Senior/Principal Designer and Mass Engineer

Overview

In this role you will lead the design of an advanced flight vehicle from concept to detailed design within a small, senior engineering team. You’ll balance performance, aerodynamics, structure, thermal and manufacturing considerations while owning mass properties and delivering CAD models and drawings. You will guide design reviews, perform trade studies, and contribute to engineering roadmaps with technical leadership. This is a hands-on, high-precision position that shapes a multi-year development programme for defence technology. You’ll work autonomously yet collaboratively in a fast-moving, high-technology environment.

Pay / Benefits

• Equity participation
• comprehensive benefits package

Responsibilities

• Lead vehicle design activities from system architecting and concept development through to detailed design
• Generate and assess alternative design concepts balancing performance, aerodynamic, structural, thermal and manufacturing requirements
• Produce and maintain CAD models and technical drawings using CATIA, SolidWorks, Creo or similar
• Support design reviews, trade studies and technical decision-making across integrated engineering disciplines
• Own mass properties engineering including component mass estimates, centre of gravity and inertia data
• Maintain mass properties databases, monitor mass growth and margins, report trends against targets
• Work with subsystem suppliers to validate mass, centre of gravity and inertia information
• Present technical findings with leadership, mentoring and input into roadmaps

Key requirements

• Degree in Aerospace Engineering or Mechanical Engineering
• Significant design engineering experience in missile, aerospace, defence or high-reliability sectors
• Experience leading design activities from concept to detailed design
• Strong CAD capability and DFM thinking (unit cost, part count, assembly complexity)
• Experience in mass properties estimation, tracking and reporting
• Understanding of how design decisions influence performance, aero, structural and thermal
• Knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering and integrated design principles
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication and presentation skills

• collaborative
• self-motivated
• clear communication
• CATIA
• SolidWorks
• Creo

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