Wheel and Brake Engineer in Coventry

As a Mechanical Engineer, you’ll be responsible for the development of new Wheel & Brake equipment at Ansty Park as defined by customer and government requirements as well as internal standards. This encompasses adherence to performance, cost and schedule requirements. In this position you will also support our internal customers to ensure the business delivers its commitments to its contractual customers and operators.

Key Responsibilities

• Required to perform and check/approve performance calculations and simulations to validate that the equipment will meet the required design requirements.
• When required, lead / be responsible for the overall Wheel & Brake project.
• Creation, review and approval of technical requirement documents in accordance with government standards, company standards and customer requirements.
• Responsible for all phases of Wheel & Brake new product development including requirements management, requirements validation, design manufacturing phase, qualification / certification testing and initial entry into service.
• Responsible to ensure all program targets are satisfied, including technical performance, non-recurring costs, recurring costs and project schedule. This includes coordination with other Engineering functions to support the equipment development.
• Responsible for assisting and tracking of key metrics through the development process including non-recurring costs, design to cost, design maintenance costs, reliability, and weight for their assigned equipment.

Essential skills and experience you’ll need to be considered for this position

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant engineering experience.
• Experience with Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Geometrical Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T) and working knowledge of applicable manufacturing processes.
• Project management skills including cost and schedule tracking; Experience with Design Failure Mode and Effects (DFMEA) and Risk Analysis.
• Good communication skills – able to make presentations to customers and lead daily discussions with a group of engineers, designers and technicians.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Aerospace experience preferred, wheel and brake experience desirable.
• Aircraft Systems knowledge or experience preferred.
• Continuous Improvement training preferred.

What We Offer

Parker Meggitt is proud to offer a competitive total rewards framework designed with our colleagues’ health, wealth, and well-being in mind to help our employees balance a successful career. Our competitive package will include:

• 1 day working from home.
• Funded membership of a professional body.
• Focused career development planning with opportunities to progress.
• Pension scheme with up to 10% matching company contribution.
• Income protection scheme.
• Life Assurance x4 basic salary.
• Share buying scheme.
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, with the option to buy and sell up to 5 days.
• Service-related holiday (3 years = 1 day and increase up to max 5 days).
• Cash Plan or Private Medical Cover.
• Employee Assistance Program for Health & Wellbeing.
• Free on-site car parking.
• Employee Referral Scheme.
• An on-site restaurant and Starbucks offering subsidised food.
• Employee Perks – offering our employees discounts on a huge variety of goods and services.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Parker is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on grounds of age, race, religion, ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation or disability in relation to recruitment and employment.