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Description

Senior Design Engineer

Our Client has been supplying the international defence market since 1946. They work closely with their customers to refine user and system requirements, with a view to developing operational and product concepts providing exceptional value for money solutions. A wide range of state of the art tools are used to develop solutions to meet the challenging performance specifications required by their military customers.

The Role:

To manage a team of designers in a pro-active manner
To undertake specific tasks to achieve the engineering outputs to programme, cost and specification in accordance with the Engineering and Project Management Procedures
To manage the generation of all design outputs from the engineering department
To work with designers to ensure consistent designs of high quality and to budget
To encourage and assist designers on all technical issues pertaining to products
Is the point of contact for all technical issues on his/her nominated project

Responsibilities:

Defining project design requirements, programmes and design control lists
Produce and maintain the project file
Design products as directed by the projects department, including costs and scope of supply
Ensure product design meets the contract requirements
Management of Design Costs and Programme in accordance with the Design Control List
Check that design packages contain all the information required by production planning
Produce technical specifications for major bought out items
Ensure that designs are safe and meet all statutory requirements
Ensure that test schedules are produced
Assist purchasing with technical queries
Manage design element of bids and impart technical experience to the bid team
Check and authorise designs, drawings, Items lists and product build standards
Issuing Design Office Issue / Amendment Sheets
Product build standard and document configuration control
Ensure that Advance Purchase Requisitions are released in accordance with the programme
Attendance at meetings and Design Reviews
Ensure that queries and Inspection Reports are resolved and responded to in a timely manner
Ensure that all relevant analyses has been performed according to the requirements

Requirements:

HNC/Degree in Engineering or lower qualification supplemented with additional experience

Good breadth of Mechanical Engineering knowledge required

Design to Cost for Manufacture and Assembly

Knowledge of Drawing Systems, Product Structures, Build Standards and Configuration Control

Experienced Inventor 11 user or equivalent 3D CAD package (subject to contract requirements)

Knowledge of Word, Excel, required

Personnel management and the ability to delegate

Ability to create a team spirit to encourage efficient output

Extensive/Specialist/technical knowledge & understanding in a design environment

Benefits:

Pension
25 days holiday
Flexible working hours
Gym membership
Relocation
Discount on new Cars, MOTs, Services, Parts & Labour