Senior Composite Materials Engineer – Flight Innovation

Prestwick Aerosystems; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Financial reward: Profit share

Contributory pension

Share options

36 hour week

Friday afternoons off

Flexible working

Job summary

Airbus Belfast Limited is hiring a Senior Composite Material Engineer to join the Central Engineering Materials & Processes team. You will drive composite material activities in a production environment and support cross-functional projects for current and future aircraft programs.

You will collaborate with Design, Manufacturing Engineering, Procurement and Quality to select materials, resolve production issues, and push cost and quality improvements across the A220 wing program.

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ Materials & Processes engineering experience in a production environment.
• Knowledge of assembly or surface related materials and technologies for development and design.
• Familiarity with materials qualifications, M&P processes, testing and failure analysis.

Responsibilities

• Support composite material activities in a production environment.
• Support production issues for composite technologies.
• Contribute to product improvement for cost or quality of composite parts.
• Collaborate with Plant Engineering and M&P community.
• Advise on material selection and queries with Design and Supply Chain.

Skills

Materials & Processes engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Root-cause analysis

Education

Engineering degree or Science degree or HNC

Job description

Airbus Belfast Limited is hiring a Senior Composite Material Engineer to join the Central Engineering Materials & Processes team. You will drive composite material activities in a production environment and support cross-functional projects for current and future aircraft programs.

You will collaborate with Design, Manufacturing Engineering, Procurement and Quality to select materials, resolve production issues, and push cost and quality improvements across the A220 wing program.