Senior Design Engineer

Eaton Titchfield

Currently located in Titchfield, Hampshire, Eaton's Aerospace business stands as a global leader in aerospace fuel systems.

Our site is undergoing a significant and exciting transformation as we relocate to a newly constructed facility in Daedalus.

This state-of-the-art site will serve as the Centre of Excellence for aerospace manufacturing across Europe, marking a new era of innovation and excellence.

We pride ourselves as a premier supplier of fully integrated fuel systems for fixed and rotary-wing aircraft. We boast extensive fuel and air system test facilities, facilitating comprehensive testing across a range of conditions with various fuel types

Currently located in Titchfield, Hampshire, Eaton's Aerospace business stands as a global leader in aerospace fuel systems.

Our site is undergoing a significant and exciting transformation as we relocate to a newly constructed facility in Daedalus.

This state-of-the-art site will serve as the Centre of Excellence for aerospace manufacturing across Europe, marking a new era of innovation and excellence.

We pride ourselves as a premier supplier of fully integrated fuel systems for fixed and rotary-wing aircraft. We boast extensive fuel and air system test facilities, facilitating comprehensive testing across a range of conditions with various fuel types

What you'll do:

Our Aerospace Fuels Division have an opportunity for a Senior Engineer - Design, for aircraft fuel and inerting system components for civil and military applications. Based at our Eaton Ltd site in Titchfield, Hampshire. z

The role will deliver the product design activities for a wide range aircraft pumps, valves and actuator products spanning the complete product lifecycle from concept development, detailed design, development, verification and qualification through to post design support. Producing models and detailed manufacturing drawings using CREO 3D CAD package preferred, experience of product design on mechanical and electro mechanical products is essential.

The successful candidate will have excellent organizational, communication and presentation skills enabling the candidate to execute their activity's to quality cost and time commitments.
Previous experience working in a safety critical arena, such as aerospace, automotive, rail or nuclear industry would be advantageous, although applicants from other high technology engineering backgrounds will be considered. "

• Generate designs of Aircraft fuel system products to meet customer requirements using 3D CAD (CREO).
• Complete tolerance line ups, detailed drawings, DFMEAs, Engineering Change Requests, Customer approval paperwork and other design related activities.
• Participate in DFMA activities.
• Investigate and sentence non conformance requests, provide general technical support, manage obsolescence etc. whilst providing robust technical justifications for decisions.
• Drive to meet turnaround time goals / commitment dates for closure of Engineering activities. These activities have a direct impact on monthly business finances (sales and scrap) and customer on time delivery.
• Review and provide clear documentation (marked up prints) of changes required to drawings to address manufacturing / supplier issues such as obsolesence, manufacturing easement, cost out, component definition etc.
• Support the process of creating customer approval paperwork where required, in order to gain customer approval for permanent changes to designs.
• Provide technical authority to sign off Non-conformance requests and detailed manufacturing drawings.
• Design approval for In-Service and Cost out projects where required.
• Present designs at Preliminary, Critical and Detailed design reviews, both internal and customer.
• Present and attend assessments of Non-conformance requests and drawing change applications at material and change review boards.

• Honours Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
• At least four to seven years engineering experience in a relevant professional engineering environment ideally gained in the aerospace or equivalent high technology industry.
• Electro/Mechanical Engineering, ideally of aircraft fuel system products.
• Knowledge of encapsulate products used on electrical/electronic components would be useful.