Job summary

Lead Design Engineer - 12 month contract - Scotstoun (Glasgow) - £45.76ph UMB or £34ph PAYE (Inside IR35)

Key skills required for this role

Design engineer

Important

Lead Design Engineer

Job description

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading and coordinating technical activities across BAE-Outfit, Mechanical, Electrical, and Structural design disciplines.

• Implementing design solutions that meet project requirements and adhere to industry standards.

• Ensuring effective communication and collaboration among multidisciplinary teams.

• Providing technical guidance and mentorship to design teams.

• Reviewing and approving technical documentation and design outputs.

• Maintaining compliance with relevant safety and quality standards.

• Managing project timelines, deliverables, and resource allocation.

• Reporting on project progress and addressing any technical challenges that arise.

Knowledge:

• Considerable experience in engineering or technical role

• Experience of large scale engineering projects

• Self-awareness and consequential impact on other

• Requires a breadth and depth of specialist technical knowledge and a broad experience of processes, data systems and the business environment

Skills:

• Ability to communicate & exchange ideas effectively both verbally and in writing.

• Collaborates with others to achieve goals & objectives.

• Demonstrates influencing and negotiation skills where required.

• Demonstrates customer focus, demonstrates diplomacy and tactfulness in customer communications.

• Ability to interpret and communicate technical instructions.

• Applies judgement to the selection of appropriate solution to problems, based on own knowledge and experience of similar situations and within the limits of documentation and governing processes.

• Uses escalation procedures for emergent issues.

Qualifications:

• Requires completion of vocational training (Apprenticeship, Vocational Qualifications) or the equivalent experience

• May require external certification (HNC, ONC, HND) but typically does not require a university degree

• Would be desirable if post holder has EngTech status or working towards IEng or CEng status (UK).

Security:

BPSS only

This role requires you to obtain a basic disclosure along with employment reference checks before starting.