Principle Design Engineer
Posted: 09-12-2025
Company: Owen Daniels
Type: Permanent
Reference: 224491508
Type: Permanent
Reference: 224491508
Job Description:
Are you a Principle Design Engineer? Do you have experience working with aircraft/vehicle interior design? Are you confident leading a team of mechanical engineers providing technical direction and workload prioritization?If so a global leader in interiors is currently looking to grow their mechanical team with a Principle Design Engineer!
Principle Design Engineer
Permanent Opportunity
7:30-4 Mon-Thurs, 7:30-1:00 Fridays
1 day remote working available
Northampton
Principle Design Engineer
Responsibilities will include:
- Lead and manage a team of Mechanical Engineers, providing technical direction, coaching, workload prioritization, and ensuring high-quality engineering output
- Oversee full lifecycle product development for aerospace interior components—from trade studies, DFMEA/PFMEA execution, concept generation, detailed design, and prototyping through to testing, certification support, and production release.
- Serve as the primary engineering interface with customers, driving requirements definition, technical reviews, design trade-offs, and aftermarket support to ensure solutions meet performance, cost, manufacturability, and regulatory expectations.
- Drive disciplined engineering processes including GD&T, robust documentation within PLM systems (SmartTeam, Teamcenter), utilising CAD tools such as CATIA V5, Siemens NX, or SolidWorks for high-integrity design outputs.
- Specify and validate materials—including metals, reinforced composites, plastics, and fabrics—ensuring design compliance with aerospace standards, manufacturability constraints, and long-term product reliability.
Essential Skills and Experience:
- Proven leadership experience
- Confident in Mechanical Design having used Catia (will consider other software experienced e.g. Solidworks, NX)
- Experience working with interiors
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