The Opportunity | Senior Engineer

The Curtiss-Wright's Integrated Sensors business unit are looking for a Senior Engineer to join us at our site in Pune, India to support the team in Christchurch UK. We design and manufacture Sensors and Solenoid Valves for Commercial and Military aircraft and this is your chance to join us as we grow.

In this role you will be working in the design engineering team on Solenoid valve and Sensor product lines, supporting NPI, production, resolving materials obsolesce issues for commercial and Aerospace and Military applications.

The ideal candidate for this role will have experience of the aerospace industry and be competent in mechanical design, materials knowledge with ideally some experience in pressure retaining products such as valves solenoids, and sensors. Some basic knowledge of electronics and PCB layouts is beneficial but not essential.

Required skills to include:
Materials knowledge, mechanical design, analytical skills (FEA & Hand calculations), report writing, reliability analysis FMEA and FMECA, 3D modelling and drafting using Solidworks excellent verbal/written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Support engineering projects by generating FEA reports (static and dynamic) and making recommendations to improve structural integrity.
• Provide materials and treatments knowledge to support obsolescence challenges and ongoing REACH compliance, with varnishes, potting’s, adhesives etc
• Support operations with any manufacturing /quality issues making technical judgements to approve disposition of non-conformances, engineering change requests.
• Generation and approval of reliability reports using NPRD-95 and similar sources to generate MTBF predictions.
• Generation and approval of FMEA and FMECA reports.
• Lead and contribute to DMFEA and support manufacturing PFMEA’s.
• Generation of manufacturing drawings, requiring high proficiency with ISO practices, GDT, tolerance analysis and best drawing practices.
• Support risk mitigations activities, write test procedures/reports and design of risk mitigation hardware

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree educated within a Mechanical Engineering or Materials Science.
• 5 years minimum of prior experience industry.
• Fluent in English (verbally and written).
• Solidworks Simulation
• Experience and knowledge of soldering, welding, and brazing
• Experience of precision manufacturing processes such as turning and milling is beneficial but not essential.
• Altium for PCB design is beneficial but not essential

No unsolicited agency submittals please.  Agency partners must be invited to participate in a search by our Talent Acquisition Team and have signed terms in place prior to any submittal.  Resumes submitted directly to any Curtiss-Wright employee or affiliate will not qualify for fee payment, and therefore become the property of Curtiss-Wright.  

Compliance Statement

This position may require exposure to export-controlled information and subject to additional security screening.  In the event information provided during the security screening reveals ineligibility to access export-controlled information, any offer of employment may be reconsidered or withdrawn. 

Curtiss-Wright is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability, age, ancestry, legally protected medical condition, family care status, marital status, religion, veteran status, national origin, or any other legally protected status. If you require accommodation during the recruitment process, please contact Talent Acquisition.

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