Senior Opto Mechanical Engineer
SSTL - Surrey Satellite Technology
Guildford, United Kingdom
The opto-mechanical design team seeks an enthusiastic and committed Engineer to support the design, analysis, test and assembly of optical payloads.
Engineers at SSTL have involvement on a mission right from concept through to launch, commissioning and operational life; a true cradle to grave experience and will give you the chance to see your work in Space in a rapid timescale! This key role will often sit within the core team of a satellite mission interacting with other technical leads across multiple disciplines to generate the technical solutions for innovative projects.
Key Tasks
Mechanical Engineering Tasks:
- Working within the Opto-Mechanical design team and with optical, electronic and Systems Engineers to develop working designs for optical systems.
- Opto-mechanical system design from initial concept to detailed final design using 3D modelling tools.
- Complete manufacturing drawings to enable the designs to be manufactured
- Support the integration of the mechanical components in the clean rooms, support optical and environmental testing.
- Maintain design logs and produce review material.
Analysis Tasks:
- Undertake thermal, static and dynamic structural analysis of opto-mechanical components and assemblies
- Analyse optical element surface deflections and provide feedback to optical design engineers.
General Tasks:
- Management of Work Packages
- Plan test campaigns, conduct/manage tests, analyse and present results
- Detailed project planning
- Support manufacturing activities liaising with suppliers
- Peer review of other team members work
Previous Experience
- Demonstrate at least 10 years’ experience on the design, build and test of opto-mechanical systems, preferably as applied to space optical payloads. Experience in other relevant areas of precision engineering may be considered.
- Relevant experience in some or all of the following areas is essential:
- Mounting optical components, lenses, mirrors, prisms, filters, detectors etc, kinematic mounting principles
- Materials and manufacturing processes
- Precision engineering in harsh environments
- Mechanical design using 3D CAD
- Integration and test
- FE analysis
- Report writing
- Costing and subcontracting
- Customer liaison
- Operation in a quality assured environment
- Experience of mechanical testing
- Delivery of work packages
Qualifications Knowledge & Skills
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar. Excellent analytical skills
- Competent user of FEA package such as ANSYS Workbench or similar
- Familiarity with Zernike polynomials applied to Opto-mechanical design using Sigfit or similar software
- Competent use of CAD (SolidWorks or Similar)
- Knowledge of drawing practice to BS8888
- A good understanding of the principles and practices of FEA
- Confidence to solve stress, kinematics, vibration and thermal analysis problems from first principles and the ability to grasp new technical concepts quickly.
- Proven effective communication with project managers and customers
- Flexible; able to work on a variety of projects
- Good management, people and presentation skills
- Good team working skills and communication skills
- Ability to plan and manage own work responsible for budgets and delivery of work meeting project deadlines
- Good knowledge of MS Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Microsoft Project
- Able to demonstrate company mindsets and behaviours; Be accountable, Drive & delivery, Communicate effectively, Self-manage effectively, Work as one team
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