Lead Project Engineer (Engineering Continuous Improvement)

Overview

In this role you will lead the integration of traditional engineering management with Digital Engineering to ensure MBSE models, Digital Twin data, and physical assets stay in sync as a single source of truth across the product lifecycle. You’ll govern digital engineering tools and oversee data continuity from requirements to sustainment, driving automated data integration and process improvements. On-site presence is required Mondays and Tuesdays, with the rest of the week adopting a hybrid setup. This position sits in the Ampthill team and supports cross-disciplinary collaboration to deliver complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Digital Governance: oversee tool governance in a Digital Engineering environment, ensuring rigorous data management
• Digital Thread Orchestration: maintain the Digital Thread and data continuity across requirements, design, manufacturing and sustainment
• Model-Based Change Control: manage change processes with impact analysis on MBSE models and Digital Twin simulations
• Data Integrity & Auditing: verify conformance to digital architecture and synchronize as-designed, as-built and as-maintained states
• Lifecycle Integration: automate configuration status accounting and integrate into the digital ecosystem
• Process Innovation: improve processes for Digital Twin environments and automated data integration
• Learning and applying new technologies related to Digital Thread (MBSE tools, data integration platforms)

Key requirements

• Bachelors degree in engineering or related discipline
• Proven experience as a Project Engineer in a complex engineering environment (defence preferred)
• Strong knowledge of MBSE principles, processes and standards
• Experience managing Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) or integrated digital environment
• Strong analytical skills for multi-disciplinary digital data sets
• Excellent communication and problem-solving abilities
• Team-oriented with high attention to detail and quality

• communication
• interpersonal skills
• problem-solving
• MBSE tools and methodologies
• Digital Thread implementation or management
• Digital Twin knowledge and data integration for Twin accuracy

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