Mechanical Environmental & Compliance Consultant

Job description

Location: Crawley, 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 Environmental & Compliance Consultant

Location: Crawley

Hybrid

Are you a team player with good communication skills? Do you have good stakeholder management and are a self-motivated individual? Got your interest, then look no further...

What the role has to offer:

• Working with new and cutting-edge technology
• Working on a variety of products within the ISR portfolio
• You will operate as a Mechanical Environmental Subject Matter Expert across a wide array of Thales programmes, providing key strategic guidance and expertise (including airworthiness compliance) to support delivery across existing programmes and new product development for ISR

About the team

You will be working within the ISR Hardware Team who provide diverse skills, knowledge, expertise and experience in the mechanical design of equipment for multiple platform environments from submarines to aircraft. This role will require you to operate within multi-functional project/product teams over a complete programme life cycle from Bid Phase to In-service Support. The mechanical design of complex, high performance sub-systems in short timescales requires the use of advanced engineering simulation toolsets.

Our Opportunity

You will need to ensure positive contribution to the achievement of project/product requirements; by influencing the mechanical environmental design of Military and Commercial electronic equipment to meet the operating requirements of airborne, seaborne, submarine and land-based host platforms. Perform in the role as a Subject Matter Expert for mechanical environmental compliance.

Key Responsibilities will include:

• Providing key strategic guidance to product development activities defining the Mechanical Environment for the product and how to apply the relevant Mechanical Environmental standards to a product.
• Generate Mechanical Environmental Control, Test plans & Reports including Technical justifications and analysis of Mechanical Environmental results.
• Lead / Assist in the Lab with measurements when necessary.
• Lead and coordinate Mechanical Environmental test readiness activities for projects to ensure successful transition into test.
• Review of sub-contractors Mechanical Environmental test reports
• Support the theoretical assessment of the design and its associated requirements to ensure that equipment mechanical environmental performance requirements are met, including structural, dynamic and thermal performance.
• Peer reviewing of designs and documentation.
• Estimation of tasks and generation of plans including reporting on progress
• Comply with local and company processes and procedures (supported by the Thales Engineering team).
• Support the hardware engineering discipline Leadership Team

10% travel required to customer sites and relevant test houses within the UK.

About You

You will have...

• Extensive knowledge and experience in Mechanical Engineering
• Degree in mechanical/aeronautical engineering, alternatively HNC/HND with experience and a proven track record.
• Experience of Airworthiness (MAA)

• Relevant design experience in a similar field with a good understanding of computational techniques.
• Experience in deriving mechanical environmental requirements for land, sea and air platforms.
• Experience in designing for Mechanical Environment
• Good knowledge of materials and finishes for harsh environments.
• Experience in supporting/overseeing qualification testing.
• Experience in developing qualification test plans and schedules.
• Generation of technical reports
• This role will require full SC clearance without any restrictions/caveats, either current or ability to gain full clearance is essential. For more information and guidance please visit the UKSV website.

Desirable:

• Certification in Airworthiness (SME Environmental)
• Good working knowledge of MOD/Military procedures and specifications.
• Experience in the design of equipment for military environments e.g. racks, cardframes, electronic modules, and surveillance sensors.
• Familiar working with relevant Defence/Military standards.

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 you'll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Benefits at Thales

Alongside a competitive base salary, we offer a variable compensation plan bonus and benefits package, which includes;

• Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00pm
• Pension Scheme
• 28 days annual leave (Plus Bank Holidays)
• Life Cover and private health cover
• Progression and Development Opportunities
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
• Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
• Development focused targets and relocation support can be provided if required along with a variety of learning, development and career enhancement opportunities.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

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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.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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