Mechanical Engineer Certification & Validation

Position: Mechanical Engineer – Certification & Validation
World Class Defence Organisation is currently looking to recruit a Mechanical Engineer – Certification & Validation subcontractor on an initial 6 month contract.

Rate: £50.00 per hour

Location:

Stevenage
Hybrid / Remote working: 2 days a week onsite, the rest working remotely from home.

Contract:

37 Hours per week
Overtime:
Hours worked over 37 hours per week will be calculated at ‘time and a quarter’
Duration: 6 Months (initially and then ongoing and long-term thereafter)
IR35 status:
Inside IR35 (Umbrella)

Mechanical Engineer – Certification & Validation

Job Description:

An opportunity to become part of Europe’s No. 1 Missile Systems Designer, as a Mechanical Design Engineer. You will work closely with other functional teams, to develop products to meet our customer’s needs. Within this role you will have the opportunity to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to work on the certification and validation activities to allow a new product to be delivered into service with international customers.

Responsibilities:

Support the Mechanical Certification Lead Engineer on generating evidence statements against Mechanical Requirements.
Interpreting Test reports from subsystem, inert and live munition testing
Interfacing with the Systems team, Architecture team, test team and others to gather the evidence required.
Planning and reporting on own day-to-day activities to meet project milestones.
Skillset/experience required:

Required:

Experience writing concise evidence statements against technical requirements
Experience generating reports from testing or modelling work
Experience working with diverse stakeholders
Experience viewing models in 3D design tool (ideally Creo)
Experience working within or closely with a Mechanical design team

Preferred:
Experience working with diverse stakeholders

Experience with DOORS
Defence or Aerospace experience
Experience working to Defence Standards
Environmental testing experience
Understanding of CADMID product life cycle
An appreciation of other engineering areas/domains.
Experience using Windchill and interrogating BOM structures