Key Responsibilities:

• Able to prepare technical documents and design and develop product data to their functional domain level with no supervision. Support the design intent, delivering design solutions to meet project schedule & budget requirements. 
• Apply and scrutinise requirements of a project with no supervision.  
• Be able to technically interface with operations and supply chain ensuring the design intent is met and requirements achieved, applying developing DFM / DFT practices throughout. 
• Assist in preparing and reviewing engineering estimates & bids, including identifying risks and dependencies within and across functions. 
• Effective communication skills.  Capable of presenting ideas and proposals to peers and line managers, including presenting at external design reviews (with some support). 
• Ability to liaise with support functions (Commercial, Finance, Supply chain etc) 
• Awareness of PLM tools. 
• Competent at Configuration and Change management and security marking aspects of all types of documentation and drawings. 
• Fully understands the security aspects of what we do, commercial export licences and their need and ITAR requirements. 
• Capable of Assisting in failure investigations and recommending appropriate solutions, reporting findings to management and customers. 
• Support the resolution of technical challenges, supporting other engineers in the relevant domain. 
• Capable of leading small technical work packages within a project guiding other engineers as required to help meet schedule, budget and quality. 
• Competent at authoring complex assemblies and drawings & models using one or more of the company selected CAD tools. 
• Competent at interpreting and layout drawings, all dimensioning, applying linear and geometric tolerances to British and International Standards, contributes to the companies own Draughting Standard Manual. 
• Competent at designing electrical wiring assemblies, has an appreciation of working with electronic PCB assemblies and other sub-assemblies in electromechanical designs, with input to the electronics design and PCB layout, software and systems activities. 
• Competent at FEA analysis and reporting.  
• Competent at designing for manufacture and production processes. Competent understanding of project and engineering lifecycles and required activities within own discipline. 
• Technically competent to assess and manage technical risk in their area and honestly present the detail and the wider impact 
• Able to communicate succinctly and accurately on technical issues and schemes with internal and external customers and the team. 
• Proactively able to manage own work 
• Uses own initiative and makes timely decisions within the scope of the role and is financially aware of the consequences of decisions. 
• Good application of Microsoft packages and relevant software for the role. 

Required Skills & Experience:

• Relevant qualifications to an appropriate level, typically a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience, with significant post-qualification experience in a range of roles within a relevant complex engineering environment. 
• Preferably a Chartered engineer or equivalent with a recognised professional engineering institution 
• Experience with mechanical aspects of PCB & Enclosure design, with focus on designing for EMI & EMC. 
• Familiarity with aerospace materials & manufacturing methods 
• Understanding of airworthiness and safety for certification. Understands DO-160 and other environmental requirements.

Benefits:

Every employee is critical to our success and as such we offer a range of flexible employee benefits along with career development opportunities.

• Flexible working within core working hours

• 25 days holiday (185 hrs) with the option to buy/sell 5 days (37 hrs) plus bank holidays

• 4 times your annual salary in life assurance

• Flexible benefits package

• Pension Scheme - Less than 5 years' service up to 5.5% employer contributions, 5 years' service + up to 7.5% employer contributions. 

• Sports and Social club

• Supportive and friendly working environment with regular team events

You couldn’t be joining the team and Ultra at a more exciting time. Therefore if this sounds of interest, please follow the application process