Wing Lead Design
Apply- Job Location: Filton, England
- Type: Contract
- Posted: 09/04/2025
Overview
A leading aerospace organisation in Filton, UK is looking for a Wing Lead Design Engineer to take
ownership of key design activities across major wing programmes.
This is a contract position with a hybrid working model.
Your tasks
-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
Qualifications
-Leading a Design or project team
-Leading complex or multi value projects
-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.
Capital International Staffing Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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