Mechanical Valve Design and Development Engineer required to join growing monopropellants team working on Fluidic Controls on the design, development and industrialisation fluidic control solutions for space propulsion.

My client supplies chemical propulsion systems (rocket engines and thrusters) to spacecraft manufacturers.

Requirements

Space industry experience highly desirable but not essential.

2:1 or higher Degree in Mechanical or Aeronautical Engineering.

CAD experience generating 3D models ideally detail drafting for manufacture with PTC Creo.

Structural analysis using FE software, static and dynamic analysis justifying designs for launch vibration and fluid pressure tolerance.

Exposure to the design, manufacture and test of aerospace or space products.

Test rig design, instrumentation and data acquisition for fluid systems ideally with LabView experience.

Valve, mechanism or propulsion designs.

Clean room practices and equipment.

Responsibilities

Design of fluid system components such as electro mechanical valves and mechanisms.

Participate in customer programmes as the development engineer.

Generate technical documentation in line with company and customer Quality standards.

Create design and compliance documents using CAD, finite element, data acquisition packages, Pro Engineer, Ansys, LabView