Mechanical Design Engineer
Certain Advantage · Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Mechanical Design Engineer at Certain Advantage, based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, paying £50.00 per hour. This is a contract role with hybrid working.
- Salary
- £50.00 per hour
- Location
- Stevenage, Hertfordshire · Hybrid
- Contract
- Contract
- Posted
- 2 days ago
- Closes
- 14 Nov 2026
- Sector
- Mechanical Engineer
About 46% above the going rate for mechanical engineer
Reference vacancy/mechanical-design-engineer-38115
About the role
This role does require Creo experience in order to hit the ground running.
Job Title: Mechanical Design Engineer
Rate: £50.00 per hour
Location: Stevenage
Hybrid / Remote working: 3 days a week likely onsite (likely could be lower on a week by week basis; depending on work). 1 day remote. (flexible on start and finish time).
Contract: 37 Hours per week
Overtime: Hours worked over 37 hours per week will be calculated at ‘time and a quarter’
Duration: 6 Months (initially and then ongoing and long-term thereafter)
IR35 status: Inside IR35 (Umbrella)
Mechanical Design Engineer Job Description:
An opportunity to become part of Europe’s No. 1 Missile Systems Designer, as a Mechanical Design Engineer. You will work closely with other functional teams, to develop products to meet our customer’s needs. Within this role you will have the opportunity to undertake cutting-edge research of novel mechanical technologies to meet the challenges of tomorrow.
Responsibilities:
- Carry out Mechanical Design and proving activities as part of a wider team for prime and variant products, of both piece parts and assemblies.
- Support/liaise with manufacturing, resolving manufacturing problems & defects.
- Support to functional & environmental testing and trials.
- Liaise with suppliers/purchasing to resolve any technical queries that may arise.
- Planning and reporting on own day-to-day activities to meet project milestones.
- Gain clarification of and help to generate requirements, including challenging of extraneous requirements to reduce lead time, UPC and design complexity
Skillset/experience required:
- Experience using Creo 3D design tool
Knowledge of several of the following……………..
- Manufacturing processes
- Tolerance studies
- Environmental test
- Mass property calculations
- Material selection
- FMEA
- Design for Manufacture/Assembly
- Environmental Gasket Sealing
- Tooling/fixtures design
- Structural design
- Defence Standards
- Review processes
- Product Lifecycles
- Industrial validation
- An ability to work as part of a multifunctional engineering team and be able to partake in or host design reviews.
- An appreciation of other engineering areas/domains.
Reference: vacancy/mechanical-design-engineer-38115 · Posted 2 days ago · Closes 14 Nov 2026 · Listed via Certain Advantage
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