Senior Project Engineer

Prattwhitney; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Flexible working options

Pension plan

Job summary

Collins Aerospace in Plymouth seeks a Project Engineer to lead across product development and production programmes. You will work with discipline leads, translate customer requirements into specifications, and manage delivery while ensuring compliance and quality.

Excellent communication with customers and stakeholders is essential, with occasional travel to UK and international sites. Onsite role based at the Plymouth site offering a structured career path and competitive benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (2:1) in Engineering or related field.
• Experience in engineering and/or manufacturing organisations.
• Clear communication with customers and project stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical lead across full project lifecycle.
• Collaborate with discipline leads on multi-disciplinary projects.
• Serve as customers' technical focal point for delivery and changes.
• Ensure projects meet schedule, cost and quality targets.
• Translate requirements into technical specifications and compliance.
• Travel occasionally to UK and international customer sites.

Skills

Technical leadership

Systems engineering

Stakeholder engagement

Customer liaison

Education

2:1 Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Job description

Collins Aerospace, a Raytheon Technologies company, is a world leader in advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defence industries. With a comprehensive inertial sensing and integrated navigation technology portfolio and deep domain expertise, we deliver cutting edge systems that solve our customers' toughest stabilisation, flight control and navigation challenges and help shape the future of aviation and defence. This is an onsite role based at our Plymouth site, where we design and manufacture control, navigation, and guidance systems for both air and surface applications. Our world class products include MEMS based Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) and the TERPROM Digital Terrain Reference Navigation System. Our growth plan includes development and extension of our current technologies into state of the art military and civil aircraft applications and we’re looking for exceptional engineers to join us on that journey.

Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions - whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionised systems for specialised aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you'll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customers succeed today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow. Are you up for the challenge?

What You Will Do

As a Project Engineer, you will play a key technical leadership role across new product development and current production programmes, supporting both existing business and future growth.

• Act as a technical lead across the full project lifecycle, owning the technical vision and delivery
• Work closely with discipline leads to deliver complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects
• Serve as the customer's technical focal point, managing technical delivery, change, and communication
• Ensure projects are delivered to schedule, cost, and quality
• Lead systems engineering activities, including requirements management and compliance
• Provide technical input to planning, estimation, and project management
• Support customer presentations, technical meetings, trials, and exhibitions
• Contribute to bids and proposals, including resourcing and technical compliance
• Translate customer requirements into technical specifications, solution development, and compliance tracking
• Travel occasionally to UK and international customer sites for meetings, trials, and programme reviews

What You Will Learn

In this role, you’ll gain:

• Deep exposure to cutting edge aerospace navigation and sensor technologies
• Experience leading projects through the full product development lifecycle
• Hands‑on involvement in customer integration and aircraft systems
• Insight into international collaboration across engineering teams
• Opportunities to develop your technical leadership, stakeholder engagement, and systems engineering expertise
• Access to world class training, mentoring, and long-term career development pathways

Qualifications

Essential

• A strong technical background, with a 2:1 Bachelor's Degree (or higher) in Engineering or a closely related technical discipline such as Mathematics or Physics
• Experience working within an engineering and/or manufacturing organisation
• Ability to operate effectively in a technical environment, contributing to engineering delivery and problem‑solving
• A clear and confident communicator, able to work with customers, engineers, and project stakeholders

Desirable

• Background or experience in Systems Engineering
• Experience leading or coordinating project teams within an engineering environment
• Exposure to sensor-based technologies, electronics, or complex technical systems
• Experience working across multi-disciplinary engineering teams

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package
• Flexible working options
• Excellent 2:1 matched pension (up to 10%)
• Private health insurance and life assurance
• 25 days annual leave, plus the option to buy or sell up to 5 additional days
• Early finish on Fridays
• Structured career development, mentoring, and access to world class training
• And much more!

Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.

Note: The successful candidate must hold an active or be willing and eligible to obtain SC level security clearance. Please note that access to certain projects may be restricted based on nationality.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.