Brand new role for an experienced Senior Design and Development Engineer.

A great team environmentGuidance and support with your career developmentThe opportunity to add value and make a difference within a growing aviation business As a Senior Design and Development Engineer, you are responsible for owning and delivering work packages within the new product development function, achieving on time product delivery and compliance to specifications and customer requirements.

This role works closely with other functional teams and external stakeholders to ensure effective & efficient design and development, including Design for Manufacture & Assembly, cost, weight, reliability and performance.

YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

The main responsibilities will include:

Act as a senior member of the engineering team, championing best practice, developing less experienced colleagues and providing effective support to your line manager, deputising when required.Apply professional expertise & judgement appropriately to deliver engineering programmes, using own initiative and with minimal supervision, independently identifying issues & risks & proactively coming up with solutions to overcome them, while escalating issues and risks to management in a timely manner when necessary.Support the engineering management team in identifying and implementing improvements to engineering processes systems and tools to maximise the efficiency, quality of output and agility of the engineering team.To take ownership for the design & development of key modules of the seat system achieving comfort, reliability, performance, aesthetic, cost & weight targets.To work closely with suppliers to develop the design, taking into consideration supplier capability and piece cost, as well as identifying & exploiting opportunities for technical or commercial advantage.Continually drive the design towards DFM (design for manufacture) and DFA (design for assembly).Produce high quality 3D & 2D design definition using Solidworks and PDM, along with supporting documentation. ABOUT THE PERSON

To be a successful candidate for this role you must be able to demonstrate the below attributes and skillsets:

Mechanical Engineering Degree (or equivalent)Proficient user of CAD and PDM systems with experience of best practice modelling and drawing techniques including G,D&TExperience of developing product in an aircraft seating environmentExperience of working on structural mechanical product development programmes in a design, manufacturing and test environmentExperience in the latest manufacturing techniques such as injection mouldings, vacuum forming, castings, forgings, extrusions and machining from solid