Mechanical Architect

Our client has an opportunity for a Missile Mechanical Architect to join them on a contract basis for 6 months with likely extension. This exciting role is to gather and manage the missile mechanical architecture requirements to achieve missile performance, on time and on cost and overall layout vs compliance. This involves providing justification of the design and co-ordinate the verification evidence of missile performance to support certification.

Role: Missile Mechanical Architect
Location: Stevenage or Bolton, fully onsite. (must be happy to travel between locations)
Hours: 37 per week
Clearance: Full SC required before starting
Hourly Rate: £60 per hour via Umbrella, inside IR35

What you'll be doing:

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 (Generic Missile Architecture) 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
Requirements:

Educated to degree level 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
Production
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
General competency with common IT systems (Outlook, Excell etc)
If you are interested in applying for this position and you meet the requirements, please apply!

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