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Senior Mechanical Design Engineer (Part 21J - CVE)

Employer
Babcock
Location
Gloucestershire, Cheltenham
Salary
Competitive Salary
Closing date
18 Aug 2021

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Sector
Engineering
Job Type
Permanent
Hours
Full-time

Job Details

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer (CVE - Part21J)

Staverton, Cheltenham

MCS Onshore

SF34727

About the role:

Here at Babcock International we're looking to recruit a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join our design and competitions team in Staverton to carry out design checking and approvals and CVE responsibilities on airframe design changes.

Babcock Design and Completions conducts in house design, manufacture, installation, test and certification activities for modifications to Civil and Military Aeroplanes and Helicopters including Major Avionics upgrades, Special Mission conversions and Mission Equipment, External Loads and Night Vision Cockpit conversion.

You'll serve a key role within the Design Office and be involved throughout the entire design process; from initial proposal and costing, through concept, design and testing, to certification. In particular, you'll liaise with multiple internal and external parties during the design process to ensure that their team delivers an airworthy, cost effective design solution on time and to budget.

Main Tasks:

  • The production of engineering drawings.
  • The supervision of Designers and planning of team workload to ensure timely delivery of agreed milestones.
  • Verifying compliance of drawings and reports as authorised by the Chief of Office of Airworthiness
  • Providing engineering input for design proposals and estimates.
  • Liaison with the other design leads regarding co-ordination of all aspects of design.

You'll be part of a small and efficient team consisting of 2x Cert Engineers, 2x Electrical Designers and 2 Mechanical Designers.

Core design is mission systems and integration for Police forces and also civilian aircraft (e.g. Western Power Distribution Mission System).

You'll work mainly on EC135, EC145 AW139 aircrafts.

What do I need to do the role?

You'll need extensive experience in an Aerospace Design role, working knowledge of EASA Part 21J and Certification Specifications and ideally have previous experience as a Part 21J Compliance Verification Engineer.

What else do I need to know?

  • The successful candidate must be able to achieve the appropriate security clearance level for this role.

About Babcock International

For more than a century, Babcock, the Aerospace and Defence company, has been trusted to deliver bespoke, highly-skilled engineering services. We help customers in the UK and around the world to improve the capability, reliability and availability of their most critical assets within the four market sectors of Marine, Land, Aviation, and Nuclear, underpinned by a deep understanding of technology integration, unique infrastructure and specialist training.

We're committed to providing a great employee experience in a supportive and engaging environment. The benefits you can expect to enjoy include a generous holiday entitlement, competitive money purchase pension scheme with life assurance and a share ownership scheme. You'll benefit from excellent career and learning and development opportunities to ensure that you grow and achieve your full potential.

Application Guidance

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If you experience difficulties please check our career website for more information. Recruitment correspondence is normally by email so please check your email account and spam folder regularly.

Strength in Diversity

Advancing an inclusive and diverse Babcock

In Babcock, we are committed to equality of opportunity and we appreciate and value the benefit we get from the different life experiences of all of our colleagues. We will continually strive to improve the diversity within our organisation because we know we're not representative of the society we work within and we want to change that. Although we have some way to go to achieve our ambitions, we want to continue to attract the best talent, no matter who they are or how they identify. This will ensure our culture is one centred around respect and inclusivity with people at the heart of what we do. Not because we are the same, but because we accept individuals for who they are and value their differences.

Armed Forces Covenant

We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant. We recognise the value that Serving Personnel, both Regular and Reserves, Veterans, Uniformed Cadet Instructors and Service Families contribute to our business and the United Kingdom. As part of the Covenant, Babcock offers Reservists and Uniformed Cadet Instructors up to 2 week's special paid leave to help them meet their commitments. To find out more please check our career website for more information.

Company

Be Part of Something Big.

From supporting national defence to saving lives and protecting communities, Babcock provides critical, complex engineering services in the UK and internationally.

Babcock delivers vital services and manages complex assets on behalf of their customers across three key markets; defence, emergency services and civil nuclear. You could be part of this, leveraging their technology, expertise, infrastructure and assets to ensure delivery for their customers, for whom failure is not an option.

Career Opportunities at Babcock

Working for Babcock will give you the opportunity to develop your career, with fantastic prospects for promotion, along with the ability to learn transferrable skills and earn nationally recognised qualifications.

Take a look below at the roles Manpower UK is currently recruiting for at Babcock.

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33 Wigmore Street
London
W1U 1QX
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