Development Engineer
Location: England
Description: Cobham is employing Development Engineer right now, this career will be placed in England. More details about this career opportunity kindly see the descriptions. -
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Description
Development Engineer
Background:
We require a Development Engineer at Cobham Mission Equipment in Wimborne to develop Air-to-Air Refuelling (AAR) equipment (wing/centreline externally mounted refuelling pods, internal fuselage mounted refuelling units) and Auxiliary Mission Equipment (air-to-air refuelling probes, weapons carriage and release systems) for a wide range of customers. These systems require many leading edge technologies to meet demanding performance and safety requirements; including: precision hydraulic and fuel systems, motor drive technologies, composite braking and actuation, avionic control systems incorporating complex electronic hardware, software and system control, monitoring and indication, aerodynamic metallic and composite structures. Due to a strong order book and increasing workload we need to add a Development Engineer to our current engineering team.
Cobham
is one of the world's leading companies engaged in the development, delivery and support of leading-edge aerospace and defence systems in the air, on land and at sea. Our clients and partners trust Cobham to deliver the mission-critical technology they need, and we trust our employees to draw on their ingenuity and passion to deliver those solutions.
Main Duties:
The successful candidate will work as part of the engineering team collating equipment and system level requirements qualification evidence in order to demonstrate compliance to customer requirements. This may involve tasks across either of the main business areas of Air to Air Refuelling and Auxiliary Mission Equipment. The Development Engineer will be expected to follow current departmental process and will be encouraged to participate in the further development of these processes. The successful candidate will work as part of a an engineering team at IPT level or at product level supporting activity to demonstrate function and performance in environment.
The majority of the work will be carried out at Cobham Mission Equipment’s new purpose built engineering facility in Wimborne, Dorset. Occasional (infrequent) travel may be required.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities for Development Engineers include:
- Provide technical input to requirements definition and validation.
- Customer and supplier facing responsibilities to discuss and agree qualification strategy and activity.
- Compilation of development and qualification plans including functional, environmental and mechanical aspects.
- Compilation of test procedures and reports.
- Analysis and interpretation of test data.
- Equipment and system evaluation against requirements to produce qualification statements including analysis and comparison of requirements and build standards.
- Input to verification matrices at equipment, sub-system or system level to demonstrate compliance to customers.
- Planning, arranging and attending test activities including control of test hardware, test support equipment, transportation and test cost and schedule.
- Relevant degree or equivalent
- Experience of requirements management tools (DOORS, CRADLE etc)
- Knowledge of environmental standards (RTCA DO160, MIL-STD-810 etc)
- Experience of performing environmental and functional testing
- Experience of development engineering activities and understanding of product lifecycles.
Good communication and negotiation skills
Ability to effectively analyse and manage information
Ability to work effectively on your own and as part of a team
Ability to coach and mentor engineers in the development engineering team.
Job Category
Engineering
Primary Location
UK-England-Dorset
Organization
Cobham Mission Equipment Wimborne
Schedule
Full-time
Recruiter
Chris Riche-Webber
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This career starts available on: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:22:00 GMT