Aerospace CAD Engineer - Life-Saving Design & Change

Northgate Vehicle Hire Careers; Denham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme (9% contributed by us)

Lunchtime finish on a Friday

Personalised training and development

25 days annual leave plus bank hols

Additional annual leave option

Occupational Health support

Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

Martin-Baker is recruiting a CAD Engineer for the ADR team in Denham. You will manage design changes across diverse products, from initial 3D models to PMI, ensuring producibility and traceability within Teamcenter and SBM platforms.

You will collaborate with Production Engineering to ensure datum and tolerance alignment with strict manufacturing requirements, perform basic analyses, and help sustain legacy products for long-term support.

Qualifications

• Engineering baseline: degree or HND in engineering or applied science plus relevant experience.
• Strong understanding of GD&T principles.
• Knowledge of configuration management and engineering change processes.
• Experience using a PLM/PDM database; 3D CAD experience required; Siemens NX preferred.
• Numerical and verbal skills with DFMA mindset; minimize design iterations.
• Demonstrates Martin-Baker values.

Responsibilities

• Engineering Change Management: process engineering change requests, perform rudimentary impact analysis, and coordinate with the change review board based on affected parts.
• CAD Modelling & Drafting: generate and modify 3D CAD models and PMI, ensuring data is fully defined but unambiguous.
• System Traceability: input, maintain, and monitor data and release statuses in Teamcenter PLM and SBM platform.
• Producibility & Liaison: collaborate with Production Engineering to align datum and tolerance with manufacturing and inspection requirements.
• Analysis & Calculation: perform tolerance/clearance analyses, mass optimization, and preliminary sizing calculations.
• Legacy Product Sustainment: reverse engineer older data to modern formats and standards for long-term support.

Skills

GD&T fundamentals

PLM/PDM systems

3D CAD modelling

DFMA mindset

Analytical thinking

Education

Engineering degree or HND

Tools

Siemens NX

Teamcenter PLM

Job description

Martin-Baker is recruiting a CAD Engineer for the ADR team in Denham. You will manage design changes across diverse products, from initial 3D models to PMI, ensuring producibility and traceability within Teamcenter and SBM platforms.

You will collaborate with Production Engineering to ensure datum and tolerance alignment with strict manufacturing requirements, perform basic analyses, and help sustain legacy products for long-term support.