Senior Mechanical Engineer

Job title: Senior Mechanical Engineer

Location: Rochester, Kent

Salary: Up to £45,000 – £55,000 dependent on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Generate design concepts and solutions from first principles to meet project and customer requirements, supported by sketches, hand calculations, and associated data packs.
• Prepare and present engineering data packs for internal review and in a customer forum, check and approve datasets (drawings/MBD) to ensure they are correct to required standards, reflect design intent accurately, and adequately define parts for manufacture and inspection.
• Identify, define, and manage work packages to de-risk areas of the product design early in the lifecycle.
• Be competent in the validation and verification of requirements using appropriate tools (e.g., DOORS) and manage these through the engineering life cycle.
• Work collaboratively across all engineering disciplines, liaising with technical specialists as required.
• Manage the work of mechanical engineers and technicians, taking technical responsibility for the design solutions and technical data packs produced, and peer check the work of other mechanical engineers, including designs, design data, hand calculations, and technical reports.

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Meet the requirements of UK-SPEC at the Chartered Engineer Level.
• Proven track record of product development from concept through to production, with a strong technical ability to apply underpinning knowledge and experience to solve problems, including new technologies and innovations for complex engineering systems.
• Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related subject preferred, or demonstrable equivalent experience, with the ability to apply physics and engineering principles to derive/validate designs.
• Competence in the use of CAD tools (CREO preferred) to prepare design models and technical datasets (drawings/MBD).

Desirable:

• Experience in areas such as avionic systems, optical displays, mechatronics, electronics packaging, anthropometrics, design with composites, additive layer manufacture, and test and measurement equipment is valuable for this role.
• A capability to use specialist dynamic, structural, and thermal analysis tools is advantageous, including validation of the output of these tools.

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing, and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans, and shopping discounts. You may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Senior Mechanical Engineering Team:

This role will provide Mechanical Engineering support for the design and development of new innovative designs through to fault finding, diagnostics, and salvage of existing products.

A Senior Mechanical Engineer will have the ability to innovate and work with other Engineers/Technicians to develop ideas into a detailed scheme supported by calculations and reports to demonstrate compliance with requirements, including risk reduction testing as required. The expectation of a Senior Mechanical Engineer is to provide a high-quality service to customers, on time and within budget with minimum management oversight.

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 fulfill your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example, dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder, etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organization. All applicants must achieve at least the Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting, where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

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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