Design Engineer - CATIA

About the Company

A Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), Thales Alenia Space is a global space manufacturer delivering, for more than 40 years, high-tech solutions for telecommunications, navigation, Earth Observation, environmental management, exploration, science and orbital infrastructures. Thanks to our diversity of skills, talents and cultures, our customers (governments, institutions, space agencies, telecommunications operators) therefore have Space to Connect, Secure & Defend, Observe & Protect, Explore, Travel & Navigate.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you;

whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

As a Design Engineer, you will be expected to generate the Mechanical and Thermal designs of parts and assemblies needed for space project propulsion sub-systems and equipment.

• Prepare/update subsystem CAD models and review materials through the different project life cycle milestones & reviews (PDR, CDR, QR etc).
• Demonstrates design engineering knowledge to achieve critical project outcomes to time, cost and quality.
• Cover activities such as integrated product design, requirements management, interfaces management, customer’s needs analysis, product design definition.
• Using the necessary CAD software (Catia V5/V6), generate Mechanical designs of parts and assemblies needed for space project equipment, sub-systems, systems and GSE.
• Participate in design trade-off activities.
• Manage the tree structure of the product, using the appropriate PLM tool if necessary (ie, Enovia).
• Ensure the management of drawing activities within constraints provided by the Project Manager, the Architect, and the Project Design Authority.
• Manage the status, versions and issues of parts and assemblies.
• Manage interfaces with other areas of the spacecraft, such as other modules, structures or equipment.
• Generate 2-D drawings for parts, assemblies and interface definition.
• Ensures that the design process considers assembly processes and tooling capability.
• Generate manufacturing and assembly file, and manage the plans for assembly and integration.
• Generate files needed for analysis inputs.
• Assess new suppliers, materials, components, data, software and methods for spacecraft Mechanical and Thermal Engineering.
• Generate the documents and review materials needed to support projects and reviews.
• Check designs (their own and others) for the completeness and correctness of information, tolerance build-ups and assembly/integration sequences.

• Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering or other relevant experience.
• The following would be an asset: A Master’s or higher degree.
• Membership of a professional Institution.

• Good general knowledge of mechanical design and conception.
• Working knowledge and experience of 3-D CAD software (CATIA preferred) and ENOVIA.
• Knowledge of relevant drawing standards (ie, BS 8888).
• Knowledge of Geometric Tolerancing best practice.
• Knowledge of manufacturing techniques (conventional and advanced) and how these affect the design and drawings.

• Experience of working in a multi-discipline team environment with project pressures.
• Experience dealing with customers, partners, suppliers’ interface.
• Experience in the Space domain.
• Experience with some of the following specific CAD modules:
  Sheet metal, Pipe routing, Harnessing, ALM design, Cinematics, Composite panel and insert design.

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