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PRINCIPAL MECHANICAL ENGINEER

Employment Type Permanent
Location Hertfordshire , Stevenage
Industry Sector Mechanical
Start Date N/A
Salary/Rate £excellent package
Reference J5006
Date Advertised 23-10-2008 - 08:24

This vacancy is out of date and no longer accepting applications.

Description

The successful candidate will have the following skills and knowledge:
Significant practical experience and/or suitable vocational qualificatiion
Experience across all aspects of a single engineering area/domain and an appreciation of other areas

Principal Mechanical Engineer

To undertake a full range of engineering activities in line with all relevant process, quality and other requirements, supplying specialist advice and support across projects and to other functions as appropriate

The successful candidate will have the following skills and knowledge:
Significant practical experience and/or suitable vocational qualificatiion
Experience across all aspects of a single engineering area/domain and an appreciation of other areas
Able to work from first principles
Specialist knowledge in at least one area; possibly recognised (or beginning to be recognised) as an expert
Good working experiences in more than one phase of the engineering life cycle, with sufficient experience of the total life cycle to ensure a good understanding of adjacent phases and through-life engineering issues
Commercial and financial awareness; able to manage budgets
Understanding of business strategy
Capable of managing projects/work packages
People and team management capabilities
Able to mentor other, more junior staff, as appropriate
Able to deal with multiple issues, tasks and priorities concurrently
Good understanding of other parts of the business
Substantial analytical and problem solving skills
Knowledge of the competition and suppliers
Knowledge of customer and user requirements
Full understanding of relevant engineering and quality standards
Communicates verbally and in writing in a style appropriate to the audience; proven presentation skills
Organisational/co-ordination experience; ability to work with and through others
Up to date knowledge of all issues in relevant specialist area(s)

A Full job description is available on web site: mylen co uk

Successful candidates will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment.

Mylen Recruitment Ltd is a recruitment agency specialising in Design, Mechanical, Electronic, Production, IT, Software, Automotive and Aviation Engineering.