Mechanical Design Engineer

Job Description

An experienced Agile Systems Integrator for Robotic & Autonomous Systems in Air, Land & Sea company is looking for an experienced Mechanical Maintenance Engineer to support Head of Engineering on multidisciplinary design challenges involved in the development of unmanned systems. This represents an exciting opportunity to provide technical leadership of innovative products including requirement management, design, integration, manufacturing and testing.

Benefits Include

• Salary: 55,000 Per Annum
• Progression and ongoing Training
• Work in a small, friendly company on the cutting edge of swarm autonomy.
• See your work in action flying on our own fleet of custom-built UAVs.
• Employee Assistance Programme.

Duties

• Day-to-day CAD design and management of multidisciplinary design requirements, not only structural or mechanical, but also involving aerodynamics, electronics, software and flight trials.
• First-pass analysis (basic FEA, basic CFD) of implementable design solutions using analysis suites as part of CAD packages (preferably Solidworks).
• Define the design, integration and test activities during development of both R&D and product contracts.
• Product design innovation, based on research into technical plans for prototypes using Computer Assisted Engineering (CAE) and Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) software.
• Select suitable manufacturing methods for rapid prototyping, incl. wet-layup for developmental composite parts.
• Preparing user requirements, concept of operations (CONOPS), technical specifications, design specifications, Bill of Materials (BoM) configuration control, product specifications, commissioning plans, DFMEAs and risk assessments.
• Payload integration, with understanding of impacts on aircraft performance and of holistic optimisation at aircraft design stage.

Qualifications

• BEng/ CEng in Mechanical/ Aerospace Engineering X.
• Proficient in CAD (ideally Solidworks), related CAE (FEA/ CFD) and CAM rapid prototyping.
• Health and Safety qualification (IOSH or NEBOSH).
• Understanding of DFMEA and risk assessment techniques in aerospace environment.
• Technical management of complex electro-mechanical systems.
• Payload integration (e.g. Optical, RF, DEW, etc).
• Aircraft design methods and aircraft performance estimation.
• All-Electric Propulsion System integration (incl. eVTOL).

Skills

• Good analytical and communication skills
• Strong technical leadership competencies
• Attention to detail balanced with high process overview/improvements
• Confident and articulate with good communication skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent organisation skills

Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.

Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.