Principal/Lead Mechanical Engineer

Job title: Principal/Lead Mechanical Engineer

Location: Rochester, Kent

Salary: Up to £65,000 dependent on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

The main duty of this role is to provide expert Mechanical Engineering support for the design and development of new innovative designs through to fault finding, diagnostics and repair of existing products:

• Using product knowledge and advanced engineering understanding, generate design concepts and solutions from first principals to meet project and customer requirements, this will be supported by sketches, hand calculations and associated data packs
• Taking a Design Authority role in checking and approving datasets (drawings/MBD) to ensure they correct to required standards, that they reflect design intent correctly, and that they adequately define parts for manufacture and inspection
• Take ownership of the design risk, and identify, define and manage work packages to de-risk areas of the product design early on in the lifecycle
• Be competent in the validation and verification of requirements using appropriate tools (e.g. DOORS) and managing these through the engineering life cycle
• Manage the work of senior and junior mechanical engineers and technicians and take technical responsibility for the design solutions and technical data packs produced. Work collaboratively across all engineering disciplines, liaising with technical specialists as required.
• Support the Team Leads, Projects, and Mechanical Functional Managers, in preparing estimates for future design activities

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Degree qualified in Mechanical Engineering, or related discipline, or an equivalent combination of other qualifications and experience
• Meet the requirements of UK-SPEC at the Chartered Engineer Level
• Comprehensive experience of the full product design lifecycle, from concept through to production, within an engineering environment
• Experience in preparing technical datasets (drawings/MBD) and design review datasets.
• Competence in the use of CAD tools to prepare design models

Desirable:

• Experience related to areas including avionic systems, optical displays, mechatronics, electronics packaging, anthropometrics, design with composites, additive layer manufacture and test and measurement equipment, will be of value in this role
• Experience in leading a mechanical, or cross-discipline, design team
• Proficiency in the CREO CAD system, and experience using TeamCenter, DOORs and JIRA

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Senior Mechanical Engineering Team:

The Mechanical Engineering Design team operates in a number of roles across the business – primarily supporting the development of new products by providing design and analysis services to all of the products in development across site, including head worn and cockpit display systems, flight controls, and active inceptor programmes. In addition to this, they play a vital role in supporting our internal production, and external customers, in producing, using and maintaining the equipment in service.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 12th March 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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