Senior Structural and Mechanical Systems Engineer

Job Details

Job Title:

Senior Structural and Mechanical Systems Engineer
Job Type: Onsite
Work Type:
Permanent

Hours:

37.5hrs per week
Industry: Space

Job Location:

Surrey
Salary:
Negotiable DoE

Our client is the world leader in the development of complex systems utilised in mission critical environments. Candidates will have the opportunity to work in an advanced manufacturing environment where pioneering new technologies to the highest possible standard is paramount.

Reporting to the Mechanical Design & Analysis Functional Manager the Senior Structural and Mechanical Systems Engineer shall undertake a combination of structural design, analysis, and testing activities, as well as supporting the development of mechanical systems to ensure reliable operation in demanding environments. This work focuses on delivering innovative and robust solutions for platform structures and mechanical systems.

• Serve as the Technical Lead for structural and mechanical system design.
• Develop and maintain schedules and budgets for mechanical and structural Work Packages, reporting budget and schedule deviations and managing risks.
• Identify, monitor, and mitigate structural and mechanical systems risks.
• Flow down customer requirements to subsystem and hardware levels, ensuring compliance and validation.
• Define, organise, and implement structural development, qualification, and validation plans.
• Develop and manage analytical models for structures and subsystems using FEA, performing static, dynamic, and quasi‑static analyses to validate numerical results with test data and determine structural margins of safety.
• Refine numerical models to ensure alignment with experimental data.
• Derive environmental envelope specifications from launch documentation, analytical results, and test data.
• Manage structural and system mass properties including mass, centre of gravity and moments/ products of inertia.
• Define, organise, and lead structural testing (vibration, static, acoustic, shock, and mass properties).
• Maintain design/analysis logs, document analysis activities, and write test and compliance reports.
• Present work at internal and external reviews, ensuring effective communication and reporting.

• Degree in relevant engineering discipline (mechanical, mechatronic etc.)
• Experience of Nastran, Hyper Mesh, Smart Office, MATLAB, Ansys Workbench, Solid Works
• Analysis of both lightweight metallic and composite materials to provide margin of safety/reserve factors using a combination of hand stressing and FEA.
• Experience of spacecraft level static, dynamic and thermo‑elastic analysis using the latest FEA tools.
• Experience of mechanical testing such as vibration, static and shock.

Candidates who are currently a Systems Engineer, Structural Engineer, Analysis Engineer, Stress Engineer, Structural Design Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, FEA Engineer and Systems Design Engineer could be suitable for this role.