Product Development Engineer in Glascoed

Energy Jobline CVL; Glascoed; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global energy recruitment platform is seeking an Engineering Support role to assist the heavy bomb and payload team in Glascoed. The candidate will manage engineering development activities, conduct product design and systems engineering, and ensure project delivery and compliance with safety standards. Relevant skills include engineering project support, technical analysis, and the ability to produce detailed reports.

Qualifications

• Proven record of supporting engineering teams and projects.
• Strong engineering skills with issue identification and technical analysis.
• Capability to read and understand engineering drawings and models.

Responsibilities

• Support product design and systems engineering activities.
• Conduct and manage product and process design, development, and testing.
• Ensure the highest safety priority in working practices.
• Manage suppliers to ensure development activities are on schedule.

Skills

Supporting engineering teams and projects

Strong analytical skills

Reading engineering drawings and models

Producing high-quality technical reports

Job description

Energy Jobline is the largest and fastest growing global Energy Job Board and Energy Hub. We have an audience reach of over 7 million energy professionals, 400,000+ monthly advertised global energy and engineering jobs, and work with the leading energy companies worldwide.

We focus on the Oil & Gas, Renewables, Engineering, Power, and Nuclear markets as well as emerging technologies in EV, Battery, and Fusion. We are committed to ensuring that we offer the most exciting career opportunities from around the world for our jobseekers.

You will provide engineering support to the heavy bomb and payload team to ensure the delivery of projects within the team. Working with the Portfolio Manager and reporting to the Senior Product Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring that the programmes/projects include appropriate engineering development activity to achieve a robust solution.

The activities will be planned with robust estimates for completion with sound risk mitigation built in. The position will be primarily based at the BAE Systems Land UK site in Glascoed, Monmouthshire, with occasional travel to other customer, manufacturing and test and evaluation sites necessary.

Typical duties include (but are not limited to):

• Supporting the product design and systems engineering activities for new and legacy products
• Conducting and managing product and process design, development, test, manufacture and evaluation activities. Ensuring that safety remains the highest priority in the working practices of yourself and the team
• Conducting and managing trials in a safe and suitable manner, from planning through to trials execution to reporting and presenting conclusions
• Application of effective Engineering Governance throughout the product development lifecycle supporting design reviews from concept to disposal
• Configuration and maintenance of Engineering Bills of Materials for products
• Product design and evaluation / down selection e.g. Pugh Matrices, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (DFMEA)
• The management of suppliers, both internal and external, to ensure that development activities are completed to time and schedule
• Support the costed proposals for external customers

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of munitions design and manufacture
• A working knowledge of systems engineering and engineering design

Skills:

• Proven record of supporting engineering teams and projects
• Strong Engineering skills: particularly the ability to identify issues, conduct technical analysis of causes and identify solutions
• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings and models
• Capability/experience of producing high-quality technical reports

Desirables:

• Experience of product design analysis techniques (Pugh, DFMEA, FTA)
• Experience of process design analysis techniques (PCP, PFMEA)
• Safety Management - IOSH Managing Safety/NEBOSH Certificate
• Experience and knowledge of manufacturing in a high hazard environment
• A working knowledge of Systems Engineering and Engineering design

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