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Principal Engineer - Production Engineering Department

Ref no. BHN549217
Location Barrow-In-Furness, England
Start date ASAP
Job type Contract 12 Months
Job status Closed

Job summary

Principal Engineer - Production Engineering Department - 12 month contract - Barrow-in-Furness - £57.33ph UMB or PAYE rates available (Inside IR35)

Key skills required for this role

Structures, mechanical engineering, finite element analysis, build, test and commissioning

Important

Structures, mechanical engineering, finite element analysis, build, test and commissioning

Job description

ROLE/JOB DESCRIPTION

To execute, evaluate, deliver and manage complex engineering and/or cross functional tasks or programmes of work recognising stakeholder and customer requirements. Also to identify and implement opportunities for personal and team development to ensure that professional capability of the business and individual are maintained and improved.

The Structures department (SED) is a specialist team of Engineers, who together provides the business with the capability to design all of the major structural elements that make up a nuclear submarine. This includes the pressure hull, decks, tanks, bulkheads and external structures that make up the bridge fin, casing, forward and aft external structures. The department also provides a stress analysis service to other functions in particular pipe stressing, although the group do not own or design any piping systems, it undertakes flexibility analysis and can influence these arrangements. The team has relied on external specialist services for the design of composite elements such as control surfaces and casing structures. The group also assists with the design of minor structures and components such as seats, flanges, penetrations, eye plates, pipe supports etc. In the past the group has held design responsibility for major surface ships such as LPH, LPD, AO and elements of QEC Carriers.

JOB FUNCTION / CATEGORY PED Hull and Outfit Structural Engineering

  • Undertake and define functional design and/or provide specialist advice and qualification of their scope of responsibility and provide evidence for acceptance and fitness for purpose.
  • Obtain confirmation beyond reasonable doubt by review, surveillance and audit that those assumptions, underpinning engineering data, analysis methodologies, and interpretation of results have been validated, assisting to define the requirements therein.
  • Lead the identification and rapid closure of issues emerging from all product lifecycle stages and to manage the resulting change embodiment activities.
  • Liaise with both internal and external customers as required ensuring that their requirements are adequately supported and that their needs are fully considered and incorporated where appropriate and agreed. Seek new ventures and opportunities where available.
  • Undertake and define peer reviews or checking / verification tasks.
  • Lead the qualification obligations for the assurance hold points during build, test and commissioning, within area of expertise.
  • Lead assurance activities that determine the design is adequate i.e. it is robust, in providing supporting documentation for the safety case.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES AND DELIVERABLES

  • A comprehensive understanding of the manufacturing, assembly, lifting, handling and installation processes used within the business.
  • Expert knowledge of the facility and site restrictions which apply to the shipping, handling, alignment and installation of hull units, large equipment and structures
  • Expert knowledge of specific regulations and requirements, above and beyond that used within BAE Systems i.e. LOLER, codes of compliance, Euro codes, weld specifications, geometric tolerancing.
  • Expert knowledge and past experience in the use and interpretation of the computer based analytical techniques used by the department such as finite element analysis, CAD modelling and engineering schematics.
  • Lead of assessments in support structures, structural seats/foundations, fasteners and welds using a mixture of finite element analysis, in-house software, classical stress calculation techniques and application of standard code formulae.
  • Represent the Production Engineering Department, working in multi-functional teams to determine the best integrated solution, seeking supporting data and background information to effectively complete design activities.

SUBJECT KNOWLEDGE and QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experienced in the use of mechanical engineering principles and practices.
  • Experienced in classical stress analysis, ability to use appropriate first principles/standard or code formulae are considered key qualifications.
  • Experienced in finite element analysis methods and/or software, or appropriate significant experience assessing such reports.
  • Experienced in the manufacturing, assembly, commissioning and testing processes used within the business, or similar businesses.
  • Experienced in the user of naval and industry standards (including safety and environmental regulations).

Due to the security clearance required with this role, we can only accept applications from sole British Nationals

Amy Mason manages this role

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