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Our team of experts are at the heart of our success, which is why we are dedicated to fostering a safe working environment and a positive culture where every staff member feels valued and respected.\nWe solve our customers' problems, providing engineering solutions to safety and mission critical challenges in the air and on the ground. Our solutions can be found in the latest military aircraft and vehicles, in civil aircraft, and in unmanned vehicles.\nWe help to ensure our customers get to where they need to be safely, achieve their objectives and keep on going back.\nFlexible Working\nWherever possible, we will consider a variety of working options to suit your lifestyle, whether that be hybrid home/office working, flexible working and part or full time employment. It's the 'innovating' and 'empowering' values that we ASPIRE to be. We welcome the challenge to work in new ways and have trust in you when getting the job done because we recognise, our business is our people.\nJob Description\nEaton MSD Cheltenham are looking for a Mechanical Engineer. The Engineering function manages a portfolio of specialist capabilities, generating highly differentiated solutions and products by applying electronic, mechanical, and software technologies in demanding and critical environments to meet customer needs.An entry level Engineer, recently qualified, with limited or no industry experience who is expected to work with supervision and mentoring. With training, they will progress their capability and knowledge with the aim to increase their level of competence.\nKey Responsibilities:\nAble to prepare technical documents and design and develop product data to their functional domain level with the appropriate level of oversight. Assisting delivery of the design solutions to meet project schedule & budget requirements.\nUnderstand requirements and apply them appropriately under supervision of more senior engineers.\nWorks with more experienced engineers to provide a level of engineering support to manufacturing and supply chain, at the same time developing DFM / DFT understandings.\nCapable of providing engineering estimates for their individual contributions to a project.\nGood communication skills. Capable of presenting ideas and proposals to peers and line managers, under supervision of more senior engineers.\nAbility to liaise support functions (Commercial, Finance, Supply chain etc)\nCapable of authoring documents within PLM tool and releasing via ECR process.\nUnderstands the need for configuration and change management under supervision.\nUnderstands the need for security, commercial export licences and ITAR requirements with guidance.\nDesigns and details mechanical assemblies under supervision and has an awareness of designing for manufacture and production processes.\nCapable of reading and laying out drawings to British and International Standards as necessary under guidance from for senior engineers and the companies own Draughting Standard Manual.\nBasic awareness of electrical wiring, electronic assembly handling, and software and systems domain functions.\nPerform basic FEA analysis under supervision.\nAwareness of designing for manufacture and production processes.\nHas a basic understanding of project and engineering lifecycles using APQP/PPAP methodologies in line with AS9145.\nHas a basic understanding of the need for environmental requirements.\nGood application of Microsoft packages and relevant software for the role\nQualifications:\nRelevant qualifications to an appropriate level, typically a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience.\nBenefits:\nEvery employee is critical to our success and as such we offer a range of flexible employee benefits along with career development opportunities.\nFlexible working within core working hours \n25 days holiday (185hrs) with the option to buy/sell 5 days (37hrs) plus bank holidays\n4 times annual salary in life assurance\nFlexible benefits package\nFunded health benefits\nPension Scheme - up to 8% employer contributions\nSupportive and friendly working environment with regular team events\nYou couldn't be joining the team and Eaton MSD Cheltenham at a more exciting time. Therefore, if this sounds of interest, please follow the application process.\nNationality Requirements\nCandidates must be able to work in the UK without restrictions in accordance with UK National Law and be prepared to successfully undertake an appropriate level of UK National Security Vetting according to UK Government National Security Vetting criteria.\nDiverse & Inclusive Employer\nUltra PCS is an equal opportunities employer that values diversity, inclusion, equity and equality. Underpinned by our values, behaviours, and policies, we want you to feel empowered to be your best and authentic self.\nWe promote a workplace that welcomes people from all backgrounds and cultures; believing that this will increase our diversity of thinking, and ultimately ensure we continue delivering on our commitments to our customers.\nWe do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status and welcome applications from all candidates.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5383,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Flexible schedule"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Electrical & Electronic Engineering","Defense Manufacturing","Data Entry & Processing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-30T03:44:53Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"GB","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker)","filings_12m":null,"filings_prev_12m":null,"green_card_filings_12m":null,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":"Skilled Worker","cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-03T21:09:13+00:00","sources":["UK Home Office: register of licensed sponsors (workers)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":19,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.514,"p_room":0.36,"age_days":47,"expected_fill_days":29,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:tail","crowd:junior"],"computed_at":"2026-10-04T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ultra-pcs-mechanical-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ultra-pcs-mechanical-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-05T02:26:01Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3305,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1695,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-06T00:00:00Z"}}}