United Kingdom RE Recruitment Full time

Role Summary

The role involves the full product lifecycle from New Product Introduction (NPI) through to modifying & supporting in service products on various programmes. The Lead Engineer will be leading the design and support activities of hydraulic actuation productsand/or hydraulic control valves within an aviation business.

Essential

**Responsibilities**:

- Interpret customer's requirements/specification.
- Identify means for verification of requirements.
- Own the design of our products and manage associated requirement compliance matrices.
- Identify and communicate technical risks to projects stakeholders.
- Ensure that the product meets safety, performance, weight, schedule, cost and reliability requirements.
- Create and modify technical documentation (e.g. drawings, procedures and reports).
- Manage and review work of other engineers.
- Hold Design signature for the products they are responsible for.
- Lead design reviews and participate in programme reviews.
- Lead cross-functional teams and support problem solving and corrective action activities to resolve design issues, ATP failures and customer returns/failures.
- Participate in design reviews for other products to identify opportunities and risks and provide mitigating recommendations throughout the design process.
- Support engineering changes, using Documentation Control Tools.
- Mentor junior engineers.
- Review and update design guides to include lessons learnt and advances in technology.
- Completion of any work-related tasks, which would be deemed reasonable for this role.

Requirements of the individual

Technical Skills:

- A solid engineering background - Bachelor of Science / Engineering in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering or a related discipline (or qualified to an equivalent level) / or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrable experience in delivering engineering designs in a highly regulated industry such as aerospace (knowledge of regulations and standards required).
- A good understanding of Reliability, Safety / Airworthiness, Production methods, Materials and Processes, and Stress and Performance analysis.
- Experience of designing from customer specifications using 2D & 3D design tools, preferably SolidWorks.
- Experience of designing mechanical and/or hydraulic products, ideally within an aviation business.
- Held signature approval in previous roles.
- Good knowledge and experience of mechanical components, geometric tolerancing,
- processing, precision machining, castings, forgings, metallic materials, military and industry

standards.
- Appreciation of the drivers / requirements of Procurement, Design for Manufacture,

Production and Quality.
- Understanding of design (DFMEA), test and analysis (Mathcad, FEA) tools.
- Experience using problem solving tools (8D, 5Why and other Lean tools).
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Proven mentoring capabilities.

Behavioural Skills:

- Integrity - Self-motivated and proactive.
- Drive for continuous improvement.
- Teamwork - Ability to work collaboratively and efficiently with other Engineers
- Design/Analysis/Test] to iterate and optimise design solutions.
- Innovative - Able to offer alternative solutions and solve problems.
- Act with Velocity - Committed to deliver on schedule.

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