Wing Design Engineer

Line Up Aviation; Filton; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm is seeking a Wing Design Engineer with strong leadership and design management skills. This role involves ensuring structural design meets airworthiness standards and delivering efficient technical solutions. The successful candidate will have a proven track record in project delivery to time, cost, and quality with specific knowledge of design tools like CATIA V5. The position is based in Filton with a 10-month contract, requiring 60% onsite work. Competitive pay at up to £50 per hour is offered.

Qualifications

• Design Approval/Authorisation Signatory is essential.
• Strong track record of maturing new technologies.
• Able to influence decisions in complex stakeholder networks.

Responsibilities

• Ensure structural design meets airworthiness and product requirements.
• Define and deliver technical studies for solutions.
• Provide design leadership and ownership of improvements.

Skills

Leading a Design or project team

Achieving delivery to Time, Cost and Quality

Finding creative solutions to complex problems

Risk management

Knowledge of design toolsets (CATIA V5, ICC, etc.)

Tools

CATIA V5

Zamiz

Solings

Job description

On behalf of our client, we are seeking to recruit someone as a Wing Design Engineer for 10 months.

Role Information

Role: Wing Design Engineer

Pay: Up to £50 per hour via Umbrella

Contract: Monday- Friday, 35 Hours per week,10 month contract

Location: Filton - 60 % onsite

IR35 Status: Inside

Security Clearance: BPSS

Requirements

• Ensure the structural design meets programme airworthiness and product requirements and in line with cascaded Design Quality Assurance Criteria
• Define, deliver and enable technical studies, trades and investigations to ensure the delivery of technical solutions in accordance to relevant Design methods and procedures
• Support identification, management and delivery of change through Mod opening, DFM release and Stage 3 Closure of Mods on time, to cost and quality
• Provide design leadership of Internal and External designers within the team and ownership of Lean Engineering improvements, in particular 'Right First Time', and Lead Time Reduction. This will be key to demonstrating design requirements within the program constraints
• Ensure effective organization and governance of design & maturity reviews in line with polices, processes and practices

Skillset & Experience

• Leading a Design or project team
• Leading complex or multi value projects
• Achieving delivery to Time, Cost and Quality
• Finding creative solutions to complex problems
• Risk management and taking calculated risks
• Able to make or influence decisions in a complex network of stakeholders and customers enabling right first time delivery, achieving all the planned and agreed milestones
• Integrate with and influence technical experts and specialists to achieve optimum technical and business solutions
• Have a strong track record of maturing new technologies, Implementing Design to cost projects, and initiating strategic technology projects
• Knowledge and experience of design toolsets i.e. CATIA V5, ICC, Zamiz, ECM, Solings & PASS
• Design Approval/Authorisation Signatory is essential.

If you are interested in applying for this position and you meet the requirements, please send your updated CV to: Natalie Dalkin at Line Up Aviation

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