Details:
- Salary: £46,000 - 55,000 - Annum
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Annum
- Location: Prestwick South Ayrshire
- Date: 1 week ago
Description:
Job Title: Senior Initial Airworthiness Engineer- Delivery
Salary: £46,000- £54,700 per annum dependent upon experience
Location: Prestwick
We currently have a vacancy to join one of the world’s leading, global defence, security and aerospace companies as a Senior Initial Airworthiness Engineer- Delivery. The role will be based in Prestwick but offers the opportunity for hybrid working and flexible working hours. You will need to be on site 2- 3 days per week.
They work at the cutting edge of technology, creating more than 100 new inventions every year for customers in over 100 countries.
The Initial Airworthiness Delivery Team covers current and future aircraft development activities assuring the type airworthiness of the product and its release into service across all Customers.
Main Responsibilities:
* Independent airworthiness assurance activity of design certification (qualification and safety) evidence in support of airworthiness certification for Development, Production and Export clearance programmes
* Airworthiness focal point for agreeing flight limitations with System Design Responsibility teams, Flight Operations and the external customers
* Establishing and producing Flight Certification (Military Permit to Fly) for Development and Production Aircraft
* Establishing and producing Flight Certification (Release to Service) for Export Customers
* Independent airworthiness assurance activity for emergent flight safety issues affecting Development aircraft, resulting in the issue of Flight Safety Procedures (Additional Flight Limitations/Flight Safety Messages) to Partner Companies and their operators
* Supporting continuous development of the company and flight certification and design certification processes
* Supporting and representing Airworthiness at Typhoon/Tornado/Hawk/FCAS project meetings, including support to external customer meetings
* Establishing and delivering the engineering activities using systems integration, systems engineering techniques
* Sustaining the initial integrity of Air products through production challenge and review of design, certification and assurance evidence (including product data requirements) in line with market legislation and regulatory obligations
* Validation and challenge of the initial evidence through professional judgement and constructive feedback, performance of audit and assurance activities, including involvement in design and phase review assessments (as appropriate)
* Recovery of the integrity of Air products through investigation, root cause analysis, technical instruction (using technical writing skills) and advising of potential design change
* Exploitation of learning across Air and other business Units, Customers and Suppliers using appropriate alerting, lessons learnt and promotional processes
Benefits:
* Enhanced Pension scheme- up to 14% combined
* Flexible working pattern including working from home/ flexible start and finish times
* 25 holiday days plus bank holidays- 26 days after 5 years’ service/ 27 days after 10 years’ service
* Shared Incentive Plan
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Cycle to Work Scheme
* Life Assurance (you and your spouse/ partner)- 6 x salary
* Ill Health Income Protection/ Private Medical Insurance- 50% of salary00
About You:
* HND/HNC/Degree or equivalent in a STEM subject or equivalent relevant experience
* Aircraft Avionic and Mechanical systems design and Aerodynamic disciplines understanding
* Design configuration control processes experience
* Design certification (qualification and safety) and Airworthiness processes
* Analytical methods to support establishing integrated aircraft level flight limitations
You must be eligible to apply for SC clearance and, therefore, must hold a British passport and have lived and worked in the UK for the past 5 years
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