Collins Aerospace, a Raytheon Technologies company, is a world leader in advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defence industries. With a comprehensive inertial sensing and integrated navigation technology portfolio and deep domain expertise, we deliver cutting-edge systems that solve our customers’ toughest stabilisation, flight control and navigation challenges and help shape the future of aviation and defence.
This is an onsite role based at our Plymouth site, where we design and manufacture control, navigation, and guidance systems for both air and surface applications. Our world-class products include MEMS-based Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) and the TERPROM® Digital Terrain Reference Navigation System.
Our growth plan includes development and extension of our current technologies into state of the art military and civil aircraft applications and we’re looking for exceptional engineers to join us on that journey.
What You Will Do
As a Project Engineer, you will play a key technical leadership role across new product development and current production programmes, supporting both existing business and future growth.
You will:
- Act as a technical lead across the full project lifecycle, owning the technical vision and delivery
- Work closely with discipline leads to deliver complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects
- Serve as the customer’s technical focal point, managing technical delivery, change, and communication
- Ensure projects are delivered to schedule, cost, and quality
- Lead systems engineering activities, including requirements management and compliance
- Provide technical input to planning, estimation, and project management
- Support customer presentations, technical meetings, trials, and exhibitions
- Contribute to bids and proposals, including resourcing and technical compliance
- Translate customer requirements into technical specifications, solution development, and compliance tracking
- Travel occasionally to UK and international customer sites for meetings, trials, and programme reviews
What You Will Learn
In this role, you’ll gain:
- Deep exposure to cutting edge aerospace navigation and sensor technologies
- Experience leading projects through the full product development lifecycle
- Hands-on involvement in customer integration and aircraft systems
- Insight into international collaboration across engineering teams
- Opportunities to develop your technical leadership, stakeholder engagement, and systems engineering expertise
- Access to world-class training, mentoring, and long-term career development pathways
Qualifications We Prefer
- A strong technical background, with a 2:1 Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in Engineering or a closely related technical discipline such as Mathematics or Physics
- Experience working within an engineering and/or manufacturing organisation
- Ability to operate effectively in a technical environment, contributing to engineering delivery and problem-solving
- A clear and confident communicator, able to work with customers, engineers, and project stakeholders
- Background or experience in Systems Engineering
- Experience leading or coordinating project teams within an engineering environment
- Exposure to sensor-based technologies, electronics, or complex technical systems
- Experience working across multi-disciplinary engineering teams
What We Offer
- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package
- Flexible working options
- Excellent 2:1 matched pension (up to 10%)
- Private health insurance and life assurance
- 25 days annual leave, plus the option to buy or sell up to 5 additional days
- Early finish on Fridays
- Structured career development, mentoring, and access to world-class training
- And much more!
Onsite:
Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.
Note:
The successful candidate must hold an active or be willing and eligible to obtain SC level security clearance. Please note that access to certain projects may be restricted based on nationality.
RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
Senior Project Engineer in Plymouth employer: Collins Aerospace
Collins Aerospace is an exceptional employer, offering Operations Product Managers the chance to work on groundbreaking innovations in air travel right from our Kilkeel facility. With a strong commitment to employee growth, we provide extensive professional development opportunities, a generous benefits package including 25 days of annual leave, and a supportive work culture that values collaboration across diverse teams. Join us to be part of a dynamic environment where your contributions directly impact the future of aviation.
