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.

• 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.

• Experience using Creo 3D design tool

• 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.