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Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Location: Denham

Up to £55,000 + benefits

A leading aerospace manufacturing organisation is looking for a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join their busy team based in Uxbridge.

Responsibilities:

• The position is responsible for generating design concepts in line with regulatory and customer requirements and in line with the engineering specification.
• It also requires the production of commercially viable product definition information (PDI) including 3D models, detail, and assembly engineering drawings.
• Supporting the Team Lead/Principal Design Engineer in conducting trade studies into potential engineering solutions to determine the best, most commercially sound solution within the given parameters whilst optimising manufacturability using 3D CAD.
• Mentoring and training of junior personnel may also be required, depending on skills and experience.
• Carrying out all necessary performance and structural calculations via hand calculations and other software tools such as spreadsheets and finite element analysis etc. to support design development.
• Producing top level design layouts from which detailed parts may be developed.
• Calling and chairing design reviews as required.
• Producing and maintaining engineering PDI in accordance with engineering procedures.
• Consulting extensively with associates and others, with a high degree of reliance placed on scientific interpretation and advice.
• Developing and maintaining cost and mass models for products.
• Producing and presenting design review presentations to internal and external customers.
• Produce a variety of detailed reports including eg CE marking technical files, load and stress reports.
• Checking engineering drawings for functionality and correctness and ensuring drawing complies with Engineering Drawing Best Practice.
• Produce quality 3D models, suitable for downstream consumption by CAM and CMM (Inspection) software.
• Generating a variety of engineering documents including reports, eg Mass Reports, Costed BOMs, DFMEAs etc.

Experience/Skills required:

• Degree in engineering
• Managing design projects under tight time and quality constraints.
• Experience of full design process, ideally gained from designing machines or test equipment which involved gaining CE certification.
• Experience in areas such as geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, layout of engineering drawings in relation to US/UK standards.
• Knowledge of finite element techniques.
• Experience using NX and Teamcenter, ANSYS

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