Principal Mechanical Design Engineer

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 perform a range of engineering activities including progressing developmental designs into production environments and working with suppliers on technical queries.

Responsibilities:

• Carry out Mechanical Design and proving activities as part of a wider team for prime and variant products, of both piece parts and assemblies.

• Support/liaise with manufacturing, resolving manufacturing problems & defects.

• Support to functional & environmental testing and trials.

• Liaise with suppliers/purchasing to resolve any technical queries that may arise.

• Planning and reporting on own day-to-day activities to meet project milestones.

• Gain clarification of and help to generate requirements, including challenging of extraneous requirements to reduce lead time, UPC and design complexity
Skillset/experience required:

• Experience using Creo 3D design tool

Knowledge of several of the following:

• Manufacturing processes

• Tolerance studies

• Environmental test

• Mass property calculations

• Material selection

• FMEA

• Design for Manufacture/Assembly

• Environmental Gasket Sealing

• Structural design

• Defence Standards

• Review processes

• Product Life cycles

• Industrial validation

• An ability to work as part of a multifunctional engineering team and be able to partake in or host design reviews.

• An appreciation of other engineering areas/domains.