Position Title: Senior Structural Design Engineer
Department: Operations
Reporting To: Design Manager
Location: Glasgow City Centre
Overview
The Senior Structural Design Engineer is a key member of the engineering team, providing a service to the company, in the following areas:
- Producing designs for new and modified products.
- Validating these designs through trials, testing and field evaluations and assisting with the production trials of new products.
- Resolving technical problems that occur in production, product development and continuous improvement.
- Providing technical support for the sales and site services departments.
The jobholder will:
- Familiarise him/herself with the company's products, processes and materials, and keep abreast of relevant developments in legislation and competitive products.
- Carry out structural analysis work, including finite element analysis.
- Assist in all other engineering functions as required.
Key Accountabilities
- Operate a safe working environment in line with company policies & procedures.
- Maintaining records of personal development and training.
- Review enquiry documentation.
- Draft design briefs, search relevant legislation and standards, review existing designs.
- Carry out structural analysis work, including finite element analysis.
- Carry out mechanical and process design work.
- Check and review design documents produced by others.
- Draft test procedures; and installation, operation and maintenance instructions.
- Liaise with certification authorities to obtain product approvals and endorsements.
- Ensure that all design work is reviewed and approved.
- Produce design reports in a well organised fashion and in accordance with the departmental procedures.
- Contribute to the continuing improvement programme to reduce costs and raise quality.
- Support, mentor and assist colleagues in the department.
- Provide engineering support to production, sales and site services departments.
Management Relationships
Direct reports (internal employees / external parties):
- Structural Design Engineer
Indirect relationships (internal employees / external parties):
- HSEQ.
- Colleagues within the department.
- Customers.
- Other Balmoral personnel.
- Certifying Authorities.
- Component suppliers.
- Production personnel.
- HR.
Qualifications
Required:
- Masters in structural engineering - Preferred.
- Honours Degree in structural engineering - Essential.
Desirable:
- Graduate membership of an engineering institute.
- MIStrutE or similar.
- Chartered in the process of becoming a chartered structural engineer.
Candidate Profile
Candidate Profile (include Skills & Experience, Attributes, Behaviours).
Experience:
Required:
- 5+years' general engineering experience including.
- 2-3 years' structural analysis experience.
Desirable:
- 6 months shall have been spent on finite element analysis.
- Experience of steel and Eurocode materials.
- Experience of nonlinear analysis.
Skills & Abilities
- Strong organisational and decision making skills is essential.
- Ability to read and understand technical drawings.
- Excellent inter personal skills.
- First class planning & organisational skills.
- Good presentation, written and oral communication skills.
- Must be an innovative thinker and commercially aware.
- Must be willing to develop interpersonal and communication skills.
- Must be computer literate particularly in Microsoft Excel and Word and
- Engineering software packages for which further training will be provided.
Desirable:
- AutoCAD Mechanical Desktop and Inventor are the preferred modelling software.
- Robot and Nastran is the preferred FEA software.
- MathCAD and Excel are the preferred calculation software.
- Experience of other software is a benefit.
Personal Qualities
- Mature and customer focused attitude (able to handle difficult discussions and customer complaints) is essential.
- A belief in the fact that customers are revenue & everything else is overhead is essential.
- Able to perform in an environment where accountability and ownership represent Core Values is essential.
- Excited by change and driven to be part of a successful team is desirable.
Additional Role Requirements
Overall, we employ people who are flexible, methodical and effective team players. Everyone must commit to learning and be willing to thrive in a "Right First Time" culture. Your personal values must align with the Core Value of the Business, and you must never treat any customer (internal and or external) with complacency.