Concession Approver
Posted Today by Morson Edge
£52 Per hour
Inside
Undetermined
Chester
Summary: The Concession Approver role offers an opportunity for personal and professional growth within a supportive team, focusing on technical and leadership development. The position involves leading design investigations and formulating solutions for manufacturing non-conformances while ensuring compliance with design, airworthiness, and safety standards. The role also includes mentoring engineering team members and driving continuous improvement initiatives. Strong stakeholder relationship management is essential for success in this position.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead design investigations and formulate technical solutions for manufacturing non-conformances.
- Liaise with other functions to ensure integrated design solutions.
- Operate as a lead design engineer with design approval signatory for manufacturing non-conformances (T200).
- Provide guidance on technical issues and governance, and support technical mentoring for team members.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance team efficiency.
- Report on critical technical issues to functional and delivery managers.
- Develop stakeholder relationships within the engineering network.
Key Skills:
- Motivated and self-driven with the ability to work autonomously and as a team player.
- Reliable delivery on time, cost, and quality while embracing change.
- Ability to identify and manage risks and opportunities.
- Strong communication skills to simplify and convey complex activities to stakeholders.
- Experience in working in an open and trusting environment.
- Resilience and the ability to nurture it in others.
- Current or past holder of Concession Design Approval (T200).
Salary (Rate): £52.00/hour
City: Chester
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Engineering
Up to £52.00 per hour Umbrella or PAYE equivalent
About the Role
The role will provide an excellent opportunity for a committed person to further develop both their technical and leadership skills in a positive and supportive team environment. You will have a great opportunity for personal growth, alongside developing a network of contacts across the Wing Engineering community, the Plant Production team and its support functions. This role provides support to the Plant Engineering team and Broughton Plant.
Tangible Deliverables
You will be responsible for leading design investigations and formulating technical solutions for Manufacturing Non-Conformances and Design Investigations ensuring that all Design, Airworthiness and safety requirements are met. Where appropriate you will also liaise with other functions to ensure a fully integrated design solution.
You will operate as a lead design engineer and must hold (or have held) design approval signatory in particular for manufacturing non-conformances (T200). You will also act as a focal point in leading and providing guidance on technical issues and governance, and will support technical mentoring for engineering team members.
A high level of energy is required to drive continuous improvement initiatives to increase team efficiency through methods, process and other improvements, where applicable ensuring a robust lessons learnt and feedback process is maintained.
Reporting will be required on critical technical issues through functional managers where applicable, and directly into delivery managers to ensure robust management of issues. Development of stakeholder relationships in the wider network to engineering is also required.
Required Competencies & Abilities
- Motivated and self-driven with the ability to work autonomously when required, whilst being a strong team player.
- Deliver reliably on time, cost and quality whilst embracing change and challenge when appropriate.
- Anticipation mindset, able to identify risks/opportunities and manage them appropriately
- Understand and synthesise multiple complex activities, simplify and communicate them clearly, on a timely basis, to all stakeholders as needed.
- Work in an open and trusting environment.
- Understand, nurture and demonstrate resilience.
- Currently holds Concession Design Approval (T200) or held it in the past