Design Project Engineer - Special Projects

Location: Coventry, UK

Core

Hours:

08:00-16:35 (Mon – Thu) 08:00-15:10 (Fri)

Vacancy Type: Full-time, Permanent, Hybrid

Salary: £45,000 - £55,000 (subject to experience) + Discretionary Bonus

NP Aerospace uses high performance composite materials across our armour and commercial composite products, delivering lightweight protection for people and vehicles. This role is advertised to support the Design and Engineering activities associated with Special Projects arising in the business.

The role is to support the Special Projects Director in the fulfilment of internally and externally funded projects to enhance the product offerings of NP Aerospace. The Special projects department is a newly created department initially focussing on the following key projects:

• Develop a portfolio of standalone composite platform armour to satisfy the needs of platform customers in the UK, Europe and US with a range of certified products offering different levels of protection with short manufacturing lead times.
• Specific cost down activity associated with existing long term composite project to secure multiyear contracts going forward.
• Develop a defence focused structural composite business stream focused on the growth in unmanned systems in conjunction with GTR composites.
• Project and Design Engineering responsibility for funded North American vehicle up armour project taking solutions from test coupon phase to fully integrated add on armour along with flat and shaped spall liner panels.

• Performance rewards – discretionary bonus opportunities
• Flex your day – flexible start and finish times (subject to manager approval and operational needs)
• Time to recharge – 25 days’ holiday + 8 bank holidays, with the option to buy more through our Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Support for Defence – two weeks’ paid leave for Reservists and Cadets, plus paid leave for Cadet Force Adult Volunteers (CFAVs)
• Future security – competitive pension scheme (9% combined employer/employee contributions
• Peace of mind – life cover at 3x base salary
• Health & wellbeing first – BHSF Cash Healthcare Plan to support everyday health costs
• Grow with us – career development and advancement opportunities within a global business
• Supportive environment – a team culture built on innovation, collaboration, and purpose

The main responsibilities for the role will include:

• Generating designs which may include material selection, defining processing parameters, CAD, drafting.
• Supporting design reviews ensuring verification and validation activities are demonstrated and documented.
• Technical support to the Design, Development, Quality and Manufacturing Engineering teams for proposed designs.
• Working closely with engineering and project teams both in NPA Coventry, NPA Canada and with the North American customer to successfully deliver project requirements.
• Undertake problem solving of design and product issues to resolve functional issues as they arise throughout the development and service life cycle.
• Developing specifications and test programmes, analysis and interpretation of test result data and the creation and delivery of reports to internal colleagues and external customers.
• Support the developmental component manufacture and providing schematics, CNC programming, manufacturing documentation / guidelines, hands on manufacturing support and training.
• Working alongside the business development and marketing departments to provide input into platform armour sales literature.
• Creation of product structures to ensure accurate capture of bill of materials
• Generation of drawings to support accurate recording of solutions tested and verified.
• Contribute to predicting future platform armour requirements to include in the “off the shelf” portfolio.
• Writing traceability requirements and build documentation to include in the documentation pack for the portfolio.
• Following all health and safety, quality and handling requirements for materials and processes.

The above is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities required.

• Experience in 3D CAD modelling and detail design.
• Honours degree or equivalent in an appropriate Mechanical…