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Lead Mechanical Engineer - OME Hardware
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Lead Mechanical Engineer - OME Hardware
Lead Mechanical Engineer – Thales OME Hardware
About the Role
Expleo is a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation. We help businesses harness unrelenting technological change to successfully deliver innovations that will help them gain a competitive advantage and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe.
As part of our continued growth, we are seeking a Lead Mechanical Engineer – Thales OME Hardware.
The mechanical engineer will be expected to:
- Lead and complete mechanical design and development tasks in line with project plans.
- Ensure delivery to cost, schedule, and quality.
- Develop robust concepts.
- Produce detailed mechanical and assembly drawings.
- Support design reviews.
- Generate independently reviewed data packs.
- Work closely with project management, design authorities, supply chain, and manufacturing.
UK SC required due to IT access requirements. Base locations: Glasgow / Reading.
Responsibilities
This is not just a pure CAD role. Thales is looking for engineers who can:
- Work as part of a multi-skilled hardware team and support the transformation of non-core engineering work.
- Candidates should be able to:
- Work independently and collaboratively.
- Engage with systems, electronics, manufacturing, supply chain, and design authority stakeholders.
- Communicate risks, issues, and progress clearly.
- Participate in and support internal technical reviews.
- Provide design rationale and secure stakeholder buy-in.
- Mentor or support less experienced engineers where required.
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Essential Skills
- PTC CREO
- PTC Windchill
- CATIA / Siemens NX / SolidWorks as transferable CAD experience
- PLM systems such as Windchill, Teamcenter, or Palma
- ANSYS FEA, structural and/or thermal
- Exposure to DOORS or Polarion preferable for requirements/procurement specification work
Desired Skills
Strong candidates will also bring:
- Opto-mechanical design exposure.
- Experience handling the mechanical design lifecycle – taking designs through concept, development, detailed design, review, and release.
- 3D CAD and drafting – generating 3D CAD models, assemblies, and detailed manufacturing drawings.
- CAD tools proficiency – ideally PTC CREO and Windchill. Also relevant: CATIA, Siemens NX, SolidWorks.
- PLM / configuration control – experience working within PLM systems like Windchill, Teamcenter, or similar.
- Drawings and standards – strong production of detailed drawings, assembly drawings, geometric dimensioning & tolerancing (GD&T), and BS 8888 compliance.
- Design calculations / validation – ability to support design validation via calculations or basic simulation.
- Manufacturing awareness – understanding design for manufacture, assembly, and test.
- Documentation – producing design documentation, data packs, calculations, interface control documents, and design records.
- Regulated industry experience – defence, aerospace, oil & gas, medical, or similarly controlled engineering environments.
- Project delivery – expertise in communicating progress, risks, and issues while meeting time and budget.
- Precision mechanical design and assembly experience.
- Hands-on manufacturing, assembly, or prototyping experience.
- Experience with: 3D printing, prototype builds, initial system testing, pre-production builds.
- Designing around electronics – packaging, PCB constraints, thermal constraints, and electro-mechanical interfaces.
- Servo systems, materials selection, and thermal management.
- FEA experience – preferably ANSYS, encompassing structural and/or thermal analysis.
- Dynamic analysis experience – including shock and vibration.
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Benefits
- Collaborative working environment – teamwork under all conditions to support clients and colleagues.
- Empowerment of passionate technology-driven professionals to expand skills and participate in inspiring projects.
- Expleo Academy – access to accredited training courses.
- Competitive company benefits package.
- Culture of innovation where teams are encouraged to "think big" and challenge the status quo.
- Disability Confident Committed Employer, with a commitment to:
- Inclusive and accessible recruitment.
- Interviewing suitably qualified disabled candidates.
- Providing reasonable adjustments as required.
- Supporting employees with acquired disabilities or long-term health conditions.
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