Design Concession Approver

Airbus; Wrexham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Lead Design Engineer for its Wing Plant Engineering Team. This role offers a unique opportunity to enhance your technical and leadership skills in a supportive environment. As a lead engineer, you'll be responsible for driving design investigations and formulating technical solutions to ensure compliance with design and safety requirements. You'll collaborate closely with manufacturing teams, fostering stakeholder relationships and promoting continuous improvement initiatives. Join a dynamic team where your contributions will have a significant impact on delivering high-quality design solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience in leading design investigations and formulating technical solutions.
• Must hold or have held design approval signatory for manufacturing non-conformances.

Responsibilities

• Lead design investigations ensuring compliance with safety and airworthiness.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance team efficiency.

Skills

Design Engineering

Technical Solutions

Leadership Skills

Continuous Improvement

Stakeholder Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Chartered Engineer Status

Job description

Within the Wing Plant Engineering Team (PET) we are looking to appoint a Lead Design Engineer who will be supporting 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 & Systems modifications for Design For Cost, Rate and Quality improvements.

The successful applicant will be part of a fast moving team who deliver high quality Design solutions by working with Manufacturing Engineering to meet the needs of our Industrial System and maintain the highest levels of product integrity.

The Role

The role will provide an excellent opportunity for a committed person to further develop both their technical and leadership skills in a positive and supportive team environment. You will have a great opportunity for personal growth, alongside developing a network of contacts across the Wing Engineering community, the Plant Production team and its support functions. This role provides support to the Plant Engineering team and Broughton Plant.

Tangible Deliverables

You will be responsible for leading design investigations and formulating technical solutions for

Manufacturing Non-Conformances and Design Investigations ensuring that all Design, Airworthiness and safety requirements are met. Where appropriate you will also liaise with other functions to ensure a fully integrated design solution.

You will operate as a lead design engineer and must hold (or have held) design approval signatory in particular for manufacturing non-conformances (T200). You will also act as a focal point in leading and providing guidance on technical issues and governance, and will support technical mentoring for engineering team members.

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

Reporting will be required on critical technical issues through functional managers where applicable, and directly into delivery managers to ensure robust management of issues. Development of stakeholder relationships in the wider network to engineering is also required.

Competencies & Abilities

• Motivated and self-driven with the ability to work autonomously when required, whilst being a strong team player.
• Deliver reliably on time, cost and quality whilst embracing change and challenge when apprpiate
• Anticipation mindset, able to identify risks/opportunities and manage them appropriately
• Understand and synthesise multiple complex activities, simplify and communicate them clearly, on a timely basis, to all stakeholders as needed.
• Work in an open and trusting environment
• Understand, nurture and demonstrate resilience
• Currently holds Concession Design Approval (T200) or held it in the past