Lead Fatigue & Damage Tolerance Engineer

Overview

Job Description: Security clearance checks apply (including BPSS and export control checks, including a criminal record check).

Travel required:

occasional within UK and internationally.

Location:

Filton, Bristol (60% of your working week must be office based). Type:
Full time.

Join our Wing Analysis Engineering Team. We are a dynamic and diverse group of structural engineers, technical experts, and program managers who collaborate to advance innovative wing structures and shape the future of aerospace.

• Perform, approve, or authorise static structural deliverables, ensuring solutions meet rigorous safety and certification standards.
• Coordinate with cross-functional leadership to define project requirements, manage technical scopes, and steer engineers and suppliers.
• Influence and innovate by collaborating across teams to integrate automated workflows and optimisation tools into the development lifecycle, leading or supporting initiatives appropriate to your level of experience.
• Drive the professional growth of the team and shape the next generation of engineers by fostering technical expertise and leadership behaviours.

• Hold a degree in Engineering with a Structural Analysis background.
• Proficient in static analysis processes, methods, and toolsets (such as ISAMI, GISEH, and Finite Element Analysis).
• Strong understanding of aircraft structural layouts, loading, and the mechanics of materials.
• Industry recognised Stress Approval (Check) and Authorisation or the capability to achieve the latter within a short timeframe. Ability to collaborate and influence within a dynamic team to drive decisions.
• As a Senior Engineer, you should be able to collaborate with stakeholders and influence decisions within a complex network at a strategic level.
• Interest in developing digital solutions associated with engineering activities;
  Python proficiency is advantageous.

• Financial Reward:
  Competitive salary, annual profit share, contributory pension, share options, car leasing scheme, free onsite parking, season ticket loan, tax-free technology scheme, shopping discounts and more.
• Work / Life Balance: 35 hour week, flexible working around core hours and Friday afternoons off, hybrid working, flexible working, option to buy/sell holiday.
• Personal Development:
  Personalised development plan, Airbus Leadership University, unlimited access to 10,000+ E-learning courses, internal mobility including international opportunities.
• Health & Wellbeing:
  Bupa health insurance (including assisted fertility treatments and gender dysphoria & reassignment support), 24/7 online GP and mental health support, discounted family health/dental insurance/eye tests, cycle-to-work scheme, on-site canteen and coffee shop, lunchtime yoga/meditation.
• Family and Caregiving:
  Life assurance, enhanced pay for parental leave (23 weeks at 100% pay), adoption / shared parental / caregiving leave, purpose-built maternity rooms on site.
• Inclusive Environment:
  Wellbeing room, Multi-faith room, Employee Representative Groups (Gender, LGBTQ+, International, Generational, Disability, Social & Cultural Diversity, Neurodiversity).

Not a 100% match? Airbus supports your personal growth with customised development solutions. Many staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need and we’ll do our best to accommodate your request. Please let us know if you need us to make any adjustments for the selection process. Any information disclosed will be treated in the strictest confidence.

As a Disability Confident Employer, Airbus will offer an interview to any applicant that considers themselves to have a disability or long-term condition under the Equality Act 2010 and meets the minimum criteria of the role. To opt in, select the option during your application submission.

This job requires an awareness of potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:
Airbus Operations Limited

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