Principal Design Engineer / Assistant Chief Engineer - Driveline and Transmission Systems

Description

• Responsibility for coaching and mentoring design engineers in design techniques and departmental processes.
• Management of Bill of Materials.
• Close cooperation with FEA, CFD and Simulation teams to ensure products meet design validation requirements.
• Close cooperation with manufacturing and process engineers to ensure products meet DFMA
• Liaison with suppliers and other Ricardo departments to ensure the required information is available when needed and customer requests are dealt with in a timely manner.
• Creation of technical reports and documentation as required for engineering projects.
• Support to the business development team with inputs on mechanical design related details.

Requirements

• Ability to take on project roles such as Chief Designer or Chief Engineer as required by projects, ability to lead small- to mid-size project teams.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
• Experience with PLM systems, Windchill
• Detailed mechanical design work including basic stress calculations, FMEA’s, 2D detailing, 2D layouts, Tolerance stacks as required.
• Substantive experience in Mechanical Design Engineering.
• Understanding of market sector trends and market development.
• Broad range of mechanical design knowledge specializing in one of the following areas: Transmission, Hybrid transmissions, EDU’s.
• Confident, proactive and adaptive ability to take the lead in challenging situations to achieve company goals and objectives.
• Strong technical and report writing communication skill in English.
• 3D CAD skills with one or more major CAD systems (e.g. CREO, CATIA, NX)
• Solid understanding of mechanical engineering principles with ability to interpret FEA, CFD results and incorporate them in mechanical design.
• Degree (Bachelor or Masters) in Mechanical Engineering or similar field or with equivalent technical experience.
• Able to prioritize and organize multiple project workloads and tasks working to tight deadlines.
• Able to travel to support Ricardo’s worldwide client base.
• Solid understanding of manufacturing processes, and their impact on design, experience with DFMA.
• Concept and definitive 3D mechanical design of systems, system assemblies and complex components such as transmission casings, rotating components, gears, injection moulded components.
• Ability to understand, produce and check 2D technical drawings to a high standard with high GD&T competency.
• Advanced capabilities in Microsoft Office.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance