Reporting to the Head of R&D, the primary role is to leverage technical expertise and experience to contribute to the development of products, technology, capability, and reliability across a wide range of products, whilst ensuring that best practice and the Company’s defined engineering processes are followed.
Key Responsibilities
* Working within a multi-discipline engineering team to meet the project requirements.
* Developing designs from concepts through to manufacturing detail, including manufacturing/assembly drawings, specifications of proprietary components, supporting calculations and reports.
* Maintaining a knowledge of current technical trends and innovation to assist in the development of current and future products.
* Hosting and participating in design reviews providing technical input throughput the development process.
* Supporting verification of fellow engineers’ designs.
* Developing the testing requirements for both prototype and product manufacture.
* Supporting build, commissioning, and trials of new products.
* Working within the budget to deliver safe, effective products, on-time and to specification.
* Working cross functionally (Commercial, Sales, Projects teams) within the business to improve efficiency and deliver effective products.
* Coaching team members to improve capabilities and develop their engineering knowledge/expertise.
Essential requirements
* A minimum of a 2:1 bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent.
* Working knowledge of hydraulic and control systems with significant experience working in a multi-disciplined engineering team.
* Developing designs from concepts through to manufacturing detail, including manufacturing/assembly drawings, specifications of proprietary components, supporting calculations and reports.
* Experience of working within medium to heavy Engineering R&D space.
* Expert user in modern engineering design tools (2D + 3D CAD, Analysis, etc)
Desirable requirements
* Chartered Engineer or working towards chartership with the IMechE (or another engineering institution).
* Experience of working on new product development is desirable.
* Proven experience leading a design team is advantageous.
Other requirements
* As a defence contractor, we have a number of security obligations placed upon the Company, which means that all our staff must be able to successfully achieve the relevant security clearances.
* You will be expected to support in-house training programmes, as required.
Working Conditions
* Mainly office based with visits to external customers (both UK and overseas) from time-to-time. Hybrid model can be discussed within reason.
* Working conditions whilst on customer sites may include working outside of normal business hours and being required to work in inclement/uncomfortable field conditions.