Senior Project Engineer

Senior Project Engineer

Location:

Leighton Buzzard, United Kingdom

We are looking for a Senior Project Engineer to join our team in Leighton Buzzard to be responsible for the organisation and planning for Engineering deliverables covering the full lifecycle of the Proposal or Program. Our Project Engineers are responsible for delivering predictable, high-quality project outcomes through strong control of technical scope, schedule, risk, and issue resolution.

Note:

This role is based in Leighton Buzzard, UK; however, travel may be required to support the business or the customer. Currently, our standard workweek allows us the flexibility to work remotely Monday and Friday. However, as leaders who value accountability, our project engineers work on-site as required to support their team, the project or the customer.

• Lead a global team of multi-disciplined engineers to develop aircraft interior products and be totally accountable to internal and external stakeholders for the delivery on your assigned work packages.
• Define and maintain clear, structured scope aligned to project objectives – Control scope changes and prevent uncontrolled deviation, develop and maintain robust, logically linked project schedules.
• Support development plans achieving high First Pass Yield (FPY) at key gates.
• Validate sequencing of tasks dependencies, and critical path accuracy.
• Pro‑actively identify, assess, and mitigate project risks, drive risk reduction, retirement, and burndown trends.
• Protect the program by containing and resolving issues in a timely and structured manner, develop and execute recovery plans.
• Become technical interfaces for all internal and external stakeholders. Develop customer relationships based on transparency and trust.
• Author, check and approve technical documentation in accordance with delegation of authority.
• Monitor, report and act upon key performance & leading indicators to help achieve predictable outcomes.

• A self‑starter with strong customer‑focus and a mindset to take on challenges and create solutions.
• At least 5 years’ technical leadership experience, ideally in Aerospace Engineering.
• Demonstrated ability to lead a cross‑functional, global team to deliver complex product development.
• Excellent communicator with the ability to achieve the right outcome through dialogue with a range of stakeholders (local and global colleagues, executives, customers, technical and non‑technical).
• Experience with in and understanding of the aircraft interiors industry (i.e. certification, product development, customer expectations) is highly desirable.
• Literate and adaptable with a variety of project management and engineering software tools (Team centre, Primavera, MS365, CATIA V5 etc).
• Ability to demonstrate and apply fundamental project management methodologies is essential.

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Competitive salary.
• Fantastic pension scheme.
• Critical illness cover.
• Income protection.
• Private medical insurance, Employee Assistance Programme, the ability to buy holidays, a cycle to work scheme & other great employee discounts.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.