Principal Mechanical Engineer

SEA Ltd

Bristol

Hybrid

GBP 55,800 - 68,200

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid/flexible working arrangements

25 days' annual leave

Up to 16 days flexi leave accrual

Private medical health insurance

Job summary

SEA Ltd is seeking a Principal Mechanical Engineer to lead mechanical engineering delivery across the lifecycle, ensuring quality, safety and reliability. The role supports Bristol, Beckington or Barnstaple sites with regular Barnstaple visits and flexible working.

Salary up to £62k, commensurate with experience. The successful candidate will conduct detailed mechanical design, perform tolerance analyses, and prepare technical documentation and MDPs to BS8888 standards.

Qualifications

Proven experience in mechanical detailed design and analysis.
Experience with GD&T and tolerance studies.
Ability to generate design documentation and manufacturing data packs (MDP).
Experience leading and directing junior engineers.

Responsibilities

Conduct mechanical design and analysis, tolerancing studies, and generate technical documentation to BS8888 standards.
Regularly report to Project Management and Engineering Leadership for status updates, risks, and dependencies.
Provide technical direction and task management to junior engineers within the mechanical engineering team.

Skills

Mechanical design

GD&T

Technical leadership

BS8888 standards

Documentation

Tools

Manufacturing data packs (MDP)

Job description

About The Role

Engineered to Protect, thats our promise, we protect what matters - our nations, our waters, our land, our cities, our people, our environment, our world. As Principal Mechanical Engineer, you'll play a key role in leading the delivery of mechanical engineering solutions across the engineering lifecycle, ensuring that standards are met for quality, safety, performance, and reliability.

The Principal Mechanical Engineer can be based at any of our sites, Bristol, Beckington, or Barnstaple, but with regular visits to Barnstaple. This role allows for flexible working.

The salary for this role is up to £62k, depending on experience.

What you'll be doing

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
Regularly report into Project Management and Engineering Leadership teams to provide accurate status updates and identify risks, opportunities and dependencies as they emerge
Ensure clear communication and collaboration within the Mechanical Engineering project team, other engineering functions and project stakeholders, and provide technical direction and task management to junior engineers

About our company

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.

What we offer

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. Havea look atthe benefits we offer:

Work life balance