Senior Mechanical Design Engineer in Amesbury

Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer at our Boscombe Down site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.

The Role: As a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer, you will be leading the delivery of mechanical design solutions and taking ownership of delivery on complex tasks, requiring high integrity engineering and managing complex, unusual tasks involving significant challenges.

Day-to-day, you’ll support numerous aircraft modifications and ship designs. Each team will have unique engineering focuses and will explore and test the problem space thoroughly, guiding others in generating their own hardware solutions and be prepared to lead and co-ordinate the reviews and testing of these ideas at design reviews.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Reviews: Guiding others and corral SMEs at design reviews and hold pre-reviews. Responsible for bringing together and chairing engineering reviews.
• Delivery: Directly contributes to continuous improvement.
• Technical: Providing advice or presentation to customers, stakeholders and peers.
• Governance: Managing the quality assurance and authoring processes.

Essential experience of the Senior Mechanical Design Engineer:

• Experience designing technical hardware solutions, ideally from a regulated industry requiring complex problem solving, precision tolerances or specific domain knowledge.
• Significant experience creating technical drawings from 3D models, working with suppliers, manufacturers, customers, and subject matter experts.
• Function without supervision on a day-to-day basis and be capable of providing guidance and advice to less experienced practitioners.
• Deep understanding of budgets, group behaviour, patterns of behaviour and using this to deliver to time quality, cost.
• Hazard identification, safety cases and safety management systems.
• Knowledge and understanding of engineering fundamentals.

Essential qualifications for the Senior Mechanical Design Engineer:

• HNC/HND/Degree in Aeronautical, Electrical, Electronic or Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design or Product Design.

This role is 37 hours per week based at our Boscombe Down site with a minimum average site attendance of four days per week. Compressed hours are available for a nine-day fortnight.

Boscombe Down MOD is a unique operational site featuring the longest military runway in the UK, primarily focusing on providing testing, evaluation and support services for aviation and aerospace systems. Renowned for its extensive flight testing capabilities, the site plays a vital role in the UK’s aviation defence contributing to the development, testing and airworthiness of military aircraft enhancing operational readiness and effectiveness.

Why Join QinetiQ? As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges. As a QinetiQ employee, you’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experiences enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey.

Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential.

Our Benefits:

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
• Generous holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days.
• Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance.
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more.
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
• Volunteering opportunities - helping charities and local community.

Our Recruitment Process: We want to make sure that our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible and we aspire to bring out the best in our candidates by creating an environment where everyone feels valued, heard and supported. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your Recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please note that all applicants for this role must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.