Mechanical Design Engineer
- Posted 2024-11-27
- Job ID: 33362
Mechanical Design Engineer
Portsmouth, Hampshire
Reports to Head of Engineering
SYR are proud to represent a leader in maritime technology and engineering!
With a big focus on decarbonisation & sustainability, this company is leaps and bounds above most with its niche projects!
Key responsibilities:
- Working within an integrated, multi-disciplinary design and development team to generate design concepts through to production, ensuring that proposed design solutions meet all project requirements for function, quality, timing and cost.
- Working on a variety of projects, anything from 40m fabricated WindWing® structures for series production, to a one-off prototype for a small foiling vessel.
- Take a key role within a large programme or lead a smaller project, working closely with the technical lead engineer.
- Taking responsibility to deliver the design of components and systems meeting the company processes and standards.
- Contribute to the continual improvement and development of methodologies and toolsets to enhance our processes and techniques to stay at the forefront of innovation.
- Support pre-contract and concept generation, through feasibility, to support early-stage planning and requirements generation.
- Lead and develop junior team members.
- Completing hand calculations for mechanical fixings, inserts and bonded joints.
- Technical liaison with customers, suppliers, manufacturing, and internal stakeholders.
- Support business development activities and creation of customer proposals.
- Support project management activities and monitor project plans and progress.
- Balancing multiple concurrent projects, understand your working priorities and clearly show progress, delivery status, and key risks and issues.
- Supporting with physical build, evaluation, and validation
- Supporting the compilation of DFMEA’s
- Management of external resource in conjunction with line manager
We are looking for
- A degree in mechanical, automotive, marine or aerospace engineering.
- Extensive experience in the use of a major CAD system (NX ideally) to produce detailed drawings to a high standard with the correct application of GD&T and DFM as necessary.
- Excellent understanding of mechanical engineering principles, and application through use of design calculations.
- Experience in designing both metallic and composite components would be ideal.
- Excellent understanding of materials, welding, bonding, and fastening techniques.
- Some familiarity of hands-on workshop activities like fabrication, CNC machining would be desirable.
- Extensive experience with classical hand calculations and creating own calculation sheets.
- Experience in the use of FEA tools to accelerate development and support with validation of the design would be preferable.
- A working Knowledge of TeamCentre and Siemens SimCentre would be advantageous.
- Understanding of production manufacturing techniques would be desirable.
- Ability to coach and supervise more junior engineers, and to delegate as appropriate.
- Must be able to work within a close-knit team taking and giving instruction as appropriate.
- Project management experience would be an advantage.
- Committed to taking ownership of allocated tasks and determined to achieve challenging tasks and be self-motivated.
- Attention to detail, be accurate at all times, and apply appropriate validation techniques.