Job Description
Lead Design Engineer - Airbus (Filton)
Location: Filton (minimum 60% onsite)
Hours: 35 per week, flexible working (4.5 days, between 7am-7pm)
Pay: £37.38/hr PAYE or £50.00/hr Umbrella (£52.00/hr for Authoriser level)
Clearance: BPSS+ (completed by Airbus Security)
IR35: Inside
About the Role
Are you ready to take the lead in shaping the future of aerospace design? We're looking for two talented Lead Design Engineers to join the Airbus team in Filton. You'll play a pivotal role in delivering innovative, high-quality structural designs for major aerospace programmes, ensuring every solution meets the highest standards of airworthiness and product excellence.
What You'll Be Doing
1. Leading the structural design process, ensuring compliance with airworthiness and product requirements, and upholding Design Quality Assurance standards.
2. Defining, delivering, and enabling technical studies, trade-offs, and investigations to develop robust technical solutions using established design methods and procedures.
3. Managing and delivering change, including Mod opening, DFM release, and Stage 3 Closure of Mods-on time, to cost, and to quality.
4. Providing design leadership to both internal and external teams, championing Lean Engineering improvements such as 'Right First Time' and lead time reducti...