UAS Technical Lead

UAS Technical Lead

Vacancy Reference: CLA- 407

Position:
Full-time

Location:

Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK

Salary: £65,000- £75,000

At Callen-Lenz, we are expanding the limits of what is possible. We specialise in crewed and uncrewed aircraft operations and technology and having recently received investment into the business we are going through a period of rapid growth and development and are looking for key roles to assist with these changes. Callen-Lenz offers innovative and customer-focused UAS solutions through our 4 key business strands: technical services, products, platforms and operational services.

We are looking for individuals to help drive forward our expansion, placing you at forefront of UAS development in the UK.

• Innovation
• Integrity
• Collaboration
• Excellence

Based in the heart of rural Wiltshire, close to the Historic city of Salisbury you will join our rapidly growing, friendly and multi-disciplined team, working on a range of diverse and interesting projects, leading the way in this exciting field and witnessing the full lifecycle of our products. The Callen-Lenz team are passionate about what we do, and we are searching for individuals to grow with us as we expand into the aerospace industry.

• 25 days annual leave per year (plus bank holidays)
• Buy/Sell holiday policy up to 5 days either way
• Pension Scheme via Royal London
• Company contributed Share Incentive Plan.
• Green Car Scheme
• Life assurance scheme (6x basic salary)
• Income protection policy (75% of basic salary)
• Private Health Insurance via Vitality
• Private Dental insurance via Bupa
• Enhanced Maternity and paternity
• 1 Professional membership reimbursed per year
• 1 paid volunteering day per year
• Access to an independent financial advisor year round
• Training & development opportunities

As a UAS Technical Lead you will report pastorally to a Team Leader or Engineering Manager and provide functional leadership to a multi‑disciplinary project team to deliver end-to‑end solutions to complex design and integration problems in line with customer requirements. You will typically be at Senior Engineer or Principal Engineer level and will take ownership of internal capability development and continuous improvement activities within the products.

• Provide technical project leadership into delivery projects.
• Accountable for technical execution and delivery.
• Ownership, creation and management of project level technical artefacts such as the Work Breakdown Structure, Engineering Management Plan, or Verification and Validation plan.
• Lead technical interfacing with customers, suppliers, and partners.
• Provide primary interface between technical engineering team and project manager for enabling successful delivery
• Collaborate with the Project Manager to identify technical risk areas, requirements, and scope of work to enable work package definition.
• Own the capture, derivation and through-life management of requirements, developing overall solutions that meet internal and external customer needs within required timescales
• Own the through-life system test approach.
• Prepare material for, and lead, internal and customer facing design reviews as required.
• Manage technical change requests and implementation of technical changes.
• Delegation of, review and approve engineering artifacts including design data and technical documentation.
• Ability to provide on-the-job mentoring of team members
• Champion improvements in our company culture in areas such as Health and Safety, Quality, Continuous Improvement
• Perform other related duties as required

• Demonstrate in daily activities a commitment to health and safety in the workplace by always ensuring tasks are performed in the safest possible manner
• Report all hazards and incidents that the individual is party to, or observes, in the correct manner.
• When required or directed, participate in any health and safety training.

Qualification:

Bachelors or Master’s degree, with Honors, in an Engineering or Science subject or relevant experience.

• Deep working knowledge of systems engineering and the end-to-end engineering lifecycle. Ability to apply…