Hybrid Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

at Ultra Intelligence & Communications

• Job title: Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Mechanical Engineer at Ultra Precision Control Systems delivering designs for defence & aerospace equipment. Collaborating on complex engineering projects ensuring safety and functionality.

Responsibilities

• Able to prepare technical documents and design and develop product data to their functional domain level with no supervision.
• Support the design intent, delivering design solutions to meet project schedule & budget requirements.
• Apply and scrutinise requirements of a project with no supervision.
• Be able to technically interface with operations and supply chain ensuring the design intent is met and requirements achieved, applying developing DFM / DFT practices throughout.
• Assist in preparing and reviewing engineering estimates & bids, including identifying risks and dependencies within and across functions.
• Effective communication skills.
• Capable of presenting ideas and proposals to peers and line managers, including presenting at external design reviews (with some support).
• Ability to liaise with support functions (Commercial, Finance, Supply chain etc)
• Awareness of PLM tool s .
• Competent at Configuration and Change management and security marking aspects of all types of documentation and drawings.
• Fully understands the security aspects of what we do, commercial export licences and their need and ITAR requirements.
• Capable of Assisting in failure investigations and recommending appropriate solutions , reporting findings to management and customers.
• Support the resolution of technical challenges, supporting other engineers in the relevant domain.
• Capable of leading small technical work packages within a project guiding other engineers as required to help meet schedule, budget and quality.
• Competent at authoring complex assemblies and drawings & models using one or more of the company selected CAD tools .
• Competent at interpreting and layout drawings, all dimensioning, applying linear and geometric tolerances to British and International Standards, contributes to the companies own Draughting Standard Manual.
• Competent at designing electrical wiring assemblies, has an appreciation of working with electronic PCB assemblies and other sub-assemblies in electromechanical designs, with input to the electronics design and PCB layout, software and systems activities.
• Competent at FEA analysis and reporting.
• Competent at designing for manufacture and production processes.
• Competent understanding of project and engineering lifecycles and required activities within own discipline.
• Technically competent to assess and manage technical risk in their area and honestly present the detail and the wider impact
• Able to communicate succinctly and accurately on technical issues and schemes with internal and external customers and the team.
• Proactively able to manage own work
• Uses own initiative and makes timely decisions within the scope of the role and is financially aware of the consequences of decisions.
• Good application of Microsoft packages and relevant software for the role.

Requirements

• Relevant qualifications to an appropriate level , typically a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience, with significant post-qualification experience in a range of roles within a relevant complex engineering environment.
• Preferably a Chartered engineer or equivalent with a recognised professional engineering institution
• Experience with mechanical aspects of PCB & Enclosure design, with focus on designing for EMI & EMC.
• Familiarity with aerospace materials & manufacturing methods
• Understanding of airworthiness and safety for certification.
• Understands DO - 160 and other environmental requirements.

Benefits

• Flexible working within core working hours
• 25 days holiday (185 hrs) with the option to buy/sell 5 days (37 hrs) plus bank holidays
• 4 times your annual salary in life assurance
• Flexible benefits package
• Pension Scheme - Less than 5 years' service up to 5.5% employer contributions, 5 years' service + up to 7.5% employer contributions.
• Sports and Social club
• Supportive and friendly working environment with regular team events