Company Name: Teledyne Defence & Space (a division of Teledyne Limited)

Website: http://www.teledynedefence.co.uk/

Job Title: Contract Mechanical & FEA Engineer

Dates: February 2017 - December 2019

Location: Shipley, West Yorkshire, U.K.

“Teledyne Defence & Space (TDS) has been supplying the electronic defence market for over 35 years and has an established reputation as a world leader in the supply and development of microwave products. Formerly Filtronic Defence, TDS has a pro-active policy of sharing technology advances to exploit the development of highly complex and integrated end-to-end RF & Microwave solutions for the defence and security markets.”

Source: http://www.teledynedefence.co.uk/

Working in a small team of highly specialised RF, controls and mechanical, R&D engineers developing a flexible repeater for a constellation of 2000 LEO satellites for the Airbus OneWeb joint venture.

My responsibilities included; support of R&D design activities to create robust engineering concepts and solutions suitable for LEO environment using high volume manufacturing techniques. Led analytical analysis of the flexible channeliser using traditional and computer numerical methods (FEA).