Mechanical Engineer

Ontic Engineering and Manufacturing, Inc.; Austrey CP; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Up to 29 days annual leave

10 hours paid volunteering time

Annual goal share bonus

24/7 Employee Assistance Program

Discounts from retailers

Job summary

Ontic Engineering and Manufacturing, Inc. is seeking a Mechanical Engineer for their Bishops Cleeve site in Gloucestershire. This position involves providing technical support across the product lifecycle, ensuring compliance, and collaborating with teams to maintain design conformance. The ideal candidate has a background in aerospace, is comfortable with technical drawings, and possesses strong communication skills. Ontic offers a vibrant workspace emphasizing recognition and empowerment, plus a generous benefits package including up to 29 days of annual leave, paid volunteering time, and an annual bonus scheme.

Qualifications

• Experience in design, manufacturing or technical support environment, preferably in aerospace.
• Comfortable working with technical drawings and understanding design intent.
• Knowledge of engineering materials and manufacturing processes.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support across the full product lifecycle.
• Ensure products remain compliant and reliable within a regulated aerospace environment.
• Investigate technical issues and implement corrective actions.

Skills

Mechanical Engineering experience

Technical documentation interpretation

Strong communication skills

Problem-solving skills

Tools

SolidWorks

Windchill

Job description

Mechanical Engineer page is loaded## Mechanical Engineerlocations: Bishops Cleeve, Gloucestershiretime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Yesterdayjob requisition id: R5440## **Mechanical Engineer**Bishops Cleeve, Cheltenham | Engineering | Onsite**Ontic**, a leading licensor and manufacturer of complex engineering parts for the global aerospace and defence industries, are now recruiting for a **Mechanical Engineer** to join our Engineering team where you'll support us in ensuring the ongoing integrity, performance and compliance of our products across their full lifecycle. This role will be based at our Bishops Cleeve site.Ontic is more than just a business, we're a community of innovators who pride ourselves on fostering a culture where talent thrives, ideas flourish, and careers are built. We're committed to excellence, driving us to continuously improve and adapt, ensuring that we remain at the forefront of our industry.**The Role:**As a Mechanical Engineer at Ontic, you’ll provide technical support across the full product lifecycle, from new product introduction through to in-service support and eventual retirement. Working within a highly regulated aerospace environment, you’ll play a key role in ensuring our products remain compliant, reliable and fit for purpose.You’ll collaborate closely with internal teams and external customers to maintain design conformance, support engineering changes, and respond to challenges such as material obsolescence or regulatory updates. The role involves reviewing and interpreting technical documentation, implementing engineering changes through formal processes, and supporting redesign activities to meet technical, quality, cost and delivery objectives.Alongside this, you’ll be responsible for investigating technical issues, identifying root causes, and implementing corrective actions, while producing clear and accurate engineering documentation to support decision-making and compliance.**About you:**At Ontic, our culture is integral to making sure we enjoy our work and deliver for our customers. While we look for the right skillset, we're also looking for someone who will thrive within our recognition and empowerment culture.To be successful in this role, you’ll be a capable Mechanical Engineer with experience gained in a design, manufacturing or technical support environment, ideally within aerospace or another regulated industry. You’ll be comfortable working with technical drawings and understanding original design intent, with a strong analytical approach to problem solving and engineering decision-making.You’ll bring knowledge of engineering materials and manufacturing processes, along with an understanding of key principles such as GD&T and tolerance analysis. Experience using CAD tools such as SolidWorks and Windchill would be beneficial, as would exposure to engineering calculations and design evaluation activities.Strong communication skills are essential, as you’ll be working with a range of stakeholders and producing clear, high-quality technical documentation. Experience supporting NPI or design evaluation activities would be advantageous.**Benefits:**At Ontic we care about your financial, physical, and mental wellness so we offer a range of benefits to support this, we care about what matters to you and have a valued culture of recognition and empowerment, accompanied by benefits that support work/life balance.Our benefits package highlights include:* Up to 29 days annual leave + bank holidays* 10 hours paid volunteering time* Annual goal share bonus scheme for all employees* 24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP)* Discounts and offers from a range of retailers**Best place to work**We are more than the sum of our parts. And we’ve been recognised internally and externally for being so:* We were ranked #9 in Best Companies’ Q3 leaderboard for Best Manufacturing Company based on our employee feedback* 72.5% of employees who took part in our 2023 employee satisfaction survey said they are proud to work at OnticWe are a fast-paced business with ambitious growth plans; so if you are dedicated, enthusiastic and always seeking ways to improve, you'll enjoy a career with us!