Senior Mechanical Design Leader – Aerospace & Defense

Quest Global; Huddersfield; Vor Ort; GBP 70.000 - 100.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Quest Global is seeking a Principal Mechanical Design Engineer in the UK aerospace and defence sector. You will lead a design team, coordinate with simulation and delivery, and apply first principles to develop innovative mechanical systems, gears, and transmissions while ensuring cost, timing and quality requirements.

You will drive design reviews, mentor engineers, and deliver high‑quality solutions across multi‑discipline projects, maintaining regulatory compliance and championing continuous

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering or related field.
• Chartered Engineer status is preferred.
• Experience in Aerospace and Defence is required.

Aufgaben

• Provide leadership and line management to the team, coordinating and overseeing their workloads, providing support to ensure that the team delivers, monitoring any issues, and ensuring timescales, KPIs and deadlines are met to meet the requirements of the customer.
• Develop the team by focusing on individual performance and support requirements to achieve high standards.
• Works on multiple major projects of the highest complexity requiring forefront-of-field, innovative solutions.
• Acts independently at the organisational level, being self-supervising, within guidance and expectations of customers.
• Lead non-conformance support and improvements.
• Champion quality deliverables for simulation as well as continuous improvements included within your owned delivery stream.
• Contribute to the creation and implementation of best practice engineering vision, strategy, policies, processes and procedures to aid and improve operational performance.
• Ability to capture and specify the design requirements General and Task Management.
• Lead on complex major projects requiring forefront-of-the-field, innovative, original solutions, provide technical expertise to the team.
• You will participate in internal and external design reviews and you are responsible for the design acceptance by the client.
• Make independent decisions on issues, providing expert technical support within Mechanical Engineering.
• You shall be able to lead projects in a multi-discipline environment and be capable or coordinating all Mechanical engineering and design, with the other disciplines, Process, transmission systems, Gears, Gear box and Marine engineering.
• Strive for continuous improvement and drive your area of delivery autonomously, with particular focus on non-conformance process improvements and preventive measures.

Kenntnisse

Transmission systems

Gears and gear box

Marine engineering

Design review leadership

Teaching and coaching

Core design principles

Ausbildung

Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering

Chartered Engineer (preferred)

Tools

Solid Edge

Siemens NX

AutoCAD

Jobbeschreibung

Quest Global is seeking a Principal Mechanical Design Engineer in the UK aerospace and defence sector. You will lead a design team, coordinate with simulation and delivery, and apply first principles to develop innovative mechanical systems, gears, and transmissions while ensuring cost, timing and quality requirements.

You will drive design reviews, mentor engineers, and deliver high‑quality solutions across multi‑discipline projects, maintaining regulatory compliance and championing continuous