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Job Description

In this role you will be responsible for the delivery of mechanical engineering projects to clients or internal project teams. A key requirement of the role is to support our Structures team although work on other projects is expected.

Key responsibilities:

• Understand client requirements and aspirations to identify and agree scopes of work.
• Develop costed proposals (full scope or specific elements of scope for multi-discipline jobs);
• Deliver high quality work to clients according to agreed timescales and budgets.
• Provide specialist structural expertise to other delivery teams to support delivery of multi-disciplinary projects.
• Maintain a working understanding of relevant standards.
• Support the development of other colleagues through knowledge and experience transfer; and
• Authoring, checking and approval of technical reports.

Example work activities:

The role does not necessarily require applicants with experience in all of the following areas, these are provided as examples.

Supporting train manufacturers, owners and operators in:

• The introduction of new rolling stock through design scrutiny in support of the Certification Body.
• Structural analysis of mechanical parts to appropriate design standards.
• Investigation of in-service issues / problem solving.
• Use of Finite Element Analysis or Hand Calculations to prove structural integrity and compliance with relevant design standards.
• Undertake Project Manager/Project Director role for projects managed by the Mechanical Systems team; and
• Identify technical, commercial and safety risks associated with projects and ensure these are managed through each project phase.

Experience is required in some or all of the following areas:

• Bogies and suspension.
• Wheelsets.
• Car bodies/Bodyshells.
• Crashworthiness.
• Fracture Mechanics; and
• Finite Element Analysis.