Senior Engineer (Letchworth Garden City)

Lead the design and development of advanced helmet systems and related equipment, incorporating cutting-edge materials and technologies for aircrew and groundcrew applications. Drive projects from concept through production, ensuring compliance with performance, cost, and safety requirements. 

Senior Engineer Responsibilities:

· Provide technical leadership in new product development (NPD/NPI), including design reviews (PDR/CDR) and risk analysis.

· Coordinate interdisciplinary teams to ensure manufacturability and compliance with ISO9001/AS9100 and DAOS regulations.

· Manage technical information and support for creation of drawings, bills of materials and related process and control documentation.

· Support the implementation of product testing and test procedures for both internal and external facilities during all phases of product life cycle.

· Liaise with customers, suppliers and corporate facilities – worldwide.

· Conduct feasible studies involving cost, manufacturability, performance and quality

· Lead design to cost, ensuring all new products meet the cost targets for piece parts and manufacturing costs.

· Support internal and external audits and compliance with regulations and standards.

Skills and Abilities:

· The ability to communicate design concepts and engineering principles to individual team members and groups from different disciplines and areas of the business

· Develop mechanical and composite designs using SolidWorks and GD&T principles.

· Experience in Composite materials and design for manufacturability.

· Track and implement new composite & polymer technologies

· A background in aviation/defense engineering or working under a DAOS Approval scheme beneficial

· Analysing and interpreting data, with recommendations

· Strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.

· Use of general workshop machinery and tools

· Prototyping using different media

· Understanding of Microsoft Office Packages including Excel, Word, Project and Visio

Qualifications/Experience as a Senior Engineer:

· Degree, HND, time served apprenticeship in an engineering discipline.

· 5 years minimum in a similar role within an engineering environment.

· Experience of leading small teams.

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