Senior Engineer Mechanical Design

William J Marshall & Partners LLP
Cambridge
2 days ago
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Why Join Marshall Land Systems In This Role

A Senior Engineer is required to take over lead responsibility, provide continuity of design intent and configuration control, and ensure effective coordination across programme, manufacturing/supply chain, quality, and integration stakeholders.


This opportunity is a hybrid role requiring you to be onsite in Cambridge around 50-70% of the time.


Job Description

The role will be to act as the senior mechanical engineer providing SME leadership and guidance in the development of bids and delivery of projects. There will also be occasion for the incumbent to lead certain projects. The role will require working with the current team generating and developing requirements, defining the mechanical architecture, compiling/checking of the System Engineering Management Plans. Additionally coaching others in the team in the above.


Your Responsibilities In This Role Include

  • Mechanical Design SME.
  • Leadership of Mechanical Design.
  • Specific to bids and projects.
  • People and discipline.
  • Drive compliance with Regulatory and Marshall processes.
  • Support the generation of complex design architecture for new and existing product design concepts from initial risk assessment and feasibility studies through to functional design freeze.
  • Lead technical input into bids and modifications.
  • Generate/Review/Check.
  • Project SEMP.
  • Project TP.
  • Customer and supplier Statement of Work.
  • Certification Documentation.
  • Bring significant platform and regulatory environment experience to efficient and effective completion of engineering data set.
  • Technical leadership and support to the mechanical design engineers.

Qualifications

  • Qualified to degree level in Engineering, Mathematics or Physics with relevant and sufficient experience in the field. Alternative qualifications and/or experience will be considered.

Apply If You Have Most Of The Following

  • Apply sound systems engineering thinking to all aspects of work.
  • Hold check signature for design and certification data sets.
  • In depth understanding of industry standard design practices such as tolerance assessment, DFMA and configuration management.
  • Work with stakeholder requirements to derive internal design requirements.
  • Generation of Customer Statement of Works and Technical Proposals.
  • Support and guidance to early careers engineers.
  • Develop mechanical approaches for modifications and projects.
  • Compile technical reports and certification documentation.
  • Understand mechanical certification and validation methods and be able to identify the appropriate Means of Compliance.
  • Demonstrable extensive experience working as a Senior Mechanical design engineer with hands‑on experience in the Aerospace and Defence sectors.
  • Experienced in planning and delivering complex tasks to schedule and budget demonstrating effective time management across many projects and priorities.
  • Experience outside of Aerospace and Defence in other relevant sectors will be an advantage. We are seeking people with the ability to make a difference and pro-actively join our Systems Engineering approach to large and complex project work.

The Benefits We Will Offer You Include

  • 27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy /sell)
  • Pension contributions up to 9%
  • Private medical insurance
  • Extensive flexible benefit program including Cycle to Work
  • Life assurance at 4x basic salary
  • Enhanced parental leave and pay
  • Paid volunteering leave
  • Access to industry leading wellbeing resources and tools

Introduction to Marshall Land Systems

Marshall Land Systems is a Canadian-owned global company with an unrivalled pedigree of British engineering excellence. From its origins in Cambridge, UK, through more than a century of innovation, pioneering advances from the nose of Concorde to the early Hydrogen fuel cell technology that ultimately powered the moon landings, Marshall engineers now continue to innovate specialist vehicles and infrastructure for NATO forces across the world. From bomb disposal vehicles to deployed shelters, from command and control to CT scanners on the battlefield, Marshall Land Systems protects people in critical situations with the very best in engineering. It employs 600 people with major facilities in the UK, Canada, and the Netherlands.


Marshall Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer and values a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, colour, religion, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information about Equal Opportunity in the Workplace.


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