Landing Gear Design Engineer

The role

You will manage partners, consultancies, and suppliers to deliver technical solutions. You will develop design solutions for weight, safety, maintainability, and manufacturability requirements.

What you will do

• Managing partners, consultancies and suppliers to deliver technical solutions
• Developing design solutions that meet requirements for weight, safety, maintainability and manufacturability
• Contributing to design reviews, tolerance analysis and configuration management
• Supporting trade studies and programme maturity gates
• Preparing verification and certification evidence
• Preparing and reviewing drawings and technical reports
• Supporting the build and maintenance of the demonstrator aircraft

Required qualifications

• Demonstrated experience managing engineering suppliers
• Experience in landing gear, brake, hydraulic and/or comparable mechanical system design
• A sound understanding of mechanical engineering principles
• Experience contributing to one or more stages of the product development lifecycle
• The ability to take ownership of engineering tasks, solve problems and exercise sound technical judgement
• Experience using CATIA and 3DEXPERIENCE, or transferable skills from comparable CAD tools
• Strong organisational skills

Nice to have

• Experience leading wider technical activities
• Coordinating others
• Holding delegated signatory authority

Benefits

• 26 days holiday, plus bank holiday
• 5 extra days per year to buy (or sell)
• 5 extra days holiday when you get married or enter a civil partnership
• Additional 4% of your salary to spend on extra benefits
• Award-winning digital health and wellbeing service (Help@Hand)
• Company performance based bonus
• Company Share Scheme
• Company Pension Scheme: 5% and match
• Breakfast on us, every day

About the company

Vertical Aerospace is pioneering the way for electric aviation with the Valo eVTOL aircraft. The company is growing from a prototype business to a scaling SME.