Job Description - Principal/Lead Mechanical Engineer (00124634)
Job title: Principal/Lead Mechanical Engineer
Salary: Up to £65,000 dependent on skills and experience
What you’ll be doing:
* Provide expert Mechanical Engineering support for the design and development of new innovative designs through to fault finding, diagnostics and repair of existing products.
* Using product knowledge and advanced engineering understanding, generate design concepts and solutions from first principles to meet project and customer requirements, supported by sketches, hand calculations, and associated data packs.
* Take a Design Authority role in checking and approving datasets (drawings/MBD) to ensure they meet required standards and reflect design intent correctly.
* Take ownership of the design risk, identifying, defining, and managing work packages to de-risk areas of product design early in the lifecycle.
* Be competent in the validation and verification of requirements using appropriate tools (e.g. DOORS) and managing these through the engineering lifecycle.
* Manage the work of senior and junior mechanical engineers and technicians, taking technical responsibility for the design solutions and technical data packs produced.
* Support Team Leads, Projects, and Mechanical Functional Managers in preparing estimates for future design activities.
Your skills and experiences:
* Degree qualified in Mechanical Engineering, or related discipline, or an equivalent combination of qualifications and experience.
* Meet the requirements of UK-SPEC at the Chartered Engineer Level.
* Comprehensive experience of the full product design lifecycle, from concept through to production, within an engineering environment.
* Experience in preparing technical datasets (drawings/MBD) and design review datasets.
* Competence in the use of CAD tools to prepare design models.
* Experience related to areas including avionic systems, optical displays, mechatronics, electronics packaging, anthropometrics, design with composites, additive layer manufacture, and test and measurement equipment.
* Experience in leading a mechanical or cross-discipline design team.
* Proficiency in the CREO CAD system, and experience using TeamCenter, DOORs, and JIRA.
The Senior Mechanical Engineering Team:
The Mechanical Engineering Design team operates in a number of roles across the business, primarily supporting the development of new products by providing design and analysis services to all products in development across the site.
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential.
Closing Date: 12th March 2025
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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