Programme Engineering Lead

Programme Engineering Lead

Permanent

Full-time

Location:

Gloucester

Safran Landing Systems are a global leader in aircraft landing and braking systems, from commercial and business travel to military and defence fleets.

Our expertise cover the entire life cycle of our products from end-to-end;
Design, Engineering & Manufacturing, through to Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO).

Looking after the people who make Safran great is our priority. We offer a range of flexible benefits designed to support you—both in and out of work, including:

• Early finish on Fridays
• Competitive salary, annual profit share bonus and pay review
• 25 days' holiday + bank holidays (option to buy/sell)
• Up to 8% employer matched pension scheme and life assurance
• Health cash plan, cycle and tech purchase schemes
• Professional development, ongoing training, mentoring
• Onsite amenities: parking, restaurant, bicycle storage, showers
• Family-friendly and accessible workplace policies

Safran – Here, we craft excellence together.

At Safran, excellence is a journey – and we'd love you to be a part of it. As a trusted global leader in aerospace, defence, and space, we are proud to be a company where diversity, innovation, and opportunity come together to shape a sustainable future where we can all succeed together through a shared vision.

The Programme Engineering Lead provides technical leadership throughout the development and in-service life of an assigned programme. Acting as the programme's principal technical authority, you will bring together customer needs, engineering expertise and wider business capability to deliver safe, compliant and effective products and services.

• Act as the programme's technical authority, providing direction throughout the programme lifecycle.
• Coordinate engineering capability to meet customer and programme commitments.
• Lead technical relationships with customers and airworthiness authorities.
• Manage engineering budgets, schedules, resources and priorities with Programme Management and functional leaders.
• Coordinate engineering activity across functions and suppliers to achieve programme objectives.
• Lead the design, development, industrialisation and qualification of landing gear structures and systems.
• Identify and manage technical risks, balancing safety, quality, cost, performance and schedule.
• Ensure engineering decisions, product changes and technical actions maintain airworthiness, compliance and configuration control.
• Lead responses to production, in-service and repair issues while driving product and cost improvements.
• Lead programme engineering teams, providing clear direction and supporting performance, development and collaboration.

• A global presence:
  Be part of a global aerospace, defence & space business with over 100,000 Colleagues, across 300 sites in 30 countries.
• Inclusive & empowering environment:
  We celebrate our differences and believe they make us stronger. We know that a fulfilling work environment is a key driver for innovative ideas and team success.
• Innovation at the core:
  Join our mission to decarbonise aerospace and make the world a safer place. Your ambitions can take us further.
• Mobility & training opportunities:
  We can support your ambitions with training, development, a personalised career plan and mobility opportunities. If you have big dreams, we'll support you to make them a reality.
• A culture of excellence:
  Join a team that values collaboration, integrity, and continuous improvement. Whatever your background, together we aim for excellence.

• Evidence of leading technically complex work and taking accountability for significant engineering decisions.
• The ability to understand complex systems, assess available evidence and identify practical, safe and commercially balanced solutions.
• Experience bringing together people and expertise across different functions, organisations or professional disciplines.
• A strong understanding of engineering design, development, industrialisation, qualification or in-service product support.
• Knowledge of mechanical, hydraulic or closely related systems, gained within aerospace or another highly regulated, safety-critical environment.
• An understanding of how technical requirements are managed at product, system or customer level.
• The ability to identify, communicate and manage technical risks, dependencies and opportunities.
• Experience balancing…