Mechanical Design Engineer

Mechanical Design Engineer

Location:

Stevenage, 4 days per week on-site; 1 day remote (flexible start/finish times)
Duration: 12 months
Rate: 50 per hour (Umbrella)
IR35:
Inside
Clearance: SC (potential BPSS start); UK Eyes Only

An opportunity to join a multidisciplinary engineering team supporting the development of complex defence products. You'll work closely with other functional teams to progress developmental designs into production environments, and support suppliers/manufacturing with technical queries and delivery against milestones.

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

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.