Senior Engineer (Composites)

Overview

As Senior Engineer you will design and manage engineering solutions for Airborne and clients, focusing on manufacturability, timelines and commercial outcomes. You will lead project activities, coordinate stakeholders and develop processes using CAD/CAM/FEA and other tools.

You’ll drive design for manufacturing, tooling, testing plans and production documentation to enable scalable, automated composite manufacturing. This role combines engineering, project leadership and digitalisation to advance our composites automation platform.

Join a dynamic, growth-oriented team and shape high-impact manufacturing solutions.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual leave
• Pension plan
• Private health insurance
• 13 weeks paid sickness leave
• Income protection 70% of salary

Responsibilities

• Create solid models and technical documentation using CAD
• Develop NC programmes for ply cutters and routers
• Prepare MPSs and production documents
• Lead feasibility studies and design for manufacturing activities
• Detail design, stress analysis and DFMEA/PFMEA
• Design tooling and test plans; execution of tests
• Create quality plans and inspection/test plans
• Plan and supervise process qualification; production scheduling analysis
• Generate production reports and troubleshoot production problems
• Conduct manufacturing process development and trials
• Characterise materials and plan material tests
• Apply automation and digitalisation concepts in composites
• Evaluate compatibility with existing automation for medium/high volume
• Develop commercial offers considering materials, processes, hours and margins
• Project management using plans, trackers and DFMEA/PFMEA
• Quality issue analysis with six sigma tools
• Identify opportunities and manage supplier relationships
• Identify potential IP and ensure IT security
• Complete timesheets for project tracking
• Health, safety and environmental considerations

Key requirements

• Proven ability to synthesize technical solutions and strategies
• Ability to address engineering problems under uncertainty and conflicting factors
• Ability to conceptualize alternative approaches and justify optimal solutions
• Experience sharing expertise with other engineers
• Ability to manage multiple projects under tight timelines
• Desirable: contribution to professional technical community
• Effective communication of complex information to technical and non-technical audiences
• Preparation of engineering documents and presentations
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Strategic thinking
• Effective communication
• CAD
• CAM
• NESTING

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