Senior Programme Engineering Lead – Aerospace

Profils; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Early finish on Fridays

Profit share bonus and pay review

25 days' holiday + bank holidays (buy)

Up to 8% employer matched pension

Health cash plan

Training and development

Onsite parking and restaurant

Cyclist storage and showers

Family-friendly workplace

Job summary

Safran Landing Systems in Gloucester is recruiting a Programme Engineering Lead to provide technical leadership across a defined programme, ensuring safe, compliant and effective products and services. You will align customer needs with engineering capability and governance.

You will drive design, development and in-service support, manage budgets and schedules, and lead multi-disciplinary teams and suppliers to meet programme objectives while maintaining airworthiness and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Act as the programme's technical authority, providing direction throughout the programme lifecycle.
• Coordinate engineering capability to meet customer and programme commitments.
• Lead technical relationships with customers and airworthiness authorities.
• Manage engineering budgets, schedules, resources and priorities with Programme Management and functional leaders.
• Coordinate engineering activity across functions and suppliers to achieve programme objectives.
• Lead the design, development, industrialisation and qualification of landing gear structures and systems.
• Identify and manage technical risks, balancing safety, quality, cost, performance and schedule.
• Ensure engineering decisions, product changes and technical actions maintain airworthiness, compliance and configuration control.
• Lead responses to production, in-service and repair issues while driving product and cost improvements.
• Lead programme engineering teams, providing clear direction and supporting performance, development and collaboration.

Job description

Safran Landing Systems in Gloucester is recruiting a Programme Engineering Lead to provide technical leadership across a defined programme, ensuring safe, compliant and effective products and services. You will align customer needs with engineering capability and governance.

You will drive design, development and in-service support, manage budgets and schedules, and lead multi-disciplinary teams and suppliers to meet programme objectives while maintaining airworthiness and regulatory compliance.