Lead Mechanical Engineer - Aerospace/Space Farnborough

TISICS Ltd; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000

Job description

Company Overview

TISICS is a small management-owned business with material and processing technology that is of potential future benefit primarily to the Space and Aerospace sectors. The company designs and manufactures net shape metal and continuous silicon carbide fibre reinforced composite components compromising titanium and aluminium alloys. Our advanced materials offer significant advantages both to the Aerospace sector in reducing the weight of platforms for environmental benefit and to the Space sector with rapid growth in communications, climate and planetary exploration applications. In order to address these exciting market developments and increased customer interest in our technology, we are growing and are looking for motivated and inspiring people to join the team.

We handle a variety of different material types.

• Fibre (Silicon Carbide, Alumina Ceramic, Carbon Coating, and Tungsten Core, plus variety of chemical and gasses involved in the manufacturing process)
• Composites with the fibre and a variety of matrix materials (Titanium, Aluminium) and tooling, which is primarily steel based.

Lead Mechanical Engineer

The role of Mechanical Lead Engineer is to provide technical leadership within projects developing products for the Aerospace and Space markets based on the TISICS metal matrix composite and fibre technologies. Products include but are not limited to structural components, pressure vessels, and liquid propellant tanks. The Mechanical Lead Engineer will be the Project Design Authority, liaising with the company Chief Engineer and relevant Technical Experts.

We use some novel manufacturing methods using Diffusion bonding and also including dissimilar material joining. This is a hands-on technical role performing R&D and analysis on complex materials challenges.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Engineering leadership within projects
• Working with project managers to plan engineering tasks and resources
• Engineering work package management during projects to ensure delivery on-time, on-cost and on-quality
• Leading engineering and technical staff for projects, working collaboratively with the project, production and quality teams
• Review and approval of all engineering aspects of projects, in liaison with the chief engineer and relevant technical experts
• Leading the mechanical design of the products, including design, analysis, verification and test through all phases of projects to ensure compliance to customer requirements
• Leading the preparation of all technical aspects of design reviews, including documentation and data packs
• Liaising with suppliers, customers and manufacturing/development staff

Qualifications

• Qualified to degree level (BEng/BSc) in mechanical engineering or similar degree
• More than 5 years industrial experience in relevant environment
• Experience in design, development and delivery projects in a relevant industry
• Familiarity with 3D CAD, ideally SolidWorks
• Demonstrated technical leadership

What we can offer:

• Competitive salary: negotiable, depending on specific experience and qualifications relevant to the role.
• Retirement Plan: Pension scheme to help secure your future.
• 20 days holiday + bank holidays

Want to hear more about what it’s like to work at TISICS? Reach out to our team on [e-mail]

The candidate shall be eligible to work in the UK and hold a Skilled Workers visa, if required. For all successful candidates, TISICS will undertake background security checks. As part of this, we will need to confirm your identity, employment history and address history to cover the past five years as well as your nationality, immigration status and criminal record.