Mechanical Design Engineer

Overview of department: An opportunity to become part of Europe’s No. 1 Missile 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 undertake cutting-edge research of novel mechanical technologies to meet the challenges of tomorrow.
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 • Tooling/fixtures design • Structural design • Defence Standards • Review processes • Product Lifecycles • 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.