Job Title: Mechanical Engineer 6-month Fixed Term Contract
Function: Mechanical Engineering
Reporting to: Ken Haines -Head of Mechanical Engineering
Background
Taking decades of expertise from advanced telemetry, data-driven performance optimisation and virtual product development, join us on a journey like no other. We are creating products inspired by motorsport to provide enhancements to the world around us.
Our Mechanical Engineering teams deliver feasible, data-led solutions and have the capability to provide input across all McLaren Applied engineering programmes. Our multi-disciplinary teams adopt an open and inquisitive mindset, eager to explore and solve engineering challenges. We apply world-leading cutting-edge engineering tools, techniques and processes ranging from novel insight generation techniques, concept creation, detailed design and verification through to product delivery.
Our teams’ value is realised through a number of key strengths, including mechanical simulation-driven optimisation; advanced 3D modelling and visualisation; high-performance materials expertise; prototyping and performance validation testing; and design excellence for production.
Purpose of the Role
- Support the Mechanical Engineering design on a single project in the field of vehicle simulation.
- Working remotely, with some on-site work with our team in the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking.
- Standard working hours, 40-hour week, Monday to Friday.
Principal Accountabilities
- Mechanical engineering design and development on a simulator motion platform project.
- Efficiently carry out mechanical design tasks which have been prioritised by the project leadership team.
- Create 3D detailed CAD models in Siemens NX, sharing these with the project technical lead and wider project team.
- Proactively seek relevant design information and historical design knowledge from experts across McLaren, including McLaren Racing and McLaren Automotive.
- Design and create test rigs to explore design performance.
- Support the creation of design verification test plans and support the execution of tests.
- Gather and interpret test results, iterating engineering designs as needed.
- Create designs suitable for manufacture, sourcing and liaising with manufacturing partners.
Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications and Experience
- Minimum BEng Mechanical Engineering degree, or equivalent technical degree.
- Experience of and comfortable with creating concept designs when requirements are undefined, partially known or fluctuate.
- Experience of adding mechanical detail to high-level concept designs, transforming design visions into feasible engineering designs.
- Proficient in 3D CAD solid modelling ideally using Siemens NX, with some Class A surface modelling competency desirable but not essential.
- Some knowledge of structural finite element analysis, ideally using Altair Hyperworks Suite.
- Familiar with BS8888:2011, or equivalent, for the generation and checking of engineering drawings.
- Experience of taking designs through to manufacture, with full consideration of DfX at the design stage including tolerance stack analyses.
- Skilled at writing design documentation to a high standard, with the ability to deliver impactful presentations with confidence to internal and external audiences.
- Strong technical ability.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Attention to detail.
- Self-starter, able to work autonomously under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
- Identify technical issues and take a proactive approach to addressing them.
- Collaborative approach with others, thinking creatively and sharing openly to produce workable ideas and novel solutions.
All employees must ensure compliance with the Company Health and Safety Policy, and all relevant other statutory Health and Safety legislation.
This job description may not detail all duties allocated to the post holder, nor cover duties of a similar nature which are commensurate with the role, which may from time to time be reasonably required by the relevant manager.