Missile Mechanical Architect / Mechanical Architect (Defence)
Location: UK sites (project dependent) - bias towards Stevenage and Bolton (3-4 days/week onsite required; 5 days onsite initially due to training needs)
Duration: 6 months (likely to be extended)
Rate: £60 per hour (Umbrella)
IR35: Inside IR35
Clearance: SC cleared to start
Overview
A leading organisation within the Defence & Security sector is looking for an experienced Mechanical Architect to gather and manage missile mechanical architecture requirements to achieve performance, on time and on cost delivery, and overall layout vs compliance. The role includes providing justification of the design and coordinating verification evidence of missile performance to support certification.
Responsibilities:
- Establishing the Missile Airframe Task Requirements Specification (TRS) to ensure a structured & coherent mechanical response to the overall Missile TRS.
- Management of the mechanical interface with the launcher.
- Management of Mechanical & Thermal Interfaces across the Missile.
- Defining the optimum mechanical architecture for all variants of the missile, ensuring the mechanical architecture and interfaces meet requirements.
- Implementation of GMA Policies to ensure Modularity & Reuse objectives are achieved.
- Development of the overall proving logic for the validation of the Airframe.
- Ensuring mechanical compliance to the Airframe TRS for missile certificate of design.
- Interface with and manage customer expectations throughout the development process.
- Producing Statements of Work and plans for activities within their sphere of responsibility.
- Direct technical supervision of engineers within their team and indirect management of engineers in the extended project team.
- Controlling assigned budgets, managing personal workload and identifying any further resource needs.
Skillset/experience required:
- Educated to degree level with 10 years' experience or an equivalent qualification having obtained significant experience of mechanical engineering.
- Ability to technically manage internal & sub-contract activities.
- Strong leadership skills, able to establish a clear engineering vision.
- Good knowledge & experience of missile mechanical design, including:
- Static & Dynamic Analysis
- Design for Environment
- Thermal Management.
Good understanding of broader engineering disciplines, including: - Aerodynamics
- Testability
- Experience developing proving logic and managing the generation of compliance evidence towards Certificates of Design.
- Experience across the full Product Life Cycle.
- Ability to influence senior managers and other stakeholders.
- Strong interpersonal and well developed communication skills (written & verbal).
- Willingness to travel within UK and Europe.
