Overview
As a Lead/Senior Design Engineer at Airbus Operations, you guide structural modifications and engineering investigations to improve cost, rate, and quality. You will act as a technical leader and mentor within the structural design team, ensuring airworthiness and adherence to design standards. The role combines hands-on design leadership with cross-functional collaboration to deliver integrated, compliant solutions. You join a mission-driven environment shaping sustainable aerospace technology and the safety of air travel.
Pay / Benefits
- competitive salary
- annual profit share
- contributory pension
- car leasing scheme
- on-site parking
- flexible hybrid working
Responsibilities
- Lead structural modifications and high-quality design solutions to optimize cost, rate, and quality
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineering teams
- Ensure compliance with airworthiness standards and full integration of designs
- Identify process inefficiencies and drive improvements to team capability and efficiency
Key requirements
- Industry-recognised Design Approval (Check) or the ability to obtain it quickly (Essential)
- For Senior roles: Design Approval (Check) and Authorisation or capability to obtain quickly (Essential)
- Strong ability to lead structural design processes and deliver optimized solutions
- Proven capability to translate investigations into integrated technical solutions meeting safety requirements
- Excellent stakeholder communication to report issues to delivery managers
- stakeholder communication
- mentoring/leadership
- problem solving
- structural design leadership
- airworthiness compliance
- design investigations and solution formulation
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