Principal Mechanical Engineer - BAE Systems

6 month contract - likely extension

80% remote - 2 days every 2 weeks onsite.

£43 PAYE or £57.97 per hour Umbrella (Inside IR35)

Working on the HVAC / cooling Systems for AUKUS.

The Principal Mechanical Engineer (Platform Systems) shall provide support to the Principal Engineers and/or external specialists during development and analysis of mechanical systems. The Senior Engineer shall be involved in leading analysis and production of technical reports and team deliverables.
JOB FUNCTION / CATEGORY Engineering GRADE S4 CORE DUTIES
In accordance with the level of supervision/responsibility assigned by role/grade:
• Develop design solutions to agreed time, cost and quality in accordance with project or business milestones.
• Develop and manage requirements and acceptance criteria specific to a system or product and/or across a system of systems, platform or programme
• Understand the contractual and performance requirements for various systems, and support the definition and associated acceptance criteria and events through design, build, integration, installation and commissioning activities.
• Produce documentation required to support the design review process, including: diagrams technical specifications supporting calculations design evidence and justifications
• Ensure design proving evidence is comprehensive, captured within the requirements management tools and has been endorsed by the appropriate level of authority
• Ensure compliance against contractual requirements and that work is undertaken in accordance with company, safety, environmental, contractual and local business processes, standards, procedures and documentation.
• Undertake design reviews and presentations to customers.
• Provide technical support to integrated performance and acceptance activities, including acceptance of equipment from suppliers through to system acceptance by the customer
• Review relevant supplier documentation and ensure it is captured and recorded appropriately.
• Support the development of estimates for the scope of work and resources required to deliver it in order to support bids, proposal development and project planning activities for various systems.
• Provide support to the Certificate of Design activities appropriate to the discipline and articulate and present complex technical argument clearly, logically and simply.
• Deliver technical input and engineering solutions in support of build activities, defect resolution and change management
Core Duties (GTI Description)
Typical duties include (but are not limited to):
? Requirements and acceptance criteria
? Technical reports and specifications
? Functional System Diagrams
? System design verification: calculations, modelling, analysis etc
? System Safety Justifications.
? Design reviews and technical presentations
? Test and validation plans
? Qualification and acceptance plans
? Maintain functional design intent through build and integration to commissioning and acceptance
Safety:
? The role holder is responsible for taking reasonable care of their own health and safety ensuring high standards for safety, health and environment (SHE) in our organisation are maintained. This includes co-operating and following all reasonable instruction, information and training reporting work-related hazards or incidents and using all equipment for the purpose intended. More detailed responsibilities are captured within the Company Health & Safety Policy (759/OF/016) and the Company Environmental Policy (759/OF/029).
Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications
Knowledge:
? Demonstrable understanding of the development of mechanical systems from functional requirements
? Demonstrable experience of the engineering lifecycle
? Some knowledge or experience specifying mechanical equipment and components (heat exchangers, pumps, diesel generators, hydraulic plant, compressors, etc)