Aerospace Process Engineer – MBSE/QMS, On‑Site UK in Bristol

Line Up Aviation is a specialist aviation and aerospace recruitment company that has been operating worldwide for more than 35 years. We work with some of the industry's best-known companies who demand the highest standard of service. On behalf of our global Defence client, we are currently recruiting a Process Engineer reporting to the Head of Safety, Airworthiness and Specialty Engineering.

Position: Process Engineer – reporting to the Head of Safety, Airworthiness and Specialty Engineering.

Location: Bristol or Yeovil (on site).

Employment type: Contract (initially 6 months).

Working hours: Mon – Fri only.

Package: Competitive hourly rate inside IR35.

Security clearance: BPSS required.

Eligibility: You must hold UK working rights at the time of application. Sponsorship is not available.

Scope of Role

The Process Engineer will support our client's Engineering Management framework in providing oversight, assurance, implementation, and continual improvement of engineering process, process systems and process model governance within their Process Management systems. The role will help drive Engineering's compliance with ISO 9001, AS9100, UK Military regulatory frameworks, and internal procedures, enabling the client to execute a wide and varied work scope across multiple customer environments (Land, Sea, Air and Digital). The individual will apply Quality Management System, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) principles to enable consistent, auditable, and efficient engineering process integration and governance across the end‑to‑end Development, Design, Production, Support, and Maintenance lifecycles.

Main Duties / Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and govern engineering processes and their integration into the client's Process Model for current and future states, ensuring alignment across the engineering value streams of develop & design, produce and support.
• Partner with engineering departments to define process models, map processes to capabilities (e.g., SIPOCs), and maintain the process architecture, document trees and roadmaps.
• Support compliance and alignment with the client's Enterprise Governance and QMS/OIG standards (ISO/AS9100), support audits, gap analyses and KPIs, and drive corrective and preventive actions alignment to improve process integrations.
• Promote standardisation and continuous improvement: identify opportunities to harmonise processes and guidance across teams, investigate issues/conflicts, and provide CI oversight.
• Develop and maintain engineering process effectiveness strategy, providing guidance to departments and teams.
• Produce and maintain process communications, training, onboarding materials and competency development to operationalise process strategies across technical teams.
• Support Engineering Process Authority: support departmental focals, the Engineering Process Council, working groups, and act as interface with QA to ensure engineering alignment (occurrences, NCRs, findings, audits).
• Support oversight and governance of Technical Design Reviews (TDRs).
• Support development of strategies for design practice integration into programmes/products and ensure Design Practice developments and integrations are in line with the client's established practices.

Key Skills & Knowledge Required

• Strong process engineering and governance understanding, including developing and documenting engineering processes, applying process management governance to integrated systems, supporting audits, performing gap and root‑cause analyses within QMS CAPA processes, defining KPIs/metrics and understanding change management principles.
• Practical systems engineering lifecycle expertise across Development, Design, Production, Support and Maintenance, including scalable V‑model execution, gate review controls and engineering release.
• Knowledge and experience of PLM, ERP and MOM system integrations, and digital artefacts flow and thread development.
• Standards and regulatory knowledge: familiarity with ISO 9001 and AS9100 requirements for engineering QMS, and UK military/defence frameworks (e.g., DEF STAN, JSP) and their intersection with aerospace and defence standards.
• MBSE (preferred): Understanding of MBSE principles and modelling (e.g., SysML) to manage requirements, architecture and verification, and experience mapping process systems into MBSE architectures to assess model integrity and model‑to‑requirement traceability.

This is a UK‑based opportunity; you must already have the rights to live and work in the UK. Sponsorship is not available.