Job title: Senior Continued Airworthiness Engineer

Location: Prestwick - We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements.

Salary: £33,000 - £40,500 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Delivering Accident and Defect Investigations in an efficient and timely manner engaging with customers, authorities and BAE Systems personnel (pan-functional) ensuring the CAA Type Certificate obligations continue to be met through the products life
• Reporting to the airworthiness and investigating authorities of progress on our investigations and creation of reports to support internal management reviews
• Co-ordinating the Continued Airworthiness Review meetings and provide an independent safety assessment in support of the investigation
• Providing support to the Product Safety Review Process in order to gain assurance on how effectively Product Safety is being managed across the Regional Aircraft Programme.
• Ensuring the relevant process and procedures remain compliant with Airworthiness regulations but also that they help support efficiency of the management of investigations
• Being the focal for accident and defect investigations with the authorities on behalf of the Chief Airworthiness Engineer
• Ensuring all continued airworthiness records and data are maintained in accordance with our corporate and regulatory requirements

Your skills and experiences:

Essential

• Degree or equivalent experience in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) related discipline - We will consider candidates with other qualifications combined with relevant aerospace engineering experience
• You will have experience of Aerospace Engineering
• You will have experience and familiarity with one or more of the following:

• Continued Airworthiness process within a Quality Management System
• The principals of a Safety Management System,
• Awareness of the regulatory framework that guides the organisation in determining product safety related issues through to their resolution
• Role of the Civil Airworthiness regulator (UK CAA, EASA, FAA) and Investigating authorities (UK AAIB, NTSB etc.)
• Team working and the ability to self-motivate yourself in ensuring tasks are completed to schedule and performed to the required professional standard

Desirable

• Aircraft Maintenance industry experience as an alternative

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Continued Airworthiness Team:

An engineer in this role is responsible for delivering the Continued Airworthiness activities in a timely, consistent, and professional manner. The role facilitates a broad view of the engineering product and service lifecycles, combined with the opportunity to develop in or become a specialist in a highly sought-after engineering field of expertise.

You will obtain a good understanding of platform products along with the regulatory and certification environment in which these platforms operate. You will gain exposure to a large number of internal and external stakeholders, as well as a chance to work alongside subject matter experts across the Technical Support and Aircraft Design Teams.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.”

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.