Lead Mechanical Engineer – Military Vehicle Systems

at  NP Aerospace Limited

Hours: 08:00-16:35 (MonThu) 08:00-15:10 (Fri)
Vacancy Type: Full-time, Permanent & Hybrid (subject to operational needs)
Pay: £45,000 - £55,000 per annum (subject to experience) + Discretionary Bonuses + Benefits

JOB SUMMARY

Are you a Lead Engineer who is keen to apply a wide range of mechanical engineering skills and grow your career towards becoming a lead technical authority in a challenging and exciting environment?
If you are up for the challenge, keep reading and find out much more about this fantastic opportunity!
The roles primary responsibility is to support the Core Engineering requirements for all military vehicles under PDS Core Contracts. The successful candidate will function as the Core Lead Engineer within the project team with responsibility for direct engagement with the customer to ensure the requirements of the contract are fulfilled across the Engineering portfolio.
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MORE INFO ABOUT THE ROLE

The work will entail being the Engineering point of contact for all core related activities which will consist of engagement with support to the customer base, including providing detailed responses to customer queries on the legacy vehicle fleet.
You will work closely with the Programme Manager as the engineering subject matter expert and first point of contact for all customer engineering-based requirements. This role will also involve working with the Principal Engineers, wider engineering team ILS and design teams as required to ensure all customer related queries are answered and submitted within the required timescales.
As part of this role, you will also be required to provide technical direction to sub-contracted subject matter experts in support of all engineering requirements that require additional support outside of NPA.
You will be responsible for supporting all Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and maintaining the relevant documentation to ensure that a fully auditable trail from cradle to grave for all customer-based queries is maintained.
You will be part of the customer facing team able to articulate engineering concepts to engineers, project managers and other key internal and external stakeholders and lead on the engineering support provided under the core contract as part of these meetings. You will also act as the SME on any safety related meetings seeking support from appropriate departments as required to support the role of Engineering Authority.

JOB DUTIES

• Engineering lead on all PDS Core Contracts.
• Support the Core programme manager in maintaining all contract KPIs in support of the customer requirements and NPA business objectives.
• Maintain all NPA/customer deliverable metrics and provide a monthly and quarterly report detailing these metrics.
• Present these metrics to the customer at the monthly project meetings and provide an overview of current engineering status.
• Provide support as required to any Non Core Tasking (NCT) work, either requested by Engineering Leads or Project Managers, with the agreement of the Core Program Manager.
• PDS Core point of contact for Safety and Environmental Panels and Emergency Safety and Environmental Panels (SEP and eSEP) and liaise with the Principal Engineers as required to support these requirements.
• Manage, record, and distribute all Core Safety and Engineering Notices received from the customer.
• Be the point of contact for all PAR/TQNs and agree with the relevant department heads course of action to answer each PAR/TQN.
• Maintain the NPA Database for relevant PDS Contract to ensure all PAR/TQN submission and responses are recorded for future reporting metrics.
• Be the engineering point of contact for any change requests for Core and Spares.
• Generation of a range of professional-standard engineering specifications, presentations and reports detaining technical work undertaken coupled with regular progress reporting to stakeholders.
• You will work to the departments standards and procedures and suggest any changes that would improve these procedures.
• Oversee the return/disposal for any PDS Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) provided as part of the PDS Core contract requirements. Working the internal team and customer to ensure all requirements are met.
• Provide support to wider business needs when requested, with the agreement from the PDS Core programme manager.
  The above statements are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities required.