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Principal Design Engineer
2015-09-02 11:03:49| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Airbus Defence and Space is a division of Airbus Group formed by combining the business activities of Cassidian, Astrium and Airbus Military. The new division is Europes number one defence and space enterprise, the second largest space business worldwide and among the top ten global defence enterprises. It employs some 40,000 employees generating revenues of approximately 14 billion per year. A vacancy for a Principal Design Engineer has arisen within Airbus Defence Space in Stevenage. You will be responsible for maintaining a high degree of CAD competence in spacecraft design accommodation including Detailed Design within an engineering group or Project team environment. You will provide good engineering design support on bids, studies project work. You will liaise with all the internal external customers in the product groups business units. Supervision of a small Team of Design Engineers including the management of the teams Design Project Costs and Manpower Planning. The successful candidate will be subject to UK National Security Clearance in order to undertake related work in accordance with business needs. Your main tasks and responsibilities will include To work within a concurrent engineering Project team reporting to the MDO Group leader. To liaise with stress, thermal mechanical subsystem groups having a good appreciation of their work. Carry out DMU design accommodation activities given a detailed toplevel requirement specification with little or no guidance. Responsible for the control, correctness, accuracy release of all drawings, models, Digital Mock Up DMU, bills of materials engineering change notes as related to the configured items for allocated projects to cost schedule. Ensuring all outputs from the Mechanical Design Office MDO is correct to the project requirements as stated by the core team generally the Mechanical Architect. All the project DO outputs must be checked, signed stamped by the MDO lead design engineer to the checklists CATIA procedures. Authorised design signatory for manufacturing drawings, BOMs ECOs related to the allocated project. Specific responsibility for the estimation planning of DO related activities manpower requirements to meet those tasks. Allocation of manpower is sought through the line management. Supervision of other DO design engineers working on the project. Provide support to other general DO activities, e.g. Process improvements, bids etc. We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience Minimum requirement of HND in an Engineering discipline. Excellent working knowledge experience of CATIA V5. Strong Engineering technical background including working knowledge of GT Geometrical Tolerancing and DFM Design for Manufacturing. Strong experience in Design Manufacturing in the Aerospace industry. Experience managing work packages, dealing with budgets headcount requirements. Previous experience managing a small team would be desirable. Experience of VPM3DCOM. Practical understanding of Design solutions. Please apply for this vacancy on line at our careers site www.jobs.airbusgroup.com with your CV attached. To apply click here
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