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Location: United Kingdom
Job type: Permanent
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Zenon are pleased to be supporting a leading global manufacturer of aerospace sensors for the aviation market, to source a Principal Product Engineer. This position will be permanent, full time, and based in the South East of the UK.
The successful candidate will lead a team of product engineers, whilst demonstrating a high level of technical ability.
Benefits:-
- Competitive salary
- Flexible/home working
- Company pension scheme
- Life insurance
Main Duties and Responsibilities:-
- Create detailed product designs to meet budgets, reliability & performance (NRC & RC)
- Provide technical support to the project teams, suppliers, customers and others
- Produce and deliver technical presentations to customers, employees and suppliers
- Provide estimations on design engineering activities and ensure they are met
- Identify & mitigate technical risks
- Remain abreast and comply with technology export control legislation
- Be accountable for delivering projects the Project Management Office, in line with time constraints and all critical success factors
- Assist other functions with current technologies
- Generate product specifications
- Participate in design reviews, bother internally and externally
- Validate & verify designs e.g. testing, test sequence, similarity/analysis reports, defining number of units required and supporting build of prototype/development units.
- Document designs in terms of drawings, parts, materials, and logbook
- Define, organise, analyse and report all necessary reliability demonstration activities
- Support the identification of main characteristics or critical to quality functions
- Support the Win New Business process
- Responsible for the configuration control of the part liaising with the project manager.
- Hold an understanding of design tools e.g. DFMEA, DFx etc.
- Perform the role of Concept Design Engineer, if needed
- Liaise closely with Manufacturing engineers to ensure design satisfies manufacturability
- Day to day management of engineers
- Ensure sufficient cooperation with the manufacturing function to ensure manufacturability
- Assist with the integration of teams
- Continuously strive for improvement within the product & engineering department
- Perform the role of R&D Engineer, TRL 1-5, if required.
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