Senior Mechanical Engineer in Barrow in Furness

2 vacancies available in Barrow at a rate of £59.33 per hour umbrella (inside of IR35) for an initial duration of 12 months.

Responsibilities include:

• Leading the development of solutions to technical issues as a member of an integrated project team, reporting to Technical Leads and directly to the customer.
• Developing design solutions based on customer or internally derived requirements, validating, and verifying through the design process.
• Reviewing and checking design work and technical reports, providing help and direction to less experienced engineers.
• Carrying out technical analysis and investigations, and preparing reports with suggested recommendations to support the resolution of problems and the improvement of engineering capability.
• Planning, delivering, and monitoring assigned projects or work packages, ensuring that requirements are delivered to plan.
• Populating design development documentation using a Formal Design Review process through the stages of Requirements & Root Cause Analysis, Developing Candidate Solutions, Candidate down selection and risk reduction, Development for manufacture, Qualification, and Concept generation and development of weapons sub systems.
• Developing designs in line with requirements and all quality and technical standards.
• Performing technical investigations, including evaluation of technical options, supporting calculations and preparation of reports with recommendations.
• Participating in internal and external meetings or design reviews.
• Defining and controlling interfaces via interface control drawings and space envelopes.
• Ensuring that the product will operate safely and reliably in the military operating environment, and can be manufactured cost effectively.
• Preparing 3D models, 2D drawings, and other technical outputs, consistent with the contractual requirements to meet target dates and budget demands.
• Supporting quality related to production NCR's (non-conformance reports) and first article inspection.
• Interfacing with related supporting functions such as Procurement and Quality.
• Designing components for ease of manufacture and aiding in productionisation of products.

Essential Experience / Skills:

• Working experience using CAD software (ideally PTC Creo Parametric).
• Previous production, manufacturing and assembly experience.
• Familiarity with engineering drawing standards and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing.
• Working knowledge of technical office processes, standards and standard instructions (i.e. Business Management System (BMS) and the Life Cycle Model (LCM)).
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Presentation / report writing skills.

Desirable Experience / Skills:

• Engineering background in a weapons system or design for military use.
• Working experience using Product Lifecycle Management software (ideally Teamcenter).
• Structural / Stress analysis (MS Excel, Mathcad, FEA {PTC Simulate / Ansys}).
• Material selection and manufacturing techniques.