Hyper Mesh Engineer/£480/Porton Down/6 Months

Hyper Mesh Engineer/£480/Porton Down/6 months
SC Clearance Required

The Project Engineer provides support or leadership in the development of the technical solution to meet the customer capability needs. They ensure that the solution is successfully integrated into the current enterprise whilst managing and minimising negative impacts. They seek to apply engineering best practice and ensure that all stakeholders are effectively managed throughout the engineering activities. They involve specialists as required and actively consider performance, safety and quality implications before making decisions.

- Ensure that performance, time, cost, risk and safety factors are taken into consideration when making technical decisions.
- Discuss and agree system design solutions with Suppliers and ensure that the inherent technical risks associated with them are understood and managed.
- Ensure the solution integrates into defence and manage the system boundaries and interfaces by identifying, engaging and managing specialists as required.
- Follow all applicable engineering standards, legisaltion, policy and guidance, ensuring that where there is deviation, the impact understood, planned and managed.
- Specify the technical and integration aspects in contracts
- Specify the technical and integration aspects in the Through Life Management Plan (TLMP) ensuring that all Defence Lines of Development (DLoDs) are addressed.
- Work with the Project Manager and other engineers to identify the technical stakeholders and ensure that they are identified, engaged and managed throughout the engineering activities.

KEY TASKS AND DELIVERABLES

- Using Finite Element Analysis techniques deliver timely S&T advice in the realm of physical protection and other dynamic events
- Support the SD team in producing and delivery of complex meshes
- Support other team members in mesh generation and numerical simulation
- Provide adhoc advice and technical support to projects across the group

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

- At least 3 years experience in producing complex meshes for finite element modelling
- Experience of Hypermesh and numerical simulation using LS-Dyna
- Understand the dynamic response of materials at high strain rates
- Engineering or Physics degree.

The Physical Protection Group within Platform Systems Division carry out research and development into current and future protection systems for a number of platforms across the Land, Sea and Air domains

The Structural Dynamics Team, which is part of the Physical Protection Group (PPG), requires a proficient Hypermesh user to generate complex meshes and run them withiin explicit finite element analysis. The overall aim of the team is to support MOD and wider Government in their understanding of blast and fragmentation effects on a variety of platforms and environments. The day to day work will be carried out within an office environment with a number of other staff and will be directed by the Capability & Technical Lead and the Team Leader. A variety of projects will require support with some classed as Urgent Operational Requirements or project support tasks for DE&S and government departments.