Structural Development Engineer

3 weeks ago


Forres, Moray, United Kingdom ZipRecruiter Full time
Principal Mechanical Engineer

Location: Forres, Scotland

We are a leading micro-launch company with an exciting opportunity for a Principal Mechanical Engineer to act as Technical Authority for the structural development and analysis of our launch vehicle.

  • You will take significant responsibility for flight structure development projects across technical performance, schedule, and costs, taking a proactive role in the project from concept to manufacturing and launching flight hardware.
  • Experience in the design and analysis of finely toleranced structures for the space industry and/or composite structures would be extremely desirable.

The salary for this position is estimated to be around £70,000 - £90,000 per annum, dependant on experience.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Coordination of Mechanical Engineering Team, from design concept up to maturation/convergence with design and manufacturing, planning the activities and managing the priorities/risks
  • Ownership mechanical/thermal analysis to justify the adequacy of the designs.
  • Leadership, training & mentoring of the analysis team.
  • Build-up and execute the development plan in coordination with the Composite Chief engineer: element testing, sub-component testing.
  • Test Engineering authority for execution of the scale 1 mechanical testing (structural qualification in static, dynamic, shock): qualification test plans, test procedures, test reports, test results analysis. Owning the development of the Structures Department Testing capability.
  • Support to the Quality Gates: PDR, CDR. Ownership of the documentation containing the dimensioning cases, thermal/mechanical analysis, design justification files, qualification test plans, test results analysis, fly worthiness/qualification certificate files.
  • Support as technical authority for validation of manufacturing & assembly measurements, NCR treatments.
  • Support to System in built-up of MCI model, LV aerodynamics, LV structural analysis, Integrated Structure/thermal models.


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