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Wing Lead Design Engineer

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Job Description - Wing Lead Design Engineer

I am currently recruiting for a Wing Lead Design Engineer for a client based in Bristol. Please find details of the position below.

Details

  • Role: Lead Design Engineer
  • Pay: £45-50 per hour Inside IR35
  • Location: Bristol with 60% on site required
  • Clearance: BPSS
  • Length: 6 Months

Responsibilities

  • 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 Required

  • 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 possess the above skills and are looking for your next contract opportunity, please submit your profile and we will be in touch.

Please click here to find out more about our Key Information Documents. Please note that the documents provided contain generic information. If we are successful in finding you an assignment, you will receive a Key Information Document which will be specific to the vendor set-up you have chosen and your placement.

To find out more about Progressive please visit www.progressiverecruitment.com

Progressive Recruitment, a trading division of SThree Partnership LLP is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy | Registered office | 8 Bishopsgate, London, EC2N 4BQ, United Kingdom | Partnership Number | OC387148 England and Wales

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