Arctic Research and Development - Junior Mechanical Engineer
Requirements
• Essential • A degree in mechanical engineering (BEng or above), a completed engineering degree apprenticeship, or equivalent engineering training. • Hands-on experience building, assembling or fabricating mechanical assemblies in a workshop or production setting. • Ability to understand how forces and loads act on a design and carry out engineering hand calculations. • Ability to produce engineering drawings and 3D models in CAD. • Willingness to make practical build and technician work a core part of your role, alongside design work. • Comfortable owning tasks on a project with guidance from senior engineers, and raising problems early when a build or test doesn't go to plan. • Desirable • Experience planning or running physical tests on mechanical hardware and writing up the results. • Experience building products in small batches or repeat runs, rather than one-off prototypes. • As our business scales into the defense and security sectors, the responsibilities of this role are expected to evolve to include projects requiring UK Security Check (SC) clearance. • UK Security Check (SC) clearance • While an active clearance is not required to apply or start in this role, candidates must be willing and eligible to undergo UK Government security vetting in the future should project requirements dictate it. • eligible to undergo UK Government security vetting • To meet the standard eligibility criteria for UK standard SC vetting, you must typically have resided in the UK for the past 5 continuous years, hold a valid passport, and be capable of passing comprehensive background, financial, and criminal record checks. • past 5 continuous years
Responsibilities
• Build and assemble product units through our first multi-unit production run, taking on hands-on workshop tasks to get units completed to standard and on schedule. • Run test phases alongside each build and record the results, so issues are found and fixed before units reach customers. • Turn what you learn on the workshop floor into design improvements, working with our Senior Mechanical Engineer on updates to parts and assemblies. • Produce engineering drawings and CAD models, and carry out the calculations on loads and forces that support design decisions. • Move on to additional products once builds of our current product are established, applying the same build, test and improvement cycle. • While an active clearance is not required to apply or start in this role, candidates must be willing and eligible to undergo UK Government security vetting in the future should project requirements dictate it. • To meet the standard eligibility criteria for UK standard SC vetting, you must typically have resided in the UK for the past 5 continuous years, hold a valid passport, and be capable of passing comprehensive background, financial, and criminal record checks.
Benefits
• The mission - The Arctic is the fastest-changing region on Earth. You'll build the intelligence layer that helps understand and steward it — an early-warning system for the planet's coldest edge. • The mission • Early stage, real influence - ARD is at an exciting early stage. You'll join while our products, team and culture are still taking shape, and your ideas will directly influence where we go next. • Early stage, real influence • Ownership and accountability - We give people real responsibility from day one. You'll own your work end to end, be trusted to make decisions, and be accountable for delivering results that ship and get used. • Ownership and accountability • A small but growing team - You'll work closely with experienced colleagues across science, software and hardware, with no layers in between. As we grow, you'll help build the team and the ways of working that come next. • A small but growing team • Private Health Insurance from Day 1 • Dental & Vision • Equity - meaningful options as an early employee at an early-stage company • Real field exposure - travel to Arctic sites and Outposts when needed • Mission-driven culture - focus on impact, not hours logged • ARD is an equal opportunities employer. We hire on merit, based on skills, experience and potential, and welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We know great candidates sometimes hold back unless they tick every box, so if this role excites you but your experience doesn’t match every point, we’d still love to hear from you, especially if you bring a background or perspective that is under-represented in science and engineering. If you need any reasonable adjustments during the application or interview process, just let us know at [email protected].
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