Role: Sustainment Engineer
Location: Cheltenham
Duration: 12 months
Rate: Up to £70/hour (Umbrella)
Inside IR35
Role Summary:
The Sustainment Engineer will provide through-life design authority and technical oversight for the Military power production products and components. This will include maintaining consistency of a product's performance while ensuring its adherence to design & customer requirements.
Day to day responsibility will be to support and drive technical/design queries to a speedy conclusion whether relating to failure investigations, obsolescence, cost out or enhanced design changes.
You will be working within a cross functional engineering team and expected to gain support (when needed) from other business functions to expediate and simplify tasks.
Key Activities:
- Own and maintain the Configuration Management Plan for assigned program, responsible for execution of design data including changes to supporting technical documentation, drawings, bills of materials, specifications, etc,
- Providing engineering leadership to purchasing queries.
- Promote Technical excellence within team and support other groups through lessons learnt, process improvements, technical reviews
- Establish and maintain relationships with internal and external customers, ensuring customer requirements are understood and met
- Provide Leadership and Technical direction to the Power Sustainment Engineering team
- Become the technical focal for products, transitioning into design authority post toll gate 9.
- Develop solutions to technical problems, including support to production, field repairs, and component obsolescence
- Support the implementation of design changes resulting from FRACAS activities (Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action System
- Drive down the cost of production through the generation and execution of process improvement and material cost reduction initiatives through design
- Managing New Product Introduction (NPI) knowledge transfer and process transfer to ensure product is ready for manufacturing & meets DFM.
- Ensuring compliance with mandatory regulations, standards and company processes
Experience:
- Experience of working in a similar role and environment, not limited to aerospace
- Experience of working in a design role
- Strong design document & configuration knowledge.
- Product knowledge & Expertise with People Management Skills.
- Multifunctional & Multi cultural Team Working.
- Engineering repair & production concession management.
- Demonstrated problem solving skills.
- Continuous improvement & Results driven.
To apply please send your CV's in the first instance
