Senior Mechanical Engineer – RADAR

Expleo is a global company and a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting.  We help businesses harness unrelenting technological change to successfully deliver innovations that will help them gain a competitive advantage and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe.

Expleo Engineering UK is expanding its Mechanical Engineering capability, so we are looking to recruit a Senior Mechanical Engineer who is keen to progress their career with a growing company and who want to help our customers make real products. 

Working on RADAR equipment at a customer location in Cowes, on the Isle of Wight, with opportunities for hybrid working, you will be assigned to a major defence project, where your skills and experience in mechanical integration, CAD and solution development will be fully utilised. 

There is a requirement to work at the clients site for 3 days per week with the remaining time on a Working From Home Basis.

Responsibilities within your role will include (but not limited to):- 

• →Interfacing with the team to understand technical issues / specifications and requirements. 
• →Producing quality while keeping within project budgets & time constraints and potentially changing requirements.
• →Apply correct processes, specifications procedures & techniques working with support from specialist teams.
• →Technical leadership and support to other members of the team.
• →Translating requirements and interface constraints into a complete mechanical solution.
• →Owning CAD/design definition.
• →Managing configuration and engineering change.
• →Identifies integration, access, tolerance, maintainability and installation risks.

Recognised Engineering Batchelors Degree.

• Exhibit good technical writing skills.
• Microsoft Office Skills.  
• Be Bold; Act reliable – Make a difference and challenge convention.
• Be inquisitive - always ask ‘why?’, seek to understand the underlying principles behind all engineering problems, strive to broaden your skillset.
• Communicate & Influence - be able to articulate complex ideas and concepts verbally or in writing to anyone.
• Collaborate - actively build relationship across functional divides.
•  A recognised engineering degree (or equivalent) in a related discipline.

And it would be good if you were:

• Incorporated or Chartered Engineer or have evidence of progress towards Professional Registration with a PEI.

• Experience in configuration management.  
• Experience in translating design information into drawing requirements. 
• Experience of design lifecycle management.
• Experience of Design Reviews.
• Experience of integrating mechanical design solutions. 
• Practical, relevant experience in a product integration environment performing similar roles.
• Experience of applying hardware engineering toolsets.

Recognising the RESTRICTED nature of the work, suitable candidates will need to be a UK National with minimum BPSS, SC Clearance will be required.