Title:  Airworthiness Clearance Support Engineer

Package:  Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role ID:    SF17822

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 an Airworthiness Clearance Support Engineer at RAF Waddington near our Lincoln site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.

The Role
As an Airworthiness Clearance Support Engineer, you will be a digital QinetiQ employee embedded in a team working within the Royal Air Force’s Air & Space Warfare centre providing technical expertise to help cutting-edge flight trials gain airworthiness clearances.

Day-to-day, you’ll work with test and evaluation squadrons on gaining airworthiness clearances, helping accelerate the pace of innovation and military capability development in the air domain to meet current national security challenges.
 

Your responsibilities will include:

• The reviewing of technical documentation and advising to the Chief Test Pilot and the Chief Air Engineer on clearances and approvals for flight trials
• Developing appropriate Air System Safety Case claims, arguments and evidence to support duty holder approvals for flight trials
• Working with Defence Equipment & Support delivery teams and the Military Aviation authority to set policies for airworthiness clearances for flight trials
• Working with Continuing Airworthiness Management Organisations and Maintenance Organisations to ensure that plans for trial modifications are appropriately approved and managed
• Managing an iterative process of airworthiness hazard analysis and trial design to ensure that critical trials proceed rapidly with risks appropriately managed

Essential experience of the Airworthiness Clearance Support Engineer: 

• Previous experience and knowledge working with Defence Equipment & Support delivery teams on airworthiness clearance activities
• A strong understanding of military continuing airworthiness management regulations and practices
• Strong experience and knowledge of working with the Military Aviation Authority to gain alternative acceptable means of compliance, waivers and exemptions
• A high level technical understanding of some of the following disciplines: Aerodynamics, air system structural integrity, flight dynamics, safety critical software assurance, avionics systems integration, complex weapons and broad aerospace engineering knowledge
• Previous experience generating solutions to technical and regulatory challenges with a strong background in leadership

Essential qualifications for the Airworthiness Clearance Support Engineer:

• Engineering degree or equivalent

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. 

This role is 37 hours per week based at RAF Waddington. Hybrid working patterns available. Travel to other QinetiQ and customer sites will be expected.

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 experience 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

Our 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 local community

Our Recruitment Process:

We want to make sure that our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible and we aspire to bring out the best in our candidates by creating an environment where everyone feels value, heard and supported.  If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your Recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
 

Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed, applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which mean factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

Please note that all applicants for this role must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.

UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)