QinetiQ
Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
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Package: £52,425 - £58,250 (salary dependent on experience) + Benefits
Role ID: SF19901
Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow, we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to groundbreaking innovations, our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer at our Gosport site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.
The Role
As a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer, you 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.
Day-to-day, you’ll will explore and test the problem space thoroughly, guiding others in generating their own hardware solutions and be prepared to lead and coordinate the reviews and testing of these ideas at design reviews and group critiques to delight customers.
Ideally, you will have either gained significant and wide-ranging experience in geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, CAD modelling using NX, configuration control using Teamcenter, and composites manufacture and/or design for composites manufacture. Or have gained significant and wide-ranging experience in to distill large numbers of requirements into a product solution, Design For Manufacture (DFM) and Design For Assembly (DFA) understanding. For example, cable runs, space claims and management of interfaces and associated risks particularly during staged release for manufacture.
Your Responsibilities
- Reviews: This role involves guiding others and coordinating subject-matter experts through design reviews, including running pre-reviews and chairing internal or lower-level customer reviews, with the potential to progress to full Design Review Chair competency
- Delivery: This role plays a key part in live continuous improvement during delivery, leading and coordinating technical teams to produce optimized designs and clear, detailed reports
- Technical: This role involves providing confident advice and presentations to customers, stakeholders and peers, while driving high technical and professional standards through inventive problem solving and recognized best practice
- Governance: This role requires a solid understanding of safety engineering tools and how they are applied across the project lifecycle, including compiling HAZID outputs and contributing to Design Safety Cases
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Essential Experience
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:
- Hazard Identification, Safety Cases & Safety Management systems
- Applying Analytical, Simulation and Modelling Techniques
- Materials Selection, Coatings & Corrosion
- Concept Design & Development
- Significant experience creating technical drawings from 3D Models in Siemens NX, working with suppliers, manufacturers, customers, and subject matter experts
Essential Qualifications
- HNC/HND/Degree in Aeronautical or Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design or Product Design (or equivalent experience)
- Industrial Design, Mechanical Engineering, Product Design degree or equivalent (desirable)
- Should be a member of a recognized professional institution, be maintaining CPD and hold, or be working towards, CEng registration
We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
Job Details
This role is 37 hours per week based at our Gosport site with an average site attendance of five days per week. Role primarily requires working on-site with limited opportunity for remote work. Adaptive working is available which includes flexible start and finish times with compressed hours options.
Haslar
Our facilities at the Haslar Marine Technology Park are state-of-the-art, including our ocean basin rotating arm, and marine towing tank, offering an unparalleled environment for testing and refining designs. Our marine technology offers our global customers a service to deliver constrained hydrodynamic model tests of surface ships, submarines, offshore structures, and renewable energy devices.
Why Join QinetiQ?
As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.
As a QinetiQ employee, you’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experiences enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture. www.qinetiq.com/en/careers/life-at-qinetiq
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Our Benefits
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Generous holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days
- Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
- Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more
- We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
- Volunteering Opportunities - helping charities and local community
Our Recruitment Process
We want to make sure that our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible and we aspire to bring out the best in our candidates by creating an environment where everyone feels valued, heard and supported. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your Recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed, applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which means factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.
Please note that all applicants for this role must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.
UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
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