Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Duration: 6 months

Rate: £70 per hour inside IR35 via Umbrella

Location:

Farnborugh/Malvern Hybrid (travel to Amesbury may be required ad hoc)

SC Clearance/ eligibility required

Role Purpose

Being a go-to individual within the Allocated Design Team & surrounding SME's, the Senior Engineer - Mechanical Designer's Main role will be leading the delivery of Mechanical Design solutions and taking ownership of delivery on complex tasks, requiring high integrity engineering and managing complex, unusual tasks involving significant challenges.

They will explore and test the problem space thoroughly, guiding others in generating their own hardware solutions and be prepared to lead and co-ordinate the reviews and testing of these ideas at design reviews and group critiques to delight customers.

The company support numerous Domains, such as Aircraft Modification, Land Platforms Development & Autonomy and Ship design. Each Team will have unique engineering specialities & focusses. The individual will have gained significant and wide-ranging experience in the domain specific technical skills of a complex nature
- E.g. FEA, CFD, Thermal Analysis, compliance by way of example.

Key Accountabilities

Reviews:

Can Guide others and corral SME's at Design Reviews & hold pre-reviews, Chair Reviews for internal tasks / lower level, single customers; may be working towards Design Review Chair competency

Exhibits Gravitas coupled with captivating and compelling content to sell a persuasive stance / argument;
Makes concepts immersive / real to the customer

Responsible for bringing together & chairing Engineering reviews

Sets the expectation / culture in the local team - encourages higher standards.

Delivery:

Able to write detailed reports and manage technical teams to deliver optimised designs.

Understands verification & validation needs & sets up the requirement gathering to maximise success for later stages

Understands the regulatory environment & needs of the project

Uses Prototyping mentality beyond hardware creation

Foresees overspend & helps the PM keep the project on track.

Works with the PM to recognised realisation of risk and exploit externally driven change

Proactively addresses potential issues - can forecast where we may have unresolved / unrealised Risk & has a multi-pronged strategy to avoid the Risk, mitigate the Risk

Excellent communication skills & rigour on driving daily delivery

Understands team dynamics, human behaviours & an interest in psychology to maximise delivery success

Understands the value proposition Design are trying to bring by delivering this piece of work & ensures we keep focus on maximising that value.

Can oversee the putting together of TDP's and knows how to ensure they are robust

Supports others in developing their creative confidence to experiment.

Go-to individual for applying design thinking methodology beyond design

May be able to Value Stream Map & show others how to maximise Value for the customer

Can Sign off complicated Estimates with multiple inputs beyond their skill area

Adept at using the 7 wastes to find opportunities to reduce effort/minimise WIP/Maximise throughput

Strong appreciation for what the customer budget is and can tailor the solution & estimate to suit the budget

Experienced Pace setting - sets the tone & makes the pace & comms cadence requirements clear from the offset

Technical:

Provides advice or presentation to customers, stakeholders and peers.

Maintain high levels of integrity when measuring - outcome of measurements may be political / have regulatory or business implications

Able to directly negotiate with customers over requirements & cost

Competent at trading requirements with the PM/Systems engineer/customer as appropriate

Able to provide critique & review delivery strategies from the beginning to the end of a project from a DFM view

Has excellent understanding and knowledge of both external and internal manufacturing techniques

Has a good knowledge and understanding of Regulatory and Governance of the design process

Able to use CAD tools beyond the obvious intended use; employs clean thinking on Feature trees

Deep understanding of Technical Drawings…