Senior Component Engineer

4 weeks ago

Loudwater, United Kingdom Ultra Full time
Description

The Engineering function in Ultra supports the hardware development lifecycle consisting of requirements analysis, design, implementation, test and verification in order to deliver electronic or electrical components and subassemblies into projects and products.


A professional at this grade applies technical / professional knowledge, making independent judgements based on practice and significant previous experience to support decision making. Often seen as a referral point or more senior team member to escalate more complex problems. Roles will act independently with minimal guidance, and may act as project managers/formal mentors for junior staff.
 

Purpose of Role

Ultra Maritime has an exciting opportunity for a full-time or 2 part-time Component Engineer(s) to contribute to and support the electronics and mechanical engineering teams across our Loudwater, Greenford and Weymouth sites in the UK.  In this role you can be office based or home based (occasional travel to site may be needed). This home function of this role shall be in the Support Engineering Function, reporting to the Head Of Support/Deputy head Of Support.

In this role you will be specialising in Maritime Defence projects, that range from tens of £k to several £M, we will provide the successful engineer the opportunity to grow and develop their skills across a wide range of projects. Naturally you will be comfortable sharing workloads of others and able to work closely with the team to achieve team goals.

We trust and empower each other, we love to celebrate success and we win as a team. Together, we embrace change and we’re never satisfied until we’ve done what we said we’d do. In this role you will form part of a developing team, of Component engineers working together to provide management and maintenance of the component database and mitigation of obsolescence and compliance issues.

Ideally you will be familiar with the defence industry or have demonstrable skills in Electronic and/or Mechanical component management.
 

Key Responsibilities as a Components Engineer

  • Working with the Electronic and Mechanical functions to support their component activities, including:

    • Obsolescence identification and supporting the mitigation/resolution.

    • Management of the ERP database and providing support to its engineering users.

    • Carrying out all activities to appropriate engineering processes and procedures.

  • Assisting in component selection to meet specific customer requirements (and relevant standards).

  • Keeping abreast of current legislation (and upcoming changes) and ensuring it is adhered to within your own work and instructing/reviewing others to ensure they meet the requirements

  • Responsible for providing planning and estimation input into Project Managers at the kick-off of new projects

  • Freedom to take on the responsibility to update/amend process/procedures followed by the team as changes to legislation are identified or when cost/time improvements can be realised.

  • To identify and support other depts. in the resolution of qualification, compliance and safety issues.

  • To support component risk identification and mitigation activities.

  • Coaching and mentoring of more junior Engineers

  • Liaising with both internal departments and external suppliers.

  • Demonstrable experience in working closely within a team.

Skills, Qualification and Experience as a Components Engineer

  • HNC/HND or Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Electronics/Mechanical or a relevant subject,

  • Good knowledge/understanding of component legislation and materials safety standards

  • Experience of the whole product lifecycle within a defence or aviation environment.

  • Knowledge of Component Engineering best practices, methodologies, processes and tools.

  • Familiarity with one or more PMRP tools (IFS desirable) and/or SQL database experience.

Benefits on offer:

  • Optional 9 day fortnight

  • TOIL

  • Flexible working hours

  • 1pm finish on a Friday

  • Annual bonus

  • Hybrid working for certain job roles.

  • Casual dress

  • 25 days holiday

  • Christmas shut down.

  • Option to buy or sell holiday.

  • Option to purchase private health care, dental, critical illness etc via salary sacrifice.

  • Reward hub - discounts at over 200 online stores

  • 4 x annual salary life cover

  • Pension starting at 5% Employer / 4% Employee. You can select your employee contribution level from 4% to 70% (providing this sacrifice does not cause your salary to drop below the National Minimum Wage/ National Living Wage).

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Relocation Support

Attracting high-level talent and people that can add value and expertise, is vital to our success. Attracting and retaining brilliant people is imperative so that’s why we search across the UK for talent. We offer financial support to candidates that are considering relocating; this is considered on a case-by-case basis per role and subject to HMRC guidelines.

Nationality Requirements

Candidates must be eligible to obtain the relevant security clearance required for the role, due to the nature of the programmes we deliver for our customers.

Diverse & Inclusive Employer

Ultra Maritime is an equal opportunities employer that values diversity, inclusion, equity and equality. Underpinned by our values, behaviours, and policies, we want you to feel empowered to be your best and authentic self.

We promote a workplace that welcomes people from all backgrounds and cultures; believing that this will increase our diversity of thinking, and ultimately ensure we continue delivering on our commitments to our customers.

We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status and welcome applications from all candidates.

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