Weights Engineer

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Role: Weights Engineer

Location: Bristol - Hybrid

Salary: £44,000 - £52,000 depending on experience

Industry: Defence, Marine Engineering, Naval Architecture

As a Weights Engineer you will have the chance to work on naval platforms at all stages of the product life cycle from early design to build support and commission.

The Weight Engineering Team are a multi-disciplinary Team of Engineers and Data Scientists who estimate, collate and present mass properties data for a number of multi billion pound marine engineering programmes.

What the role of the Weights Engineer entails:

Some of the main duties of the Weights Engineer will include:

Collate mass property data for equipment and systems to deliver weight and centroid control on multi billion pound marine engineering programmes
Support the Mass Properties Lead to aggregate weight and centroid reports and present the status to the Chief Naval Architect
Collaborate with system design engineers to accurate estimate mass, centroid and design maturity of multiple mechanical and electronic systems
Maintain a comprehensive database of parts mass properties
Provide input to and lead weight saving strategies and maintain the list of weight risk and opportunities for each discipline area
Interrogate CAD models to determine estimates for mass properties with associated uncertainties
Utilise statistical analysis to provide a whole boat picture of weight risk and opportunity to senior leaders, stakeholders and our customers

What experience you need to be the successful Weights Engineer:

Essential

Ability to obtain SC Clearance - Sole UK Nationality
Qualified in STEM subject or extensive experience
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
IT literate in Microsoft packages, experienced knowledge in Excel
Ability to understand and interpret engineering dataDesirable

Experience working with large, Electrical or Mechanical systems
Data analysis experience including interpretation, visualisation, manipulation and presentation
Experience of using CAD packages and programmes
CEng/IEng status or a clear pathway to achieving professional recognition

Benefits: Overtime, Private Healthcare,14% pension, 25 days holiday, free shares and more!

This really is a fantastic opportunity for a Weights Engineer to progress their career. If you are interested please apply as soon as possible as this position will be filled quickly so don't miss out!

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