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Location: South West
Job type: Permanent
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Contact: Sam Greaves
Sector: Aircraft
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Senior Flight Controls Engineer

Salary Competitive (DOE)

Permanent

Avon

Job Description

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Flight Controls Engineer to join a UK aerospace company, focussing on using innovative technology to revolutionise how people fly, working towards making air travel personal, on-demand and carbon-free.

The Senior Flight Controls Engineer to focus on the development, integration and certification of flight control laws for vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft.

The role will work with suppliers and in-house engineers to ensure an optimised integrated system, bringing best practice and innovation to play in this fast-paced design and build environment.

Responsibilities

Your duties will be wide ranging and varied and will include:

• Lead the design, development and validation of bespoke flight control laws for novel aircraft configurations.
• Showing compliance of designs to relevant aerospace standards.
• Engage effectively across related disciplines to ensure quality and robust design solutions that are understood by people with varied technical backgrounds.
• Guide and mentor junior team members.
• Manage relationships and work closely with partners and suppliers of hardware, software and technical services.
• Support the Test team as required to explore and validate technical solutions.

Basic Qualifications / Experience

• Educated to degree level or higher in Aeronautical, Mechanical, Systems Engineering or equivalent.
• Expert knowledge of aircraft control, stability and handling qualities.
• Many years of demonstrable experience working on flight control aspects of aircraft programmes.
• Experience tuning and optimising control systems.
• Ability to apply your experience to small vehicles of novel design and operational characteristics.
• Good supporting knowledge of aerodynamics, flight characteristics and sensor technology.
• Knowledge of how to interpret aircraft certification requirements and show compliance to them.
• Understanding of the role of simulation in fast-paced engineering programmes.
• Familiarity with the requirements of ground and flight testing.
• Passionate about technology and thrive in a fast-paced environment where flexibility is essential.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas so that they are understood by different audiences.
• Fluency in spoken and written English.

Preferred Qualifications/Experience

• Experience working with multiple types of air vehicle, including rotorcraft/multirotors.
• Direct involvement in flight test programmes.
• Previously held roles of responsibility for aircraft certification e.g. CVE within an aerospace DOA.
• A good supporting knowledge of software development and software integration.
• Significant experience with Matlab/Simulink.
• Commitment to professional development.

This company is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. They do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Apply now for more details by sending your CV via the link provided and we will be in touch for a confidential discussion.

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