Structural Design Engineer (Lead & Senior)

Airbus S.A.S.; Penyffordd; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit sharing

Pension scheme

Share options

Car leasing scheme

Free onsite parking

Tax-free technology scheme

Shopping discounts

Flexible working

Job summary

Airbus S.A.S. is seeking a Senior/Lead Design Engineer to drive structural modifications, provide technical leadership, and ensure airworthiness integration across complex systems. You will mentor engineers, uphold design integrity, and push process improvements to enhance efficiency.

The role requires a solid background in structural design with experience in certification processes and collaboration across stakeholders. A flexible working model with hybrid arrangements is offered.

Qualifications

• Design Approval (Check) or the capability to achieve this in a short timeframe.
• Authorisation for Senior Design Engineers or capability to obtain soon.
• Strong background in structural design and airworthiness requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead Structural Modifications: deliver design solutions and investigations to improve cost, rate, and quality.
• Provide Technical Leadership and mentoring to engineering teams.
• Ensure compliance and integrity with design standards and airworthiness certification.
• Drive process improvements to enhance team capability and efficiency.
• Guide and lead Design Engineers, obtaining Design Approval (Check).
• Senior Design Engineers to hold Design Approval and Authorisation or work towards it.
• Oversee structural design leadership and solve complex structural and system modifications.
• Translate investigations into integrated technical solutions meeting safety standards.
• Communicate effectively with delivery managers to resolve issues and keep schedules.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder communication

Airworthiness knowledge

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

CAD software

System integration tools

Job description

• Lead Structural Modifications: You will deliver high-quality design solutions and technical investigations, spearheading modifications to enhance cost, rate, and quality.
• Technical Leadership and Mentoring: You will operate as a key focal point for technical issues, providing authoritative guidance and formally mentoring other engineering team members.
• Ensure Compliance and Integrity: You will uphold the highest levels of product integrity, ensuring all design standards are met and solutions are fully integrated to support airworthiness type certification.
• Process Improvement: You will identify inefficiencies and drive the implementation of improved methods and processes to enhance team capability and efficiency.
• Lead Design Engineers: Must hold industry-recognised Design Approval (Check) or the capability to achieve this within a short timeframe (Essential).
• Senior Design Engineers: Must hold industry-recognised Design Approval (Check) and Authorisation or the capability to achieve this within a short timeframe (Essential)
• Structural Design Leadership: You are adept at leading the structural design process, delivering optimised technical solutions for both structural and system modifications.
• Expert Solution Formulation: You possess a strong ability to translate design investigations into well-defined, integrated technical solutions that meet strict airworthiness and safety requirements.
• Stakeholder Communication: You excel at synthesising complex technical issues and reporting them effectively to functional and delivery managers to ensure timely problem resolution#
• Financial Reward: Competitive salary, annual profit share, contributory pension, share options, car leasing scheme, free onsite parking, tax-free technology scheme, shopping discounts and much more
• Work / Life Balance: 35 hour week, flexible working around core hours, hybrid working and flexible working, option to buy/sell holiday (AP+)
• Personal Development: Personalised development plan, Airbus Leadership University and unlimited access to 10,000+ E-learning courses, internal mobility including international opportunities
• Health & Wellbeing: Bupa health insurance (including assisted fertility treatments and gender dysphoria & reassignment support), wellbeing benefits (including 24/7 online GP and mental health support), discounted family health / dental insurance / eye tests, cycle-to-work scheme, on-site canteen and coffee shop, lunchtime yoga / meditation
• Family and Caregiving: Life assurance, enhanced pay for parental leave (23 weeks at 100% pay), adoption / shared parental / caregiving leave, purpose built maternity rooms on site.
• Inclusive Environment: Wellbeing room, Multi-faith room, Employee Representative Groups (Gender, LGBTQ+, International, Generational, Disability, Social & Cultural Diversity, Neurodiversity).

Not a 100% match? No worries! Airbus supports your personal growth with customised development solutions. HOW WE CAN SUPPORT YOU Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need and we'll always do our best to accommodate your request.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company's success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief. Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to [e-mail]. At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

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