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Copello have partnered with a global engineering business in the recruitment of an enthusiastic and resourceful Senior Design Engineer to join their team at their site based in Havant. This is an exciting opportunity to work on all manner of vessels within the Naval & Commercial markets with a focus on military applications.
As Senior Design Engineer, your work will focus on these responsibilities:
- Lead, create and support concept design and technical specification, configuration and support activities for shaft line products and systems.
- Lead, create/follow work breakdown structure for shaft line projects.
- Oversee day-to-day operation and tasks and report progress to line manager(s) and/or project manager(s).
- Customer, supplier and other third-party liaison.
- Lead, create and support calculation and analysis of shaft line equipment and system.
- Lead, create and support drafting and 3D modelling tasks using company software.
- Provide technical knowledge to purchasing processes.
- Maintain compliance within all relevant data control requirements.
To be successful in this role, we expect you to have:
- A degree in Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent.
- A proven technical background within Marine Design Engineering
- Relevant knowledge of shaft line equipment and systems.
- Proven background within mechanical and structural design and analysis.
- Experience and understanding of the shaft line failure modes and hazards.
- Knowledge of the marine / shipbuilding industry.
- Effective communicator with both internal and external customers and suppliers.
Required Engineering tools/packages experience:
- Experience using CAD (Solid Edge or similar)
- Experience with Office tools
- Experience with shaftline calculation tools (i.e., ShaftDesigner, Nauticus Machinery or similar)
Required Skills:
- Experience of mechanical and structural calculation (hand calcs and FE analysis)
- Experience or familiar with shock calculations would be an advantage
- Experience with standards, including defence standards (def-stans, mil-std,etc)
a Mechanical Design Engineer within the marine industry would be an ideal candidate
