Principal Mechanical Design Engineer

At Quest Global, we are seeking a highly experienced engineer to join our team as a Principal Mechanical Engineer in the Aerospace and Defence industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and line management to the team, coordinating and overseeing their workloads, providing support to ensure that the team delivers, monitoring any issues, and ensuring timescales, KPIs and deadlines are met to meet the requirements of the customer.
• Develop the team by focusing on individual performance and support requirements to achieve high standards.
• Work on multiple major projects of the highest complexity requiring forefront-of-field, innovative solutions.
• Act independently at the organisational level, being self‑supervising, within guidance and expectations of customers.
• Lead non‑conformance support and improvements.
• Champion quality deliverables for simulation as well as continuous improvements included within your owned delivery stream.
• Contribute to the creation and implementation of best practice engineering vision, strategy, policies, processes and procedures to aid and improve operational performance.
• Capture and specify the design requirements General and Task Management.
• Lead complex major projects requiring forefront-of-the-field, innovative, original solutions, providing technical expertise to the team.
• Participate in internal and external design reviews and be responsible for design acceptance by the client.
• Make independent decisions on issues, providing expert technical support within Mechanical Engineering.
• Lead projects in a multi‑discipline environment and coordinate all Mechanical engineering and design, with other disciplines, Process, transmission systems, Gears, Gear box and Marine engineering.
• Strive for continuous improvement and drive your area of delivery autonomously, with particular focus on non‑conformance process improvements and preventive measures.

Required Skills (Technical Competency)

• Design proficiency in Transformation systems, Gears, Gear box and Marine engineering.
• Experience with the production of mechanical specifications, scopes of work, calculations, drawings and schedules.
• Analyse and manage multiple design related issues to identify root cause.
• Modify designs based on the analysis to re‑test and analyse until design meets specification requirements.
• Make design changes on existing products and track them.
• Write reports and present progress at project meetings and to clients.
• Have an appreciation with the main design packages including, Solid Edge, Siemens NX, AutoCAD etc.
• Result oriented. You are only satisfied after your engineering and design is accepted by the client, you delivered top quality and the client is very satisfied with the performance of you and your team.
• You can chair design review meetings.
• You have pleasure in teaching and coaching the young generation Mechanical engineers and designers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's/master’s degree in engineering or a related field.
• Previous experience in a similar role within the Aerospace and Defence industry.
• Preferably a Chartered Engineer.
• Experience in heavy engineering industry, power transmission systems, gears and gear box.
• Strong knowledge of quality management systems and industry standards (e.g., AS9100, ISO 9001).
• Proficient in root cause analysis and failure mode analysis techniques.
• Excellent problem‑solving and analytical skills.
• Detail‑oriented with a strong focus on team, quality and continuous improvement.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Due to security requirements these posts are open to SOLE UK NATIONALS ONLY.