Mechanical Engineering Team Lead

Systems Engineering & Assessment Ltd; West of England; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid/flexible working

25 days annual leave

Onsite parking

Onsite bistro & free beverages

Wellbeing centre

Private medical insurance

Job summary

Systems Engineering & Assessment Ltd. is seeking a Mechanical Engineering Team Lead at our Barnstaple site, with a requirement to be on-site at least 2 days per week.

The role focuses on leading mechanical activities, ensuring technical quality for mechanical hardware used in commercial and military applications, and guiding tasking, risk, estimates and progress reporting to meet milestones. The successful candidate will manage a team of mechanical specialists, provide technical direction, and

Qualifications

• Experience leading a mechanical engineering team.
• Ability to perform mechanical design and detailed analysis to BS8888 standards.
• Experience with GD&T and tolerance studies.

Responsibilities

• Lead mechanical activities and prioritize tasks for a team of Mechanical specialists across a range of work.
• Provide leadership and technical direction to ensure delivery on-time, on-cost and on-quality.
• Conduct mechanical design, analysis, tolerance studies (including GD&T) and generation of technical documentation and manufacturing data packs to BS8888.
• Support problem investigations and deliver effective solutions.
• Line management for your team, including development discussions and regular 1:1 meetings.

Skills

Leadership

Line management

Mechanical design

GD&T

BS8888

Risk management

Cost estimates

Progress reporting

Job description

Engineered to Protect, that's our promise, we protect what matters - our nations, our waters, our land, our cities, our people, our environment, our world.

As Mechanical Engineering Team Lead you'll lead mechanical activities, ensuring effective task management and prioritization for a team of Mechanical specialists across a range of work of varying complexities. You'll play a critical role in ensuring the technical quality of design, testing, manufacturing and in-service support of mechanical hardware for commercial and military applications. You'll provide support and guidance to the wider project team on tasking, risk management, estimates and progress reporting to ensure that key project milestones are met. This role is based at our Barnstaple site. This role allows for flexible working but requires a minimum of 2 days per week on site. The salary for this role is up to £62k, depending on experience.

What you’ll be doing

• Ensure clear communication and collaboration within the Mechanical Engineering project team, other engineering functions and project stakeholders.
• Provide leadership and technical direction / task management to ensure delivery of mechanical engineering solutions on-time, on-cost and on-quality.
• Conduct mechanical engineering detailed design, analysis, tolerance studies (including GD&T) and generation of technical documentation (design specifications, test specifications etc) and manufacturing data packs (MDP) to relevant standards including BS8888.
• Support problem investigations and deliver effective solutions.
• Line management for your team, including development discussions and regular 1:1 meetings.

At SEA, we develop and deliver advanced solutions to make our world safer, cleaner and more efficient. We provide state-of-the-art applications for naval ship and fleet protection, and undersea surveillance systems. In-service across the globe, our systems deliver a rapid response to threats and system effectiveness and interoperation. Our systems support an ever-growing number of navies across the world, and we continue to bolster our already specialist, on-the-ground knowledge of key overseas markets.

At our core, we encourage innovation, flexibility and out-of-the-box thinking to solve problems, so we're always looking for talented, flexible, and creative people to bring their best to SEA. In return we offer generous rewards, a fantastic work/life balance, and excellent career and training opportunities for everyone who joins.

Have?a look at?the benefits we offer:

• Work life balance
• Hybrid/flexible working arrangements
• 25 days' annual leave, plus buy and sell
• Up to 16 days flexi leave accrual
• Half day Fridays
• Reservists in the?Armed?Forces receive special paid leave
• Family & wellbeing
• Private medical health insurance & Employee Assistance Program
• All Staff Bonus
• Group Pension Plan of up to 7% employer contribution
• Cycle to work scheme
• Wellbeing Centre
• Sports & Social activities
• Employee Discounts portal - online and in-store discounts, travel savings
• Life assurance policy
• Publication and recruitment bonus rewards
• Development opportunities, including LinkedIn learning
• Facilities & resources
• Electric vehicle charging points at all sites
• Private seated lunch areas
• Onsite bistro (Barnstaple office) and free hot and cold beverages
• Onsite showers and toiletries provision
• Free onsite parking

Join us and be part of something smaller - with?500?people in the UK and Canada - doing something bigger