Mechanical Architect in Bolton, Greater Manchester

About the Role

Our client has an opportunity for a Missile Mechanical Architect to join them on a contract basis for 6 months with likely extension. This role is to gather and manage the missile mechanical architecture requirements to achieve missile performance, on time and on cost and overall layout vs compliance. This involves providing justification of the design and coordinating the verification evidence of missile performance to support certification.

Location & Hours

• Role: Missile Mechanical Architect
• Location: Stevenage or Bolton, fully onsite (must be happy to travel between locations)
• Hours: 37 per week
• Clearance: Full SC required before starting
• Hourly Rate: £60 per hour via Umbrella, inside IR35

Key Responsibilities

• Establish the Missile Airframe Task Requirements Specification (TRS) to ensure a structured & coherent mechanical response to the overall Missile TRS.
• Manage the mechanical interface with the launcher.
• Manage Mechanical & Thermal Interfaces across the Missile.
• Define the optimum mechanical architecture for all variants of the missile, ensuring the mechanical architecture and interfaces meet requirements.
• Implement GMA (Generic Missile Architecture) Policies to ensure Modularity & Reuse objectives are achieved.
• Develop the overall proving logic for the validation of the Airframe.
• Ensure mechanical compliance to the Airframe TRS for missile certificate of design.
• Interface with and manage customer expectations throughout the development process.
• Produce Statements of Work and plans for activities within their sphere of responsibility.
• Provide direct technical supervision of engineers within their team and indirect management of engineers in the extended project team.
• Control assigned budgets, manage personal workload and identify further resource needs.

Requirements

• Educated to degree level or an equivalent qualification having obtained significant experience of mechanical engineering.
• Ability to technically manage internal & sub-contract activities.
• Strong leadership skills, able to establish a clear engineering vision.
• Good knowledge & experience of missile mechanical design, including:
  • Static & Dynamic Analysis
  • Design for Environment
  • Thermal Management
• Good understanding of broader engineering disciplines, including:
  • Aerodynamics
  • Testability
  • Production
• Experience developing proving logic and managing the of compliance evidence towards Certificates of Design.
• Experience across the full Product Life Cycle.
• Ability to influence senior managers and other stakeholders.
• Strong interpersonal and well-developed communication skills (written & verbal).
• Willingness to travel within UK and Europe.
• General competency with common IT systems (Outlook, Excel etc).

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