Design Engineer

It’s time to be bold.

We are looking for innovators and creators with the drive to take us into a future led by robotics and AI. We need bold teammates with the fortitude and determination to help us to help our Armed Forces.

Being bold is in our DNA; it has led us to award-winning innovation, globally recognised project delivery and continued growth.

Careers at Pearson Engineering are tailored to each person, focused on helping you to reach your goals in pursuit of engineering excellence and impact around the world.

We expect our engineers to be team players and collaborators. You will interact with teams across the business from Engineering to Marketing and from international business development to project delivery.

Join us for a career that will shape you, and the future of the battlefield.

• Job Purpose

  Reporting to our Head of R&D, the primary role is to leverage their technical expertise and experience to contribute to the development of products, technology, capability and reliability across PEL’s range of products, whilst ensuring that best practice and the Company’s defined engineering processes are followed.

• Key Responsibilities
  • Working within a multi-discipline engineering team to meet the project requirements.
  • Developing designs from provided concepts through to manufacturing detail, including manufacturing/assembly drawings, specifications of proprietary components, supporting calculations and reports.
  • Maintaining a knowledge of current technical trends and innovation to assist in the development of current and future products.
  • Hosting and participating in design reviews providing technical input throughput the development process.
  • Supporting verification of fellow engineers’ designs.
  • Developing the testing requirements for both prototype and product manufacture.
  • Supporting build, commissioning, and trials of new products.
  • Analysing problems and coming up with ideas/designs to solve them.
  • Working within the budget to deliver safe, effective products, on-time and to specification.
  • Supporting delivery of customer training.
  • Working cross functionally (Commercial, Sales, Projects teams) within the business to improve efficiency and deliver effective products.
  • Coaching team members to improve capabilities and develop their engineering knowledge/expertise.
  • Communicating professionally with fellow
• Skills / Experience
  • A minimum of a 2:1 bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent
  • Chartered Engineer or working towards chartership with the IMechE (or another engineering institution).
  • Working knowledge of hydraulic and control systems with significant experience working in a multi-disciplined engineering team.
  • Experience of working on new product development is desirable.
  • Proven experience leading a design team is advantageous.
  • Proven record of delivering technically challenging projects.
  • Able to think laterally when problem solving.
  • Ability to investigate and interpret data, issues, and situations, to make sound decisions in high-stress situations.
  • Expert user in modern engineering design tools (2D + 3D CAD, Analysis, etc)
  • Acts with honesty/integrity to build trust, respect, and commitment in the workplace.
  • Self-motivating, proactive and results driven approach.
  • Demonstrates strong interpersonal awareness and understands and takes into account the thoughts, feelings, and emotions of others.
  • Staff development and career progression is crucial to our business, and we are therefore seeking a highly motivated engineer that can help others to develop and achieve their potential. You will therefore have skills in (or an interest in undertaking) the leadership and development/mentoring of staff and to help develop others by sharing your knowledge and experience.
  • Communicates effectively, both verbally and in writing.
  • Ability to work to deadlines whilst maintaining high quality.
  • Excellent knowledge of MS office applications including Excel and Word.
• Personal attributes and other requirements
  • As a defence contractor, we have a number of security obligations placed upon the company, which means that all our staff must be able to successfully achieve the relevant security clearances.
  • You will be expected to support in-house training programmes, as required.
• Working Environment
  • Mainly office based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK,  with visits to external customers (both UK and overseas) from time-to-time.
  • Working conditions whilst on customer sites may include working outside of normal business hours and being required to work in inclement/uncomfortable field conditions.