Package: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role ID: SF18730

Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Senior Additive Manufacturing Engineer at our Farnborough site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.

The Role

As a Senior Additive Manufacturing Engineer, you will lead high-impact projects, driving the integration of additive manufacturing into advanced materials and devices. Your work will shape solutions that directly support our customers in defence, aerospace and beyond.

Day-to-day, you’ll provide technical leadership, manage project delivery, engage with customers, and mentor junior engineers – helping to grow our additive manufacturing capability.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading technical programmes in additive manufacturing projects
• Engaging with customers to understand requirements and deliver solutions
• Providing technical leadership and mentoring to junior engineers
• Leading the qualification and certification of AM parts
• Producing proposals, reports and technical documentation to a high standard
• Supporting business development through bids, proposals and portfolio management

Essential experience of the Senior Additive Manufacturing Engineer:

• Extensive experience in additive manufacturing, particularly with metal-based technologies
• Excellent understanding of materials science and its application to AM
• Proven ability to lead projects, manage budgets and deliver outcomes to time and quality
• Experience of mechanical testing and validation methods (e.g. tensile, hardness)
• Expert knowledge of Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) and CAD/CAM
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including customer engagement

Essential qualifications for the Senior Additive Manufacturing Engineer:

• A first degree in Science or Engineering OR equivalent experience (8+ years)
• A PhD in a relevant field is desirable but not essential

We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

This role is 37 hours per week based at Farnborough. Travel to other QinetiQ and customer sites will be expected.

Farnborough
At our Farnborough site exciting work takes place at our state-of-the-art facility, with high-energy laser technologies, our 5m pressurised wind tunnel which has a simulation capability that is unique in the UK and our large research and development projects is a real hub of creativity, research and innovation. Join our talented teams of Engineers, IT & Cyber Specialists, Project Managers, Group Functions Teams and many more to provide future defences in the UK.

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