We have an exciting opportunity for Mechanical Design Engineers within our F1 Power Unit Concept Team. The F1 PU Concept Team is responsible for directing new ideas and technology into the PU and car concepts, delivering performance and efficiency benefits for race 1, year on year.
Job no: 492273
Work type: Permanent
Location: Brixworth
Department: Chief Engineering
If you're successful in this role, you'll…
- Be inquisitive and creative with engineering; able to spot opportunities for improvement at component, system, power unit and car level
- Draw in useful information or technologies from any source, internal or external
- Can prove the validity of your own new concepts using first principles
- Are able to persevere the most challenging problems, with strong self-motivation
- Direct ideas and technology into the power unit and car concepts, delivering performance and efficiency benefits for race 1, year on year, whilst maintaining reliability requirements
- Bang the power unit drum with Mercedes AMG F1 to leverage the maximum amount of power unit performance potential onto the car, whilst keeping all of HPP fully involved with concept evolution
- Create robust and versatile models to demonstrate concepts, both in solids and surfaces
- Build effective relationships with a variety of other departments
Therefore we need you to…
Be skilled at…
- Engineering solutions from first principles, demonstrating the ability to undertake fundamental calculations to support the design concept
- Creating solutions considering material selection, manufacturability, heat treatment & other process requirements, surface finish requirements, geometrical tolerancing & control over critical features, etc.
- Reading and creating engineering drawings
- Using CAD software (preferably CATIA)
- Using mathematical and engineering first principles ability to guide instinct
- Abaqus & CATIA FEA, Matlab / Simulink and Excel (proficient)
- Designing and developing creative and innovative power unit concepts
Have experience of…
- Designing highly loaded mechanical components & systems
- Power unit design, integration and deployment within a race car
- CATIA V5 complex solid and surface modelling.
Demonstrate knowledge of…
- Mechanical engineering practices and systems
- Internal combustion engines, their systems & energy recovery systems (breadth & depth)
- Understanding, critiquing, challenging and developing car requirements to maximise power unit potential
Hold these qualifications…
- BEng / BSc Qualified (2:1 minimum) in Mechanical Engineering or allied discipline
Be…
- Creative and innovative
- Thorough in your approach
- Self motivated
- Accountable and credible
In return you’ll get the chance to be part of a team with some of the best in the world, at a state of the art facility, with a very real chance to make history.
We look forward to meeting you!