BAE Systems
Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
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Senior Mechanical Design Engineer x 2
12 month contract
£59.33 per hour (Inside IR35)
2-3 days a week on site - LA14
Lead the development of solutions to technical issues as a member of an integrated project team, reporting to Technical Leads and directly to the customer.
- Developing design solutions based on customer or internally derived requirements, validating, and verifying through the design process.
- Review and check design work and technical reports, providing help and direction to less experienced engineers.
- Carrying out technical analysis and investigations, and preparing reports with suggested recommendations to support the resolution of problems and the improvement of engineering capability.
- Planning, delivering, and monitoring assigned projects or work packages, ensuring that requirements are delivered to plan.
- Populate design development documentation using a Formal Design Review process through the stages of:
- Requirements & Root Cause Analysis
- Developing Candidate Solutions
- Candidate down selection and risk reduction
- Development for manufacture
- Qualification
- Concept generation and development of weapons sub systems.
- Develop designs in line with requirements and all quality and technical standards.
- Perform technical investigations, including evaluation of technical options, supporting calculations and preparation of reports with recommendations.
- Participate in internal and external meetings or design reviews.
- Definition and control of interfaces via interface control drawings and space envelopes.
- Ensuring that the product will operate safely and reliably in the military operating environment, and can be manufactured cost effectively.
- Preparing 3D models, 2D drawings, and other technical outputs, consistent with the contractual requirements to meet target dates and budget demands.
- Support quality related to production NCR’s (non-conformance reports) and first article inspection.
- Interface with related supporting functions such as Procurement and Quality.
- Design of components for ease of manufacture and aiding in productionisation of products.
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Essential Experience / Skills:
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- Working experience using CAD software (ideally PTC Creo Parametric)
- Previous production, manufacturing and assembly experience
- Familiarity with engineering drawing standards and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing
- Working knowledge of technical office processes, standards and standard instructions (i.e. Business Management System (BMS) and the Life Cycle Model (LCM))
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Presentation / report writing skills
Desirable Experience / Skills:
- Engineering background in a weapons system or design for military use
- Working experience using Product Lifecycle Management software (ideally Teamcenter)
- Structural / Stress analysis (MS Excel, Mathcad, FEA {PTC Simulate / Ansys})
- Material selection and manufacturing techniques
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