Airworthiness Engineer

Certification Technical Lead/Airworthiness Engineer

Havant, Hampshire, Hybrid Working

Great salary, BUPA, benefits and 4 day work week

Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems (RMS) provides systems engineering, software development, training solutions and complex program management for global security, civil and commercial markets.

Simply stated, our mission is to be the world’s leading global security and aerospace company.

What is the role?

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Lockheed Martin team in Havant, Hampshire as a Certification Technical Lead.

We’ll provide you with meaningful work and education opportunities that will allow you to develop your skills and enhance your career with us, but equally important you can also enjoy a strong work life balance.

To ensure this we offer a flexible work schedule and a comprehensive benefits package to enable you to live a healthy fulfilling life in and outside of work.

Our 4 Flex working fortnight is a particular favourite amongst the team, giving you every Friday off, to spend more time doing the things you enjoy.

You will work mainly within the engineering team on Airborne Mission Systems, with particular focus on DS-970 certification of airborne platforms.

Currently the role will focus on Merlin and Avenger programmes but this may change in the future.

You will primarily be home based with occasional travel to the Havant offices and our customer sites in Crawley and Yeovil.

This would really suit you if you have a background in Aerospace certification, or other highly regulated industries such as Automotive.

What will I be doing?

You will experience a wide range of engineering activities including:

• Overseeing and leading the team technically to deliver certification of Type Design Change (TDC) for air systems.
• Working to the Military Air System Certification Process (MACP), overseeing and leading the generation and delivery of:
• Application for TDC (DAT Form 30 or equivalent),
• Certification artefacts Type Certification Basis (TCB), Certification Programme (CP) and Type Certification Expositions (TCE) and iaw RA5820 and the Manual of Military Air System Certification (MMAC).
• Compliance submissions to Certification Specifications such as Def Stan 00-970 or EASA CS.
• Non-compliances (NC) assessment against certification specifications and Equivalent Level of Safety (ELoS) arguments to gain acceptance of NC
• Military Certification Review Items (MCRI).
• Develop and implementing certification strategies and plans.
• Mobilising certification teams to delivery against strategies and plans.
• Managing your time and the teams time effectively to develop effective solutions to cost and quality targets.
• Working with suppliers and customer authorities to approve and review airworthiness documents and evidence submissions.
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with clients and suppliers across all levels of the organisation both internally and with the customer.

What’s in it for you?

• To be part of something challenging that gives you a chance to make a difference.
• Working with a supportive team who wants to see you thrive and grow.
• The opportunity to learn and master new skills.
• Inspiring and mentoring others to develop the next generation of system engineers.
• generation of system engineers.

What skills will I need?

• Experience of leading certification within aerospace or a similar highly regulated industry.
• Has worked in a technical authority role or similar.
• Extensive Understanding of Test and Qualification procedures and practices, especially with regard to requirement sell off.
• Extensive understanding and experience of qualification evidence against requirements and regulations.
• Ability to direct other staff including early careers to achieve technical objectives and solutions.
• Solid understanding of requirements definition and interface documentation required to support the development and acceptance of solutions.
• Strong communication skills, and the ability to write in a clear and concise manner
• The ability to manage tasks and priorities to ensure that assigned workload is delivered when required.
• Ability to communicate with a wide range of audiences on sometimes complex issues, topics and engineering principles and practices.
• Minimum 5 years relevant industry experience.

Desired skills, qualifications and experience

• Experience as a Tech lead or similar position in Airworthiness or Certification.
• Degree in Engineering or other STEM subjects.
• Ability to analyse technical problems and provide pragmatic solutions.
• Proven ability to produce cost effective and technically compliant solutions.
• Practical experience of Model Based Systems Engineering (SysML, Rhapsody, Enterprise Architect).
• Understanding of Systems Engineering tools processes and practices. (TOGAF, UML/SysML, DOORS).

Equal Opportunity Statement

Lockheed Martin is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment.

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and reflect our values of doing what's right, respecting others and performing with excellence.

By engaging with all our employees' diverse talents and experiences every day, we can innovate different and better, creating cutting edge solutions and unparalleled customer value.

We know that diversity of thought leads to better solutions for our customers.

Our top priority is finding the best candidate for the job and if you are interested in the position, we’d love to hear how you might contribute to our mission and our team and would encourage you to apply, even if you don’t believe you meet every one of the criteria set out in our job advert.

In addition, we are committed to inclusion of all individuals and will make reasonable adjustments to our applications process.

If you require assistance or adjustments to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact [email protected] or call 023 92 458 000.