Mechanical Design Engineer

Mechanical Design Engineer

Location:

Bristol, 4 days per week on-site; 1 day remote (flexible start/finish times).
Duration: 6 months (extension possible)
Rate: £40-£50 per hour (Umbrella)
IR35:
Inside
Clearance: SC (potential BPSS start); UK Eyes Only

Overview

An opportunity to join a multidisciplinary engineering team supporting the development of complex defence products. You'll work closely with other functional teams to progress developmental designs into production environments, and support suppliers/manufacturing with technical queries and delivery against milestones.

Responsibilities:

* Carry out Mechanical Design and proving activities as part of a wider team for prime and variant products, of both piece parts and assemblies.

* Support/liaise with manufacturing, resolving manufacturing problems & defects.

* Support to functional & environmental testing and trials.

* Liaise with suppliers/purchasing to resolve any technical queries that may arise.

* Planning and reporting on own day-to-day activities to meet project milestones.

* Gain clarification of and help to generate requirements, including challenging of extraneous requirements to reduce lead time, UPC and design complexity

Skillset/experience required:

* Experience using Creo 3D design tool

Knowledge of several of the following:

* Manufacturing processes

* Tolerance studies

* Environmental test

* Mass property calculations

* Material selection

* FMEA

* Design for Manufacture/Assembly

* Environmental Gasket Sealing

* Structural design

* Defence Standards

* Review processes

* Product Life cycles

* Industrial validation

* An ability to work as part of a multifunctional engineering team and be able to partake in or host design reviews.

* An appreciation of other engineering areas/domains