Senior Engineer - Mechanical Design

Role: Senior Engineer - Mechanical Design

Site Location: Salisbury - Boscombe Down (3 days required on site)

Rate: £60 per hour via Umbrella

Duration: 6-month contract

Being a go-to individual within the Allocated Design Team & surrounding SME's, the Senior Engineer - Mechanical Designer's Main role 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.

Key Activities

• Can Guide others and corral SME's at Design Reviews & hold pre-reviews, Chair Reviews for internal tasks / lower level, single customers; may be working towards Design Review Chair competency
• Exhibits Gravitas coupled with captivating and compelling content to sell a persuasive stance / argument; Makes concepts immersive / real to the customer
• Responsible for bringing together & chairing Engineering reviews
• Sets the expectation / culture for visual standards in the local team - encourages higher standards.
• Understands verification & validation needs & sets up the requirement gathering to maximise success for later stages
• Understands the regulatory environment & needs of the project
• Actively strategizes on how to get to customer need more effectively
• Commercially Aware & understands what we're contracted to do
• Is familiar with which safety engineering tools can be used at particular stages of a project lifecycle.
• Compile HAZ ID & contribute to Design Safety Cases
• Managing the quality assurance and authoring processes
• Understands statistical approaches to Safety
• Drawing check Sig & Release for HCC2 Drawings; with a Deep understanding and experience of Tolerancing & dimension styles

Roles and Responsibilities

We would expect the individual to display both knowledge and practical experience, can function without supervision on a day-to-day basis and be capable of providing guidance and advice to less experienced practitioners in the following competency areas - Including but not limited to:

• Coatings
• Corrosion
• Materials Science
• Materials Selection
• Concept Design & Development
• Requirements capture & analysis
• Regulations
• Project Lifecycles
• Hazard Identification, Safety Cases & Safety Management systems
• Applying Analytical, Simulation and Modelling Techniques where required

Qualifications and Requirements

• HNC/HND/Degree in Aeronautical, Electrical, Electronic or Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design or Product Design (or equivalent experience)
• Experience Designing Technical Hardware solutions - Ideally from a regulated industry requiring complex problem solving, Precision tolerances or specific domain knowledge
• Significant experience creating technical Drawings from 3D Models, working with suppliers, manufacturers, customers, and subject matter experts.
• Significant experience creating concepts & generating solution ideas and exposing those ideas to critique