Lead Design Engineer

The role will involve being responsible for leading design investigations and formulating technical solutions for a range of tasks. As a part of this role you will be the lead and mentor to the engineering team, assisting the development of team members. You will also ensure that design standards and requirements are met and operate as a design authorisation signatory. You will have experience with design approval from the aerospace industry and will have held design check approval.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, check/approve technical solutions and compliance documentation for work-packages to ensure they are compliant with all relevant customer, regulatory, and airworthiness requirements, within agreed program, schedule, and manufacturing constraints.
• Identify, analyse and resolve technical problems and apply/integrate solutions.
• Develop, execute, and verify methods plans, toolsets and approaches that are appropriate and compliant to achieve the design and programme objectives.
• Analyse customer tasking documents and define the associated technical solutions as input for bids and proposals within assigned programs/projects.
• Identify and assess technical risk and propose mitigations relevant to the work-package within assigned programmes/projects.
• Create and check/approve design definitions of a work-package, including integration, interfaces, dimensions, materials, parts, manufacturing process requirements, assemblies, and tolerances which are compliant to all design requirements and objectives.
• Generate or review, and sign as appropriate the assigned project deliverables, documents, and reports according to the project signature authorizations.
• Mentor and develop engineers within assigned programmes.
• Support with the creation and delivery of training material and initiatives relevant to a work-package/programme.
• Support and participate in technical and customer reviews, including formal gate reviews and in the creation and preparation of technical data and presentations of a work-package.
• Perform all activities at a level of minimal supervision and guide other engineers within the work-package as required.
• Generate and check test specifications/plans and/or alternate means of compliance (analysis/similarity) as required to demonstrate design solution complies with certification requirements.

Qualifications

• Engineering Degree or Apprenticeship to HNC Level.

Essential Skills

• CAD: Catia V5 DPDS / Primes / PDM Link / PASS / VPM Windchill Teamcenter MS Office.
• Held design approval before example A1020.
• Leadership and mentoring.
• Good communication skills.

Experience

• Experience working with stakeholders, Chief engineers and Local Programmes teams.
• Knowledge of Aerospace or previous experience.

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges.
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects.
• ExpleoAcademy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses.
• Competitive company benefits.
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo.

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:

• Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible.
• Communicating and promoting vacancies.
• Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job.
• Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required.
• Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive.