Senior Mechanical Engineer

5 days ago

Council Of The City Of Ryde, Australia Macquarie University Full time
About the Role

We are seeking an exceptional Senior Mechanical Engineer to join our team at Macquarie University. As a key member of our Mechanical Engineering Group, you will play a lead role in developing and delivering precision opto-mechanical elements of significant scientific instruments for use on international astronomy facilities.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead the opto-mechanical engineering design and delivery of projects, from inception and design through fabrication, testing, assembly, commissioning and handover.
  • Be responsible for ensuring the thorough documentation and detailing of all opto-mechanical project elements, including design, fabrication artifacts and plans, test, assembly, quality and project plans for components, sub-assemblies and final deliverables.
  • Work closely with relevant Project Managers to ensure the delivery of project artifacts on time, on budget and to agreed specifications.
  • Provide mentoring, advice, and guidance to other engineers in the team, and work collaboratively with other AAO teams, and international consortium partners, to resolve engineering and technical challenges.
  • Develop, analyze, and manage specific concepts, systems and project subsystems and ensure delivery to agreed project timelines.
About You

You will have completed a Master's or Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or in a closely related discipline. You will have deep and broad experience as a specialist technical Mechanical Engineer with excellent skills in opto-mechanical modeling, analysis and CAD design as well as mechanical drawing and the full production lifecycle from manufacture, assembly integration and test through to commissioning and client handover.

You will have a passion in analysis for precision mechanical engineering and an enthusiasm for ensuring high quality product and design documentation. You will be experienced in opto-mechanics for scientific or technical instrumentation or very closely related fields. Experience working on telescopes, in vacuum and cryogenic precision instrumentation, FEA, thermal and vibration analysis and management and working knowledge of Zemax optical analysis all highly valued.

You are an excellent communicator with a proactive nature, flexible and you enjoy working individually or working as part of a larger team.

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