Design Engineer

Design Engineer

The job holder is responsible for conducting design investigations and formulating technical solutions for a range of tasks.

• Modifications to the Type Design
• Investigating design queries, and managing manufacturing non-conformance, ensuring that all Design, Airworthiness and safety requirements are met
• Where appropriate liaising with other functions to ensure a fully integrated design solution.
• Act as the link between Engineering and Manufacturing, ensuring co-design solutions which are suitable for the industrial system whilst maintaining an engineering and most important customer perspective
• Strong support is required to drive on-going continuous improvement initiatives to increase team efficiency through methods, process and other capability improvements, where applicable ensuring a robust lesson learnt and feedback process is maintained.
• Reporting will be required on critical technical issues through functional management.
• Provide on-site reactive & proactive 'lineside' build support and act as the focal point for Engineering topics within the Plant, including root cause analysis investigations into all abnormalities arising from design queries.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Innovative mindset, able to think freely with a degree of curiosity to explore new or alternative ideas and approaches.
• Work in an open and trusting environment.
• Engineering Degree or equivalent.
• Ability to use CATIA V5 proficiently.
• Industry recognised design signatory delegation (T200, Design Approval, Design Authorisation) desirable.

Guidant Global (BH4SF) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.