Mechanical Design Engineer

Mechanical Design Engineer

Location: Bristol, 4 days per week on-site; 1 day remote (flexible start/finish times). Duration: 6 months (extension possible) Rate: £40-£50 per hour (Umbrella) IR35: Inside Clearance: SC (potential BPSS start); UK Eyes Only

Overview

An opportunity to join a multidisciplinary engineering team supporting the development of complex defence products. You'll work closely with other functional teams to progress developmental designs into production environments, and support suppliers/manufacturing with technical queries and delivery against milestones.

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
• 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