Senior Materials & Manufacturing Engineer

Location:

• Filton, Bristol – Hybrid working, 3 days per week on site


• Type: Permanent Salary: £80\-95k DOE


• Active UK Security Clearance (SC) essential. Sole UK nationals only.

Consortium X is recruiting a Senior Materials and Manufacturing Engineer with a specialist in ferrous metals to support a strategic UK defence programme. The role provides senior technical input across materials manufacturing standards, production assurance and experimental test planning, working alongside UK and international engineering partners on a multi\-year capability programme.

This is a senior, high\-visibility role suited to a metallurgist or manufacturing engineer with deep ferrous metals credentials and hands\-on understanding of heavy plate production methods. Candidates from heavy industry backgrounds (steelmaking, structural fabrication, pressure vessel manufacture, shipbuilding, civil nuclear) are strongly encouraged; defence sector experience is helpful but not essential.

What You'll Be Doing

• Providing senior materials and manufacturing engineering input across the programme, with a focus on ferrous metals.


• Advising on production methods for heavy plate, including ingot and continuous casting (concast) processes.


• Supporting auditing activity and assurance against materials specifications and standards.


• Reviewing and contributing to experimental test plans, including production, delivery and post\-test assessment.


• Engaging with multidisciplinary stakeholders across UK and international partners on a tri\-lateral programme.


• Operating within a senior engineering function with direct visibility to programme leadership.

• Senior\-level materials or manufacturing engineering experience with a specialism in ferrous metals.


• Demonstrable understanding of heavy plate production methods. Industry background is open, but ingot and continuous casting (concast) experience is highly desirable.


• Experience of auditing processes and assurance against materials specifications and standards.


• Experience in the delivery, production and/or review of experimental test plans.


• Active UK Security Clearance (SC).


• Sole UK national status.


• Willingness to attend a Bristol\-based delivery site three days per week.


• Flexibility to work occasional out\-of\-hours periods to support international time zones.

• Civil nuclear, marine, structural or pressure vessel manufacturing background.


• Chartered Engineer (CEng) status with IOM3, IMechE or equivalent professional institution.


• Previous embedded experience within a UK defence delivery hub.


• Experience contributing to long\-running international engineering programmes.

• Senior role on a strategically significant UK defence capability programme with sustained multi\-year runway.


• Hybrid working from a Bristol\-based delivery hub.


• Exposure to international engineering collaboration at programme level.


• Competitive salary and benefits package.


• Ongoing professional development support.

Consortium X is a Welsh\-headquartered specialist engineering and technical consultancy delivering critical capability to UK defence, security and national infrastructure programmes. We place high\-calibre engineers into roles that matter, working alongside major defence organisations, prime contractors and industry partners.

Pay: £80,000\.00\-£95,000\.00 per year

Benefits:

• Free parking


• On\-site parking

• SC Clearance (required)

• United Kingdom (required)

• Bristol BS34 8JH (required)

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