Mechanisms Mechanical Engineer

1 day ago

Reading, United Kingdom AWE PLC Full time

The Mechanisms team within AWE are looking for innovative, creative, and motivated Mechanical Engineers who are at various stages of their career.

Excellent training and development opportunities

**Mechanisms Mechanical Engineer**

Location: South-East

**Salary**: £26,500 - £67,400 (dependent on skills and experience)

AWE **(one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK)** offers an attractive array of benefits which include:

- Market leading contributory pension scheme
- Generous holiday entitlement 270 hours a year (inclusive of Bank Holidays)**plus every other Friday off**
- Flexible working hours
- Salary sacrifice scheme
- Funding for the annual membership of a relevant professional body
- AWE Life Insurance
- Relocation package available (terms and conditions apply)

Our Warhead Engineering Mechanisms team are responsible for the design, manufacture, assembly and testing of robust miniature weapon safety and environmental sensing Mechanisms.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Produce and deliver conceptual designs, detail designs, manufacturing specifications, operational documentation, and validation evidence for mechanical engineering solutions
- Construct and contribute to the underpinning science and calculations during the concept development phase of a new mechanism
- Provide technical input and contributions to the design of new Mechanisms
- Support technical reviews and give presentations on design solutions, when necessary
- Assist with Project controls, including ensuring delivery dates are adhered to, budgets are maintained and progress, successes and any improvements are reported
- Support the assembly work, testing, validation and approval of the Mechanisms component builds within the teams inhouse laboratory facilities
- Follow company design processes throughout a project, identify areas of improvement and make recommendations
- An HNC/HND or Degree in an Engineering discipline or consummate experience
- Understanding of mechanical design and specification
- Previous experience of the use of design tools and/or product development & realisation
- Knowledge of engineering manufacturing techniques including Additive Manufacturing
- Ideally previous experience of 3D solid modelling (Siemens NX, Solidworks) and generation of technical drawings including the use of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)
- Good interpersonal skills, ability to work independently but also within a team, supporting colleagues to achieve the teams' goals
- Mechanisms
- Materials, such as - Stainless steels, ferrites, ceramics and noble metals
- Joining techniques
- Coatings and dry lubricants
- Tolerance and Fault Tree Analysis
- Predictive Modelling - Finite Element Analysis or Rigid Body Dynamics
- Design of tooling, jigs and fixtures
- Product testing and validation
- Small drive systems e.g., Solenoids, steppers or voice coils
- Small scale electro-magnetic design
- Fluid dynamics and simple hydraulic systems

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