Design Concession Approver

European Foundation for Business Qualification (EFBQ); Chester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Lead Design Engineer to join their dynamic Wing Plant Engineering Team. This role offers an exceptional opportunity to enhance your technical and leadership skills in a supportive environment. You will be responsible for leading design investigations and providing technical solutions, ensuring compliance with design, airworthiness, and safety standards. The position emphasizes collaboration across teams and continuous improvement initiatives, allowing you to make a significant impact on product integrity and efficiency. If you are motivated and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience leading design investigations and formulating technical solutions.
• Ability to manage design, airworthiness, and safety requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead design investigations for manufacturing non-conformances.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure integrated design solutions.

Skills

Design Approval Signatory Authority

Technical Solution Formulation

Continuous Improvement Initiatives

Stakeholder Relationship Development

Risk Management

Job description

Within the Wing Plant Engineering Team (PET), we are looking to appoint a Lead Design Engineer who will support the Wing Component Delivery Teams (CDTs).

The PET's primary function is to provide engineering support to the Broughton Plant and its supply chain, enabling wings to be delivered to the final assembly lines. We identify improvements, undertake investigations, and provide technical solutions via structural and systems modifications for design for cost, rate, and quality improvements.

The successful applicant will be part of a fast-moving team delivering high-quality design solutions by collaborating with manufacturing engineering to meet the needs of our industrial system and maintain the highest levels of product integrity.

The Role

This role offers an excellent opportunity for a committed individual to further develop their technical and leadership skills within a positive and supportive team environment. It provides a great chance for personal growth and for building a network across the Wing Engineering community, the plant production team, and support functions. This position supports the plant engineering team and the Broughton Plant.

Tangible Deliverables

You will be responsible for leading design investigations and formulating technical solutions for manufacturing non-conformances and design investigations, ensuring all design, airworthiness, and safety requirements are met. You will liaise with other functions to ensure fully integrated design solutions where appropriate.

You must hold (or have held) design approval signatory authority, particularly for manufacturing non-conformances (T200). You will act as a focal point for leading and guiding on technical issues and governance, and support technical mentoring within the engineering team.

A high level of energy is required to drive continuous improvement initiatives to increase team efficiency through methods, processes, and other improvements, ensuring a robust lessons learned and feedback process.

Reporting on critical technical issues will be required through functional managers and directly to delivery managers to ensure effective issue management. Developing stakeholder relationships across the wider engineering network is also essential.

Competencies & Abilities

• Motivated and self-driven with the ability to work autonomously when needed, while being a strong team player.
• Reliable delivery on time, cost, and quality, embracing change and challenge appropriately.
• An anticipation mindset to identify risks and opportunities and manage them effectively.
• Ability to understand, synthesize, simplify, and communicate complex activities clearly and timely to stakeholders.
• Work in an open and trusting environment.
• Demonstrate resilience and understanding of nurturing it.
• Currently holds or has previously held Concession Design Approval (T200).