Job title: Principal/Lead Mechanical Engineer Location: Rochester, Kent
Salary: Up to £65,000 dependent on skills and experience
What you’ll be doing:
The main duty of this role is to 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 principals to meet project and customer requirements, this will be supported by sketches, hand calculations and associated data packs
Taking a Design Authority role in checking and approving datasets (drawings/MBD) to ensure they correct to required standards, that they reflect design intent correctly, and that they adequately define parts for manufacture and inspection
Take ownership of the design risk, and identify, define and manage work packages to de-risk areas of the product design early on in the lifecycle
Be competent in the validation and verification of requirements using appropriate tools (e.g. DOORS) and managing these through the engineering life cycle
Manage the work of senior and junior mechanical engineers and technicians and take technical responsibility for the design solutions and technical data packs produced. Work collaboratively across all engineering disciplines, liaising with technical specialists as required.
Support the Team Leads, Projects, and Mechanical Functional Managers, in preparing estimates for future design activities
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
Degree qualified in Mechanical Engineering, or related discipline, or an equivalent combination of other 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.