Location: Cheadle, United Kingdom

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Mechanical Engineer

Cheadle - some flexibility for home/hybrid working

Overview

Thales UK provides armed forces with crucial military technology, including sophisticated Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, Surveillance, Targeting Acquisition and Reconnaissance (C4ISTAR) systems. The aim: to provide a cohesive, rapid response capability to protect our service personnel and defend national interests. We have invested more than £2bn in the UK within the last 10 years and are the second largest defence systems supplier globally.

Our Maritime Hardware Team which designs and develops Autonomous Defence Systems are recruiting for a Mechanical Engineer, responsible for designing specialised mechanical solutions for both autonomous and conventional systems.

The role would be well-suited for anyone who has well-rounded, highly regulated Mechanical Engineering experience looking to take on further responsibility and have experience of taking concepts through to completion.

The role

An experienced Mechanical or Electromechanical Engineer with the ability to understand and define requirements operating as the Mechanical discipline authority within Systems Engineering.

Responsibilities will include:

Carrying out mechanical design activities in a team environment with other engineers.

Working collaboratively with production and procurement to produce cost effective, easy to manufacture design solutions.

Trials and integration support

Working collaboratively with production and procurement to produce cost effective, easy to manufacture design solutions.

Monitoring compliance of designs against target costs and lead times

Experience

An experienced Mechanical Engineer with a degree or equivalent qualification with a solid understanding of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering principals and of Engineering Development lifecycles.

Experience in operating within highly regulated sectors, ideally Maritime, Defence or Aerospace.

Experienced with 3D Cad Systems, ideally CREO or PDMLink

A fundamental understanding of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering principals

A general understanding of Engineering Development lifecycles.

Experience in one or more of the following areas:

Packaging of electronics and associated cabling.

Designing for platform installation.

Design of racking or cabinets

Designing of assembly and mould tooling.

Designing of lifting equipment

Experience in the design of sonar assemblies and/or equipment for the sub-sea environment would be highly advantageous

What we can offer:

We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry.

We hire from within as our first priority, so there will be a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

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