Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Job Title:

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Location:

Gosport, England, United Kingdom

Role Type:
Permanent – Full Time

Package: £52,425 - £58,250 (salary dependent on experience) + Benefits

Role : SF19901

At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting‑edge defence technology to ground‑breaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer at our Gosport site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting‑edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.

As a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer you 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.

Day‑to‑day, you’ll 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.

Ideally you will have either gained significant and wide‑ranging experience in geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, CAD modelling using NX, configuration control using Teamcenter, and composites manufacture and/or design for composites manufacture. Or have gained significant and wide‑ranging experience in distilling large numbers of requirements into a product solution, Design For Manufacture (DFM) and Design For Assembly (DFA) understanding. For example, cable runs, space claims and management of interfaces and associated risks particularly during staged release for manufacture.

• Reviews:
  Guiding others and coordinating subject‑matter experts through design reviews, including running pre‑reviews and chairing internal or lower‑level customer reviews, with potential to progress to full Design Review Chair competency.
• Delivery:
  Playing a key part in live continuous improvement during delivery, leading and coordinating technical teams to produce optimised designs and clear, detailed reports.
• Technical:
  Providing confident advice and presentations to customers, stakeholders and peers, while driving high technical and professional standards through inventive problem solving and recognised best practice.
• Governance:
  Solid understanding of safety engineering tools and how they are applied across the project lifecycle, including compiling HAZID outputs and contributing to Design Safety Cases.

• Display both knowledge and practical experience, functioning without supervision on a day‑to‑day basis and providing guidance to less experienced practitioners in the following competency areas:
  • Hazard Identification, Safety Cases & Safety Management systems
  • Applying Analytical, Simulation and Modelling Techniques
  • Materials Selection, Coatings & Corrosion
  • Concept Design & Development
• Significant experience creating technical drawings from 3D Models in Siemens NX, working with suppliers, manufacturers, customers, and subject matter experts.

• HNC/HND/Degree in Aeronautical or Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design or Product Design (or equivalent experience)
• Industrial Design, Mechanical Engineering, Product Design degree or equivalent (desirable)
• Member of a recognised professional institution, maintaining CPD and holding, or working towards, CEng registration.

We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

This role is 37 hours per week based at our Gosport site with an average site attendance of five days per week. The role primarily requires working on‑site with limited opportunity for remote work. Adaptive working is available which includes flexible start and finish times with compressed hours options.

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