Design Concession Approver

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.

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 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.

Competencies

• 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

Guidant Global (Airbus) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.