Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Manpower UK; Farnborough; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 113,000; Full time

Job summary

Manpower UK in Farnborough is seeking a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer for a six-month contract with hybrid working and occasional travel to Amesbury or Malvern. The role pays £70 per hour inside IR35 via Umbrella for 37 hours per week, and requires SC clearance or eligibility.

You will lead the delivery of mechanical design solutions, taking ownership of complex tasks that demand high-integrity engineering and sound judgement. Travel to ad hoc sites may be required.

Qualifications

• Strong mechanical design expertise and leadership capabilities.
• Ability to manage challenging technical work.
• SC clearance or eligibility required.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of mechanical design solutions and own complex tasks.
• Guide colleagues to hardware solutions and coordinate design reviews.
• Ensure high-integrity engineering with thorough problem exploration.

Skills

Mechanical design

Leadership

Tools

FEA

CFD

Thermal analysis

Job description

This six-month contract as a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer with Manpower UK sits in Farnborough, offering hybrid working with occasional travel to Amesbury or Malvern. Paying £70 per hour inside IR35 via umbrella, the position runs 37 hours weekly and requires SC clearance or eligibility. The successful candidate leads delivery of mechanical design solutions, taking ownership of complex tasks that demand high-integrity engineering and sound judgement. Responsibilities include exploring problems thoroughly, guiding colleagues toward their own hardware solutions, and coordinating design reviews. Applicants should demonstrate strong mechanical design expertise, leadership capability, and the ability to manage challenging technical work while supporting team development.

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Duration: 6 months

Rate: £70 per hour inside IR35 via Umbrella (37 hours per week)

Location: Farnborough (Hybrid, travel to Amesbury/ Malvern may be required ad hoc)

SC Clearance/ eligibility is required for this position

Role Purpose

Being a go-to individual within the Allocated Design Team andamp; surrounding SME''s, the Senior Engineer - Mechanical Designer''s Main role will be leading the delivery of Mechanical Design solutions and taking ownership of delivery on complex tasks, requiring high integrity engineering and managing complex, unusual tasks involving significant challenges. They will explore and test the problem space thoroughly, guiding others in generating their own hardware solutions and be prepared to lead and co-ordinate the reviews and testing of these ideas at design reviews and group critiques to delight customers. The company support numerous Domains, such as Aircraft Modification, Land Platforms Development andamp; Autonomy and Ship design. Each Team will have unique engineering specialities andamp; focusses. The individual will have gained significant and wide-ranging experience in the domain specific technical skills of a complex nature - E.g. FEA, CFD, Thermal Analysis, compliance by way of example.

Key Accountabilities

• Reviews: Can Guide others and corral SME''s at Design Reviews andamp; hold pre-reviews, Chair Reviews for internal tasks / lower level, single customers; may be working towards Design Review Chair competency Exhibits Gravitas coupled with captivating and compelling content to sell a persuasive stance / argument; Makes concepts immersive / real to the customer Responsible for bringing together andamp; chairing Engineering reviews Sets the expectation / culture for visual standards in the local team - encourages higher standards.
• Delivery: Directly Contributes to continuous improvement - live during delivery. Able to write detailed reports and manage technical teams to deliver optimised designs. Understands verification andamp; validation needs andamp; sets up the requirement gathering to maximise success for later stages Understands the regulatory environment andamp; needs of the project Uses Prototyping mentality beyond hardware creation Foresees overspend andamp; helps the PM keep the project on track. Works with the PM to recognised realisation of risk and exploit externally driven change Understands the value proposition Design are trying to bring by delivering this piece of work andamp; ensures we keep focus on maximising that value. Can oversee the putting together of TDP''s and knows how to ensure they are robust Supports others in developing their creative confidence to experiment.
• Go-to individual for applying design thinking methodology beyond design May be able to Value Stream Map andamp; show others how to maximise Value for the end customer Technical: Provides advice or presentation to customers, stakeholders and peers. Inventive in problem solving andamp; drives the standards for the community Maintain high levels of integrity when measuring - outcome of measurements may be political / have regulatory or business implications knows when to stop the team andamp; measure the vari