Technical Lead - Mechanical Design Engineering
Job Description
Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air.From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.
Present in India since 1953, Thales is headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, and has operational offices and sites spread across Bengaluru, Delhi, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune among others. Over 1800 employees are working with Thales and its joint ventures in India.Since the beginning, Thales has been playing an essential role in India's growth story by sharing its technologies and expertise in Defence, Transport, Aerospace and Digital Identity and Security markets.
Technical Lead - Mechanical Design
Thales India Engineering Competency Center is seeking a Mechanical Design Engineer to be part of its Hardware engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for the Design, CAD and associated engineering activities of various Thales products and accessories compliant to the customer requirements and applicable industry standards (MIL-810, DO-160 etc.)
Qualifications & Experience:
B.Tech in Mechanical engineering or equivalent with 8 to 12 years of relevant experience.
Experience in Machinery design, Heavy Equipment design. Experience in military domain is desirable
Competency / Skill:
- Hands on experience: Successfully executed more than one project and currently working in the relevant area.
- Basic Knowledge: Exposed to the topic and has a fair understanding of it and its applicability in design. Should have referred the data in the current project or in a project with in last 6 months.
- Good communication skill and team collaboration attitude. Enthusiastic and self-motivated to learn and share knowledge.
- Hands on experience in the following
- Machinery design / Heavy Equipment design.
- Design of mechanisms.
- Design of Sheet metal, weldments.
- Analytical design calculations for component sizing and selection.
- Materials and finish process selection: Metal's - Stainless steel, Steel, Aluminium alloys and associated finish processes Etc.
- COTS (Commercial off the shelf components) component selection: Example - Fasteners, Bearings, Roller guides, Gears, electric drives, Etc.
- Implementing DFM (Design for Manufacturing), DFA (Design for assembly)
- CAD Tool : CREO (To generate 3D CAD & 2D drawings)
- Managing Bill of Material of the sub-assemblies and assemblies.
- Tolerance stack up analysis
- Basic knowledge in the following
- GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing)
- Product life cycle management process flow
- The candidate shall own and successfully execute on time WITH MINIMUM SUPPORT, the listed (not limited to) analysis and allied activities.
- Collaborate (Local and Global) with multidisciplinary teams (Industrialization, Manufacturing, Project management, Quality, Etc.) to design and/or realize the product. Derive and manage activities estimation and schedule.
- Comply with applicable organization specific product design and development processes. Select suitable Material and finish process. Select suitable COTS (Commercial off the shelf components):
- Ensure compliance to DFM (Design for Manufacturing), DFA (Design for assembly). Generate and manage the following design data.
- 3D CAD data.
- 2D CAD manufacturing drawings for custom designed mechanical items.
- Product BOM (Bill of Material).
- Perform following mechanical analysis (not limited to) as required.
- Weight analysis
- Tolerance analysis
- Material compliance analysis (REACH / RoHS)
- Perform following engineering justification as required to verify the design.
- Structural calculations (Example: Simple beam bending, weld strength etc.)
- Collaborate with Analysis engineer for various software-based analysis (Structural / Vibration / shock etc.) of the design.
- Supply necessary design data and boundary conditions to perform analysis
- Involve in technical discussion to validate the analysis results.
- Contribute to necessary project reviews (PDR: preliminary design review, CDR: Critical design review, etc.)
- Collaborate with external partners (Component suppliers, Test laboratories, other service providers, Etc.) for successful design, testing and Manufacturing.
- Implement appropriate design data management practices.
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