Job Title: Principal Mechanical Design EngineerLocation: Huddersfield 4 days per week (4 day week available)Role Type: PermanentSalary: 65,000 - 75,000 + benefits Our client, an established engineering consultancy, require an experienced Principal Mechanical Design Engineer to join their multi-disciplined team working complex aerospace and defence systems. Candidates would need to hold British nationality and have lived and worked in the UK for 5+ years and be eligible for SC security clearance. What the role of the Principal Mechanical Design Engineer entails:Provide leadership and line management to the team, coordinating and overseeing their workloads, providing support to ensure that the team delivers, monitoring any issues, and ensuring timescales, KPIs and deadlines are met to meet the requirements of the customer.Develop the team by focusing on individual performance and support requirements to achieve high standards.Lead non-conformance support and improvements.Contribute to the creation and implementation of best practice engineering vision, strategy, policies, processes and procedures to aid and improve operational performance.Ability to capture and specify the design requirements General and Task Management.Lead on complex major projects requiring forefront-of-the-field, innovative, original solutions, provide technical expertise to the team.You will participate in internal and external design reviews and you are responsible for the design acceptance by the ..... full job details .....