Job Description

Overview:

Job Title: Principal Design Engineer / Assistant Chief Engineer - Driveline and Transmission Systems

Location:

Leamington Spa UK, Shoreham-by-Sea UK / Hybrid

Role ID:

2025-3123

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo, member of WSP, is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

Purpose

Ricardo's A&I Division are seeking an enthusiastic and dynamic

Principal Design Engineer / Assistant Chief Engineer

, you will be a part of the

Global Mechanical Design

team responsible for leading activities in the design of a wide range of

Driveline & Transmission Systems

for a variety of market sectors (Automotive, Aerospace, Defense, Marine, Clean energy), from clean sheet to production.


You will take responsibility for leading a team of mechanical designers to deliver a particular mechanical system or complete product and will need to manage and work effectively with other Engineering disciplines to develop system level solutions to implement designs, that satisfy component, system, product, and client requirements. You will support the mechanical design team to grow our capabilities and skills and will cooperate with the business development team in developing proposals and responding to client queries.

Duties and Responsibilities

Concept and definitive 3D mechanical design

of systems, system assemblies and complex components such as transmission casings, rotating components, gears, injection moulded components.

Detailed mechanical

design work including basic stress calculations, FMEA's, 2D detailing, 2D layouts, Tolerance stacks as required. Close cooperation with

FEA, CFD and Simulation teams

to ensure products meet design validation requirements. Close cooperation with manufacturing and process engineers to ensure products meet

DFMA

Management of

Bill of Materials.

Creation

of technical reports and documentation

as required for engineering projects. Liaison with suppliers and other Ricardo departments to ensure the required information is available when needed and customer requests are dealt with in a timely manner. Responsibility for

coaching and mentoring

design engineers in design techniques and departmental processes. Ability to take on project roles such as Chief Designer or Chief Engineer as required by projects,

ability to lead

small- to mid-size project teams. Support to the business development team with inputs on mechanical design related details. Understanding of

market sector trends

and market development.

Qualifications and Experience

Degree (Bachelor or Masters) in Mechanical Engineering

or similar field or with equivalent technical experience.

Substantive

experience in Mechanical Design Engineering. Broad range of

mechanical design knowledge

specializing in one of the following areas: Transmission, Hybrid transmissions, EDU's. Solid understanding of

mechanical engineering principles

with ability to interpret FEA, CFD results and incorporate them in mechanical design. Solid understanding of

manufacturing processes

, and their impact on design, experience with DFMA. Ability to understand, produce and check

2D technical drawings

to a high standard with high GD&T competency.

3D CAD

skills with one or more major CAD systems (e.g. CREO, CATIA, NX) Experience with PLM systems,

Windchill

Leadership

of small teams. Advanced capabilities in

Microsoft Office.

Personal Attributes

Confident, proactive and adaptive ability to take the lead in challenging situations to achieve company goals and objectives. Acting as a role model representing the company values. Strong technical and report writing communication skill in English. Excellent problem solving and analytical skills. Able to prioritize and organize multiple project workloads and tasks working to tight deadlines. Able to travel to support Ricardo's worldwide client base.

Working with Ricardo

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.



We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Wellbeing and work life balance

Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential. Our People are important to us, and we take pride in our wellbeing programs and policies that support individuals including flexible working, careers policy, mental health first aiders and readily available support through our extensive Employee Assistance program.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.



Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.



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