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Providing simulation expertise where needed.

Commercial Aircraft Group, a company at the forefront of the aircraft industry providing flight control equipment and systems to leading commercial aircraft companies. Including design, development, and test to certification standards. The Wolverhampton site’s key focus being high lift gear such as slats and flap based driven systems. Stress Analyst and a Chartered Mechanical Engineer possessing an in-depth knowledge of Ansys. Use of NX, SolidWorks and Mathcad products and strong general IT… Show more Commercial Aircraft Group, a company at the forefront of the aircraft industry providing flight control equipment and systems to leading commercial aircraft companies. Including design, development, and test to certification standards. The Wolverhampton site’s key focus being high lift gear such as slats and flap based driven systems. Stress Analyst and a Chartered Mechanical Engineer possessing an in-depth knowledge of Ansys. Use of NX, SolidWorks and Mathcad products and strong general IT skill set and strengths in problem solving. Typical roles:• Stress Lead role for the Boeing 787-10 variant responsible for reviewing stress document submissions for the high lift aircraft gear, hand calculation and simulation reports. Technical support was provided for submission documents for the 787-9 variant with the key focus being FEA simulation of the system. • Stress analyst for Comac C919 aircraft high lift gear. Show less

AstraZeneca a world leading global pharmaceutical company with a major UK presence with over 1200 employees in Loughborough until site closure.Senior Engineer role Chartered Mechanical Engineer possessing an in-depth knowledge of Ansys and Pro Engineer products and strong general IT skills. Strengths in problem solving and innovation include intellectual property protection. A long history of managing complex engineering research projects and developing new medical products. Internationally… Show more AstraZeneca a world leading global pharmaceutical company with a major UK presence with over 1200 employees in Loughborough until site closure.Senior Engineer role Chartered Mechanical Engineer possessing an in-depth knowledge of Ansys and Pro Engineer products and strong general IT skills. Strengths in problem solving and innovation include intellectual property protection. A long history of managing complex engineering research projects and developing new medical products. Internationally published in Pharmaceutical and Engineering disciplines. Medical device technical expert for inhalation devices. Advisory role in external groups such as Industrial Advisory Group to NPL, NAFEMS UK steering group member.Key roles : Research project management, product design, technical support, Computer Aided Engineering specialist and Engineering Mentor. • Project Management typical 3 year budget of $3 million for a new pMDI metering valve.• Project management, development of computational fluid dynamics models predicting drug deposition and atomisation, finite element and dynamics analysis models for two new patient compliance devices, volumes 10’s millions.• Project Management of an external network of specialists covering, stress, dynamics, triobology of elastomers, Computational Fluid Dynamics & atomisation of drug, Physics and material experts for device projects. • Project management of long-term research UK and Sweden, Budgets £60,000 to £320,000 per annum per project.• IT/ CAE systems coordinator. Ansys and Pro Engineer, strategy development and implementation for globalisation. Implementation budget Swedish and UK region $250,000.• Technical reviewer and publishing of product simulation data, pressurised metered dose inhalers, within applications to the Federal Drug Administration (USA).• Product performance and reliability assessments covering creep and temperature dependence for 10’s millions of units manufactured pa.• Development of Intellectual property. Show less

Materials test equipment specialist, Senior Engineer developing Tensile Test and rheology test equipment from blank piece of paper to full production equipment. Typical projects.• Design and development of the RH2000 rheometer.• Design and development of high-capacity combined load, load cells.• Design and development of extensometers. • High-capacity tensile test machine grip bodies.• Automotive test bed hydraulic actuators.