The Role
You'll provide technical leadership while remaining hands-on, ensuring structural integrity and performance from initial concept through to manufacture, verification and in-service support.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the design and development of aerospace structures, including airframes, wings, tailplanes and mechanical assemblies.
- Delivering structural analysis, substantiation, load assessments and engineering change evaluations.
- Applying expertise in composite materials, lightweight structures and manufacturing processes.
- Ensuring structural integrity, fatigue and damage tolerance requirements are met.
- Supporting structural testing, verification and engineering compliance.
- Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to resolve complex engineering challenges.
- Leading technical reviews and mentoring engineers across the team.
About You
- Degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline.
- Proven structural design and analysis experience within aerospace or another highly regulated industry.
- Strong knowledge of composite materials, lightweight structures and manufacturing methods.
- Experience with structural integrity, fatigue, damage tolerance and load assessments.
- Familiarity with structural analysis software and delivering projects through to verification and release.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical decisions.
What's on Offer?
- Competitive salary, dependent on experience.
- 10% employer pension contribution.
- 25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 28 days after three years.
- Hybrid working, typically three days per week in the office
- Company performance-related bonus and employee share schemes.
- Green car/EV scheme, Cycle to Work scheme and other employee benefits.
Rate:
£65,000/year
Location:
Alton
IR35 Status:
Not specified
Remote Status:
Hybrid
Industry:
Engineering
Seniority Level:
Senior