Principal Mechanical Design Engineer

Within this role you will have the opportunity to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to perform a range of engineering activities including progressing developmental designs into production environments and working with suppliers on technical queries. \n \n Responsibilities: \n • Carry out Mechanical Design and proving activities as part of a wider team for prime and variant products, of both piece parts and assemblies. \n • Support/liaise with manufacturing, resolving manufacturing problems & defects.

\n • Support to functional & environmental testing and trials. \n • Liaise with suppliers/purchasing to resolve any technical queries that may arise. \n • Planning and reporting on own day-to-day activities to meet project milestones.

\n • Gain clarification of and help to generate requirements, including challenging of extraneous requirements to reduce lead time, UPC and design complexity \n Skillset/experience required: \n \n • Experience using Creo 3D design tool \n \n Knowledge of several of the following: \n • Manufacturing processes \n • Tolerance studies \n • Environmental test \n • Mass property calculations \n • Material selection \n • FMEA \n • Design for Manufacture/Assembly \n • Environmental Gasket Sealing \n • Structural design \n • Defence Standards \n • Review processes \n • Product Lifecycles \n • Industrial validation \n • An ability to work as part of a multifunctional engineering team and be able to partake in or host design reviews. \n • An appreciation of other engineering areas/domains