Senior Mechanical Integrator in Cardigan

Senior Mechanical Payload Integration Engineer – Aerospace & Defence- £50,000-£60,000

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Aberporth, West Wales | Hybrid | Permanent, Full-Time

Put Mission Payloads Into the Air

Are you a Senior Mechanical Engineer who enjoys solving complex integration problems and seeing your designs become real flight hardware?

This is an opportunity to work at the point where aircraft, payloads and mission capability come together — designing and integrating sophisticated sensors and mission systems onto high-performance uncrewed aircraft used across Defence, Security and Space.

You'll work closely with structural, aerodynamic and systems engineers, as well as payload manufacturers, to solve challenging mechanical integration problems and ensure hardware is ready for demanding operational environments.

You'll take ownership of a broad range of mechanical integration challenges, including:

• Designing custom mounting brackets, adapter plates, pods and structural interfaces for sensors and mission equipment
• Creating detailed 3D CAD models, production drawings, BOMs and assembly documentation
• Performing FEA, thermal assessments and structural evaluations to validate your designs
• Assessing payload mass, centre of gravity and aerodynamic impacts across different flight conditions
• Troubleshooting fitment, structural, vibration and shock issues during integration and flight trials
• Working with structural analysts and aerodynamicists to optimise aircraft and payload interfaces
• Collaborating with manufacturers to deliver hardware using CNC machining, additive manufacturing and composites
• Supporting testing, validation and qualification of integrated payload systems
• Getting hands-on with hardware and resolving problems when the design meets the real world

This isn't a role where you hand a design over and move on. You'll be involved from engineering concept through to hardware, testing and flight.

What Makes This Opportunity Different?

You'll work on problems that sit across traditional engineering boundaries. xgikmsk

A successful payload integration engineer needs to understand more than brackets and drawings. You'll consider structural loads, vibration, thermal behaviour, mass properties, aerodynamic effects, manufacturing constraints and the practical realities of installing and operating mission equipment on an ...