Mechanical Engineer

Location: Bishops Cleeve, Gloucestershire

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Ontic, a leading licensor and manufacturer of complex engineering parts for the global aerospace and defence industries, are now recruiting for a Mechanical Engineer to join our Engineering team, where you'll support us in ensuring the ongoing integrity, performance and compliance of our products throughout their lifecycle. This role will be based at our Bishops Cleeve site.

Ontic is more than just a business, we're a community of innovators who pride ourselves on fostering a culture where talent thrives, ideas flourish, and careers are built. We're committed to excellence, driving us to continuously improve and adapt, ensuring that we remain at the forefront of our industry.

The Role:

As a Mechanical Engineer at Ontic, you'll provide engineering support across a diverse portfolio of aerospace products, supporting them throughout their lifecycle from New Product Introduction (NPI) through to in-service support and eventual retirement.

Working closely with teams across the business, including Operations, Quality and Supply Chain, you'll help solve technical challenges and maintain product design integrity. Your work could include supporting engineering changes and redesign activities, investigating technical issues, evaluating alternative materials and manufacturing solutions, completing root cause investigations and helping to resolve obsolescence challenges.

You'll also have the opportunity to review technical drawings and data, carry out engineering calculations and produce technical documentation, making this a varied role where you can continue to develop your engineering experience.

About you:

At Ontic, our culture is integral to making sure we enjoy our work and deliver for our customers. While we look for the right skillset, we're also looking for someone who will thrive within our recognition and empowerment culture.

To be successful in this role, you'll ideally bring:

• A degree or equivalent experience in Mechanical, Aerospace or a related engineering discipline.
• Experience within a design, manufacturing, technical support or product engineering environment; aerospace or another regulated industry would be advantageous.
• A good understanding of mechanical engineering principles, materials and manufacturing processes, with the ability to interpret technical drawings and understand design intent.
• Knowledge or experience of engineering calculations, GD&T, tolerance analysis and engineering change or product improvement activities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including experience with root cause analysis.
• Experience with CAD and/or PLM systems, alongside good communication, organisation and teamwork skills. SolidWorks and Windchill experience would be advantageous.

You don't need to have experience in every area; if you have a solid mechanical engineering foundation and relevant transferable experience, we'd be interested in hearing from you.

Benefits

At Ontic we care about your financial, physical, and mental wellness so we offer a range of benefits to support this, we care about what matters to you and have a valued culture of recognition and empowerment, accompanied by benefits that support work/life balance.

Our benefits package highlights include:

• Up to 29 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• 10 hours paid volunteering time
• Annual goal share bonus scheme for all employees
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Discounts and offers from a range of retailers

Best place to work

We are more than the sum of our parts. And we’ve been recognised internally and externally for being so:

• We were ranked #9 in Best Companies’ Q3 leaderboard for Best Manufacturing Company based on our employee feedback
• 72.5% of employees who took part in our 2023 employee satisfaction survey said they are proud to work at Ontic

No day is the same at Ontic; we have doubled in size over the last couple of years and are still in rapid growth. We attribute our success to empowering colleagues to create the opportunity, fostering an environment of autonomy where we ask for forgiveness, not permission.

Our values

Our values are intrinsic to everything we do:

• We share a common sense - we’re a global family of specialists with a shared passion for precision.
• We have the freedom to choose - we’re challengers and innovators with the freedom to think differently and challenge the status quo.
• We create the opportunity - we’re change-makers with a clear direction and can-do spirit.

We are a fast-paced business with ambitious growth plans; so if you are dedicated, enthusiastic and always seeking ways to improve, you'll enjoy a career with us!