Air Systems Safety & Certification Engineer

Expleo Group; Preston; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Collaborative environment

ExpleoAcademy

Competitive company benefits

Disability Confident Employer

Job summary

Expleo Group is seeking Air Systems Safety & Certification Engineers in the United Kingdom to support airworthy and certifiable combat air capabilities. You will integrate safety engineering, airworthiness assurance, and certification activities across the development lifecycle for advanced combat aircraft.

The role involves certification planning, evidence generation, and interfacing with customers and authorities, with opportunities to influence future air systems architectures.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or related STEM discipline.
• Applications are also welcomed from individuals with significant demonstrable experience who don’t hold formal qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Support certification planning activities.
• Develop and maintain certification evidence.
• Support airworthiness and safety assurance activities.
• Conduct compliance assessments.
• Interface with customers and certification authorities.
• Support governance, audit and assurance reviews.
• Produce technical reports and certification artefacts.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Airworthiness principles

Safety engineering

Assurance argument development

Certification evidence generation

Compliance demonstration

Regulatory engagement

Technical stakeholder management

Aerospace assurance processes

Education

Degree in Software Engineering

Degree in Computer Science

Degree in Electronic Engineering

Significant demonstrable experience without formal qualification

Job description

Expleo is a trusted partner for engineering, quality services, and digital transformation. We collaborate with world-leading aerospace manufacturers, delivering cutting-edge solutions in structural analysis, finite element modelling, numerical simulation, and certification support. At Expleo, we foster innovation, technical excellence, and professional growth, empowering our teams to shape the future of aerospace engineering.

We are seeking Air Systems Safety & Certification Engineers to support the delivery of airworthy and certifiable combat air capability for the next generation of combat aircraft. This role focuses on the integration of safety engineering, airworthiness assurance and certification activities, ensuring that complex aerospace systems meet both regulatory and customer requirements throughout the development lifecycle.

This role offers an opportunity to influence future combat air capability through the development, integration and optimisation of advanced sensing architectures, supporting delivery across the full engineering lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Support certification planning activities.
• Develop and maintain certification evidence.
• Support airworthiness and safety assurance activities.
• Conduct compliance assessments.
• Interface with customers and certification authorities.
• Support governance, audit and assurance reviews.
• Produce technical reports and certification artefacts.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or related STEM discipline.
• Applications are also welcomed from individuals with significant demonstrable experience who don’t hold formal qualifications.

Essential Skills

• Airworthiness principles and processes.
• Safety engineering methodologies.
• Assurance argument development.
• Certification evidence generation.
• Compliance demonstration activities.
• Regulatory engagement.
• Technical stakeholder management.
• Aerospace assurance processes.

Desired Skills

• ARP4754A.
• ARP4761.
• DO-178C.
• DO-254.
• Military Aviation Authority (MAA) frameworks.
• Def Stan environments.
• MBSE-enabled assurance.
• Digital Thread concepts.
• Model-Based Safety Analysis.

Experience

• Experience supporting aerospace safety, certification or airworthiness programme Combat air systems.
• Mission systems.
• Avionics programmes.
• Safety-critical systems.

What Do I Need Before I Apply

• Right to work in the UK.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain UK Security Clearance (SC).
• Ability to satisfy customer security and export control requirements.
• Willingness to travel occasionally to customer and partner locations.

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ourpeers through good times and challenges
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• ExpleoAcademy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
  • Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
  • Communicating and promoting vacancies
  • Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
  • Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
  • Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age".

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive