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)

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.

• 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.

• 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