Senior Mechanical Design - Didcot, United Kingdom - Science and Technology Facilities Council

Science and Technology Facilities Council

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Didcot, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Senior Mechanical Design & Analysis Engineer

Salary:
£31,931 to £44,166 per annum (dependent on skills and experience). A Specialist Allowance of up to £3000 per annum is also available for this role

Hours:
Full time

Contract Type:
Open Ended.

Location:
Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell, Oxfordshire
Come and do the kind of engineering that made you want to be an engineer. Stretch your technical skills while building human understanding. Promote sustainability and create new materials. And, alongside world-leading scientists and technologists, shapeprojects that improve lives, and daily life, in the UK and far beyond.

Put simply, come and discover the impact you can make when you're equipped, encouraged and inspired to perform to your very best.

Are you a self-motivated mechanical engineer interested in the development of innovative mechanical structures, involving novel concepts, novel materials, and extremely challenging requirements?

The ISIS Target Design Group has an immediate requirement for an experienced senior design and analysis engineer with specialist knowledge in complex mechanical systems to manage the design, development, simulation and procurement of its scientific researchequipment.

Design and analysis of target station components and systems is a key element in supporting the user community carrying out scientific studies at the ISIS facility, and there is an active programme of development of these systems as part of a widerfacility growth.

Person Specification

Ideally you will have:

Significant postgraduate experience in the design including experience in working in multidisciplinary teams.
Significant postgraduate experience in carrying out engineering simulation and analysis (mechanical, thermomechanical and computational fluid dynamics)
Proven ability to analyse, design and deliver systems from first principles.
Proven ability to work to procedures, and Industrial Standards and Regulations.
Understanding of safe design, risk assessments, and risk mitigation.
Comprehensive understanding of materials and manufacturing.

We ask some of the biggest questions in the universe, to answer some of the biggest challenges in the world.

Together, our scientists, technologists, engineers and business-support team explore the unknown across every field you could think of. And theyturn what they find into work that changes the world around us.

What could you achieve with the world-leading facilities and experts of one of Europe's largest research organisations by your side? Join us and discover what's possible.

**Closing date: 16th January 2023