LifeTime Support (LTS) Lead Engineer

Eaton; Wimborne Minster; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton's Mission Systems Division (MSD) is seeking a Lead Engineer to plan, lead and coordinate a team of engineers delivering strategic AAR and actuation systems. You will manage technical investigations, maintenance updates, and publications, while ensuring project objectives and compliance with processes.

Ideal candidates have a degree in engineering with 5+ years in engineering, and proven leadership in manufacturing or aerospace environments.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree or equivalent with at least 5 years experience in Engineering field.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team to deliver engineering projects on time, within quality and cost targets.
• Coordinate tasks and escalate issues through the governance structure.
• Act as point of escalation for questions or decisions.
• Ensure technical, schedule and cost adherence for allocated projects.
• Build and maintain customer relationships and drive continuous improvement.
• Integrate a wider multi-function engineering team to achieve program goals.

Skills

Lead engineers

Presentation skills

Mechanical systems

Electro-mechanical

Aerospace

Systems engineering

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

Job description

Requisition ID75663-Posted10/21/2026

Eaton - Mission Systems Division (MSD) is the world's leading provider of hose and drogue Air-to-Air Refuelling (AAR) and Actuation systems. Eaton work directly with the aircraft manufacturers and end-users to develop systems that achieve their operations in challenging environments, safely and successfully.

The Lead Engineer is a key position in the team. They are responsible for planning, leading and coordinating the activities of a team of engineers to deliver engineering projects to the expected quality, time, cost and customer commitments.

Being the technical lead and responsible engineer for delivering strategic support services to our customers. This involves many and varied responsibilities including leading the team to provide failure investigations and fracas management, repairs capability, technical publications for the users, maintenance updates and technical assessments for continued use. All of these need to be clearly communicated to the customer and completed within project objectives and in compliance with the required processes and practices.

• The technical lead / responsible engineer for strategic support services to multiple customers and Air Forces across several different AAR systems.
• Responsible for ensuring strategic support services for the customers are managed and delivered: key areas include failure investigation and Fracas management, REACh facilitation, Obsolescence support, Maintenance updates, Repair capabilities, bid work, Technical publications management.
• Co-ordinates and communicates tasking with the team and flows up escalations through the business tier board system.
• Act as a point of escalation for questions / decisions / problems that cannot be resolved.
• Accountable for technical, schedule and cost adherence for allocated projects
• Integration of a wider multi-function engineering team to achieve program goals
• Build and maintain customer relationships
• Driving continuous improvement
• Assigned to the engineering lead role as part of the Lifetime Support IPT.
• Other duties assigned as necessary

Qualifications:

• Engineering degree or equivalent with at least 5 years experience in Engineering field.

Skills:

• Experience with leading engineers on technical projects within a manufacturing company, preferably in the defence and / or commercial aerospace markets
• Experience in presenting in varied situations to mixed audiences, across all levels of seniority
• Experience in one or more of the following fields - mechanical, electro-mechanical, fluid, mechanisms, structures or systems.

POSITION CRITERIA

• You are motived and proactive, driving solutions to completion.
• You will have good appreciation and understanding of the engineering product life cycle.
• You have a good understanding of Systems Engineering Management.
• You are a natural problem solver, with a solutions focused mindset
• You are willing and able to tackle unfamiliar tasks, using a practical approach to achieve positive results.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS:

• The ability to lead and co-ordinate investigations and projects, involving cross-functional colleagues and communicate results internally & externally.
• The ability to work within a large organisation in a matrix management structure
• Decision making / problem solving – able to make decisions in complex and ambiguous situations and with incomplete data
• Ability to build excellent relationships with the customer, the team and wider Eaton colleagues
• Organisation and time management skills to allow coverage of multiple work strands and reactive responses to emerging issues.
• A strong knowledge of airworthiness and safety regulations, as well as aerospace industry standards to steer appropriate considerations in all tasks.
• Ability to provide role modeling to the team in line with the Business core values and behaviours
• Demonstrated engineering expertise with product and technical understanding
• Strong competence in engineering processes, practices and measures of performance
• Excellent organisational, communication, and leadership skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Work in a matrix organisation within a global virtual engineering organization
• Engage with divisional resources
• Develop productive working relationships with functions and organisations outside of Engineering
• Develop working relationships within the Aerospace engineering community
• Develop working relationships with customers
• Domestic and international travel may be required 10%

The successful applicant will be in contact with US ITAR controlled technology, goods, and information. As a condition of employment, employees with access to US ITAR controlled technology and goods may be required to undergo an additional screening process as part of the recruitment process.
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