// Role Summary
Join QinetiQ as a Senior Flight Systems Engineer, playing a crucial role in evaluating and certifying cutting-edge defence technology. You will provide expert technical advice on air platforms, ensuring safety and effectiveness from concept to delivery.
// Key Responsibilities
- Lead evaluation, test, and trial activities for various air platforms (Transport, Combat, Helicopter, Unmanned).
- Provide specialist scientific/technical advice on Air platform Certification, Qualification, Performance, Operability, and Safety.
- Conduct hazard-based evaluation and testing of Mechanical and Integrated Electrical Power Systems.
- Assess newly introduced aircraft and deliver technical hazard and risk-based reporting.
- Requires significant aerospace engineering experience and knowledge of electrical power systems.
- Must be eligible for SC clearance.
// Role Specification
About the Role
Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow, we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations, our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Senior Flight Systems Engineer at our RAF Waddington site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.
As a Senior Flight Systems Engineer, you’ll be responsible for the efficient, safe, and effective conduct of specific evaluation, test, and trial activities. This will typically encompass Air platform Certification, Qualification, Performance, Operability, and Safety advice within the role domains. Day-to-day, you’ll provide specialist scientific or technical advice and consultation. Tasks encompass the project lifecycle from technical strategy through to delivery, as part of multidisciplinary teams, requiring solution definition effort and will be delivered in accordance with the associate Project Delivery Plan.
Key Responsibilities
- Evaluations conducted on Transport, Combat, Helicopter, and Unmanned Air platforms.
- Ensuring equipment and systems are safe for flight and fit for purpose.
- Conducting hazard-based Evaluation & Test alongside independent Certification advice of Mechanical and Integrated Electrical Power Systems.
- Undertaking a range of evaluations encompassing single equipment or role-related changes to a platform.
- Assessing newly introduced aircraft and delivering technical hazard and risk-based reporting.
Essential Experience
- Significant on-the-job experience working in the Aerospace Engineering domain.
- Skills, knowledge, and experience of Aerospace Mechanical and Integrated Electrical Power Systems.
- Experience working for or with DE&S Platform Delivery Teams.
- Experience in Electrical Power generation and Distribution.
- Experience in Electrical Wiring Interconnection.
- Propulsion (including integration and engine life management) is desirable.
Qualifications
- Suitably qualified Aerospace or Mechanical Engineer [ONC, HNC or HND], nationally recognised [EngTech / IEng] or working towards that accreditation.
We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education. Provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn, then we would like to hear from you.
Working Environment
This role is 37 hours per week based at our RAF Waddington site with a minimum average site attendance of three days per week. QinetiQ operates state-of-the-art facilities across the UK that focus on defence, security, and technology innovation. These facilities enable QinetiQ to conduct a wide range of research, testing, and development activities that support both military and civilian applications, helping to advance technology and support national security.
Please note that all applicants for this role must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.
Why Join QinetiQ?
As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.
As a QinetiQ employee, you’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines, and experiences enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies, constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued, and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture: www.qinetiq.com/en/careers/life-at-qinetiq
Benefits
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
- Generous holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days.
- Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance, and Dental Insurance.
- Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets, and much more.
- We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
- Volunteering Opportunities - helping charities and the local community.