Through Life Support (TLS) Engineer - Contractor Inside IR35 6-12Months

Safran Engineering Services; Pitstone; On-site; GBP 83,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

SAFRAN Engineering Services in the UK is seeking a contractor to join our Pitstone team for an initial 6-month assignment, onsite at the customer site and inside IR35. The role may transition to fixed-term or permanent employment.

You will act as the focal point for engineering investigations to support on-time delivery and respond to technical queries, ensuring high-quality engineering output and effective communication with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Mechanical, Automotive or Aeronautical Engineering degree or equivalent qualification.
• Must have recent rotating machinery experience.
• Must have a mechanical design background/understanding.

Responsibilities

• Be the focal for engineering to operations and product support to maintain status and priority information so stakeholders have a clear vision of activities.
• Ensure engineering investigation action plans are well structured, managed and substantiated for quick program decisions.
• Be accountable for the technical quality of work delivered by themselves and others to support their tasks.
• Represent the engineering function at daily production escalation stand-up meetings to provide proactive support and feedback.
• Build and maintain good working relationships between stakeholders and Engineering for effective communication.
• Maintain alignment with Configuration Management and participate in change management board reviews for in-service modifications.
• Provide input to budget forecasting activities as needed.
• Lead projects to improve reliability and FTPR where Pareto data indicates.
• Support SQA and SRPM in supplier investigations for design issues.
• Ensure Local Bond MRB is supported and QNs actioned in a timely manner.
• Lead and complete PRs/ CRS and permits in a timely manner.

Skills

Rotating machinery experience

Mechanical design background

Education

Mechanical, Automotive or Aeronautical Engineering degree

Job description

In order to develop and expand the capabilities of SAFRAN Engineering Services in the UK, we are looking for some contractor support to join our growing team at Pitstone. The role is initially for 6m, inside IR35 and based full-time onsite at our customer site in Pitstone. The role may then become fixed term or permanently employed.

You will be the focal point for any technical Engineering investigation support requirements to support on time delivery of product / customer technical queries

Key Responsibilities & Duties

• To be the focal for engineering to operations and product support within SEP to maintain status and priority information so that stakeholders have a clear vision of engineering activities relevant to them
• To make sure engineering investigation action plans are well structured, managed and substantiated to enable clear and quick program decisions to be made to avoid line stops
• Accountable for the technical quality of the work delivered by themselves and other less senior or external engineers assigned to them to support their work
• Will represent the engineering function at daily production escalation stand-up meetings (module QRQC) to provide proactive engineering support and engineering action feedback to minimise line stops
• Build & maintain good working relationship between all key stakeholders and Engineering function to allow effective and efficient communication
• To maintain close alignment with the Configuration Management team and participate in the required change management board reviews to make sure in-service product modifications are properly addressed and controlled
• Provide engineering input to budget forecasting activities as needed to support accurate budget forecasting
• Depending of the paretos, run/lead projects to improve reliability and FTPR
• Support SQA and SRPM in supplier investigation for design issue
• Ensure the Local Bond MRB is supported and QNs actioned in timely manner
• Lead and complete PRs/ CRS and Permits in a timely manner

Requirements

• A Mechanical, Automotive or Aeronautical Engineering degree or equivalent qualification
• Must have recent rotating machinery experience
• Must have a mechanical design background/understanding