About this job

Sapienza Consulting is recruiting a Mechanical Design Engineer to be based in the UK. He/she will be responsible to deliver mechanical designs and perform structural analysis and tests to fulfill the company needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the mechanical design of flight and support hardware.
• Lead structural analysis of flight and engineering hardware.
• Lead structural tests of flight and engineering hardware.
• Dealing with manufacturing supply chain.
• Definition and input to quality and operational excellence processes.
• Definition and involvement into assembly, integration and test activities.
• Mentorship/training/recruitment and motivation of colleagues.
• Support sales, customer support or any other business areas that require technical support as needed.
• Input to technical road-map.
• Assisting company-wide projects and activities as part of the team.

Profile

• Proven industrial experience in product engineering. To have developed several products, seen full cycle including functional and environmental testing involvement
• >3 years’ experience in mechanical design, from concept to drawing for manufacture, knowledge in GD&T using ISO 1101, 2692 & 5458 or ASME Y14.5
• >3 years’ experience in system level structural analysis using Patran/Nastran, Ansys or similar
• Experience in assembly, integration and test of high reliability systems (aerospace, automotive, nuclear…)
• Extensive knowledge of manufacturing processes to aid design for manufacturing
• Experience managing communication with suppliers
• Attention to detail
• Lean/Bootstrap mentality
• Honesty, openness and self-awareness
• Pro-activeness
• Quick to learn and coach others
• Experience in the space sector
• Space systems engineer experience
• Must be eligible to work in the UK