Job Description

Location:

Glascoed, Monmouthshire, Wales

Salary:

38.25 - 38.25 per hour

Category

Mechanical Engineering

Sector:

Aerospace and Defence

Contract type

Contract

Employer:

BAE Systems

Consultant:

Rory Forshaw

You will provide engineering support to the Heavy bomb and payload team to ensure the delivery of projects within the team. Working with the Portfolio Manager and reporting to the Senior Product Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring that the programmes/projects include appropriate engineering development activity to achieve a robust solution.
The activities will be planned with robust estimates for completion with sound risk mitigation built in. The position will be primarily based at the BAE Systems Land UK site in Glascoed, Monmouthshire, occasional travel to other customer, manufacturing and test and evaluation sites will be necessary.


Typical duties include (but are not limited to):


? Supporting the product design and systems engineering activities for new and legacy products

? Conducting and managing product and process design, development, test, manufacture and evaluation activities. Ensuring that safety remains the highest priority in the working practices of yourself and the team

? Conducting and managing trials in a safe and suitable manner, from planning through to trials execution to reporting and presenting conclusions

? Application of effective Engineering Governance throughout the product development lifecycle supporting design reviews from concept to disposal

? Configuration and maintenance of Engineering Bills of Materials for products

? Product design and evaluation / down selection e.g. Pugh Matrices, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (DFMEA)

? The management of suppliers, both internal and external, to ensure that development activities are completed to time and schedule

? Support the generation of costed proposals for external customers


Knowledge:


? Knowledge of munitions design and manufacture

? A working knowledge of systems engineering and engineering design


Skills:


? Proven record of supporting engineering teams and projects

? Strong Engineering skills: particularly the ability to identify issues, conduct technical analysis of causes and identify solutions

? Ability to read and understand engineering drawings and models

? Capability/experience of producing high-quality technical reports


Desirables:


Experience of product design analysis techniques (Pugh, DFMEA, FTA) Experience of process design analysis techniques (PCP, PFMEA) Safety Management - IOSH Managing Safety/NEBOSH Certificate Experience and knowledge of manufacturing in a high hazard environment * A working knowledge of Systems Engineering and Engineering design