Process Engineer - Defence 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.

To be successful in your application you will need to hold UK working rights at the time of application; sponsorship is not available.

Location: Bristol or Yeovil, Onsite

Employment Type: Contract initially 6 months

Working time: Mon - Friday only

Package: Competitive hourly Rate Inside IR35

Security: You must be able to obtain a BPSS clearance.

Scope of Role

The Process Engineer will support our clients 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 Quality Management systems and the applicable platform UK Military regulatory frameworks, and internal Procedures and Processes which allows our client to execute a wide and varied work scope across multiple different 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 knowledge 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 clients 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 our clients 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 developments of strategies for design practice integration into programmes/products and ensure Design Practice developments and integrations are in line with our clients 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 and 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, 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; to be successful in your application you must already have the rights to live and work in the UK, sponsorship is not available.