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Principal Mechanical Engineer

  • Location: Barrow-in-Furness District
  • Salary: £50.00 - £56.74 per hour per hour
  • Job Type:Contract

Posted 30 days ago

  • Sector: Engineering
  • Contact: Tom McGuire
  • Contact Email: t.mcguire@jamrecruitment.co.uk
  • Duration: 12 Months
  • Start Date: ASAP
  • Client: BAE Systems
  • Expiry Date: 03 December 2024
  • Job Ref: 81548TM_1729625168

10 x Principal Mechanical Engineer

Initial 12 Month Contracts

Hybrid Working - 2 days per fortnight on site with the client based in Barrow-in-Furness

£56.74 Per Hour (Inside IR35)

The Role

  • 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

The Candidates

As there are multiple roles available, the client is looking for candidates with experience in any of the following areas:

  • Piping
  • Stress/Structural
  • Cooling systems
  • Gearbox/Gearing Design
  • Rotor Dynamics
  • Pumping Systems
  • Steam Systems
  • Feed Systems
  • Lubricating Oil Systems

If these roles are of interest, please send a copy of your CV to Tom McGuire by clicking the "Apply Now" button.