Weights Engineer
Location: Bristol - Minimum 1 day per week on site
Salary: £46,000 - £52,000
Industry: Defence, Marine Engineering, Naval Architecture
The Weight Engineering Team are a multi-disciplinary Team of Engineers and Data Scientists who estimate, collate and present mass properties data for a number of multi billion pound maritime programmes.
The Weight Engineering team are a specialist team who play a critical role in the whole boat design and assuring whole boat safety.
What the role of the Weights Engineer entails:
Some of the main duties of the Weights Engineer will include:
Collate mass property data for equipment and systems to deliver weight and centroid control on multi billion pound maritime programmes
Support the Mass Properties Lead to aggregate weight and centroid reports and present the status to the Chief Naval Architect
Collaborate with system design engineers to accurate estimate mass, centroid and design maturity of multiple mechanical and electronic systems
Maintain a comprehensive database of parts mass properties
Provide input to and lead weight saving strategies and maintain the list of weight risk and opportunities for each discipline area
Interrogate CAD models to determine estimates for mass properties with associated uncertainties
Utilise statistical analysis to provide a whole boat picture of weight risk and opportunity to senior leaders, stakeholders and our customersWhat experience you need to be ...