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Senior Structural and Mechanical Systems Engineer
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Job Title: Senior Structural and Mechanical Systems Engineer
Job Type
Onsite
Work Type
Permanent
Hours
37.5hrs per week
Industry
Space
Job Location
Surrey
Salary
Negotiable DoE
Job Profile – Senior Structural and Mechanical Systems Engineer
Our client is the world leader in the development of complex systems utilised in mission critical environments. Candidates will have the opportunity to work in an advanced manufacturing environment where pioneering new technologies to the highest possible standard is paramount.
Job Role – Senior Structural and Mechanical Systems Engineer
Reporting to the Mechanical Design & Analysis Functional Manager the Senior Structural and Mechanical Systems Engineer shall undertake a combination of structural design, analysis, and testing activities, as well as supporting the development of mechanical systems to ensure reliable operation in demanding environments. This work focuses on delivering innovative and robust solutions for platform structures and mechanical systems.
Duties – Senior Structural and Mechanical Systems Engineer
- Serve as the Technical Lead for structural and mechanical system design.
- Develop and maintain schedules and budgets for mechanical and structural Work Packages, reporting budget and schedule deviations and managing risks.
- Identify, monitor, and mitigate structural and mechanical systems risks.
- Flow down customer requirements to subsystem and hardware levels, ensuring compliance and validation.
- Define, organise, and implement structural development, qualification, and validation plans.
- Develop and manage analytical models for structures and subsystems using FEA, performing static, dynamic, and quasi-static analyses to validate numerical results with test data and determine structural margins of safety.
- Refine numerical models to ensure alignment with experimental data.
- Derive environmental envelope specifications from launch documentation, analytical results, and test data.
- Manage structural and system mass properties including mass, centre of gravity and moments/ products of inertia.
- Define, organise, and lead structural testing (vibration, static, acoustic, shock, and mass properties).
- Maintain design/analysis logs, document analysis activities, and write test and compliance reports.
- Present work at internal and external reviews, ensuring effective communication and reporting.
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Experience/Qualifications – Senior Structural and Mechanical Systems Engineer
- Degree in relevant engineering discipline (mechanical, mechatronic etc.)
- Experience of Nastran, HyperMesh, SmartOffice, MATLAB, Ansys Workbench, SolidWorks
- Analysis of both lightweight metallic and composite materials to provide margin of safety/reserve factors using a combination of hand stressing and FEA.
- Experience of spacecraft level static, dynamic and thermo-elastic analysis using the latest FEA tools.
- Experience of mechanical testing such as vibration, static and shock.
Candidates who are currently a Systems Engineer, Structural Engineer, Analysis Engineer, Stress Engineer, Structural Design Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, FEA Engineer and Systems Design Engineer could be suitable for this role.
To make an application for this role please submit your CV to or for more information call 01453829529.
For details of other opportunities available within your chose field please visit our website
Omega is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Omega does not charge candidates any recruitment or job-seeking fees at any stage of the hiring process.
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