Wing Design Engineer - Airbus Signatory

Our client has an opportunity for a Wing Design Engineer to join them on a contract basis until October 2026. You will be responsible for ensuring the structural design meets programme airworthiness and product requirements and in line with cascaded Design Quality Assurance Criteria.

Role: Wing Design Engineer

Location: Filton – 60% onsite

Hours: 35 hours per week

Clearance: BPSS required before starting

Hourly Rate: £50 per hour via Umbrella, inside IR35

• 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 Airbus polices, processes and practices.

• Airbus Delegation needed.
• Knowledge & experience for Wing Structure.
• Part of a Design team to support approval and authorisation.
• 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.