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Engineering Team Lead - Aerospace

Engineering Team Leader - Aerospace - Bristol

The role of an Engineering Team Leader is to lead a multi-functional team in order to deliver engineering data to agreed time
scales, cost and quality within the scope of the fully integrated A350 wing.

Significant amounts of work on A350 are placed
off-site within Risk Sharing Partners and Engineering Offload Suppliers and the candidate will need to be able to manage supplier(s) to ensure successful completion of tasks to Airbus time cost & quality criteria.

This entails the following:

- Lead, plan and project manage tasks from initial concept through to successful completion and delivery to time, cost and quality;
- Provide Technical Leadership to ensure deliverables meet technical requirements;
- Develop the Engineering plans and resource requirements including skill mix to deliver Engineering objective whilst supporting development needs;
- Participate actively in the integration and optimisation of the component across Engineering procurement and manufacture;
- Support Improvement Projects and so drive cost savings.

As the successful candidate you should have a sound and broad Engineering background preferably in a structural environment and ideally a degree or HND/HNC in a relevant Engineering field and a minimum of 3 working years experience.

You will also be able to demonstrate;

- Project management and leadership skills ideally with track record for delivering Engineering and/or improvement programmes;
- Working knowledge of detailed Engineering processes;
- Experience in an Operational Engineering team;
- Experience managing engineering projects with external interfaces;
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to negotiate and influence people at all levels within the Organisation;
- Dynamic and enthusiastic individual with ability to motivate, a passion for identification of improvement opportunities and the drive to successfully implement change.