Job Description

Role: Sustainment Engineer - Electronic Hardware

Location: Cheltenham

Duration: 12 months

Rate: Up to 70 per hour (Umbrella only)

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Role Summary/Purpose

Having experience working with complex electronics to component level, you will support post design activities on our displays and controls portfolio. You will resolve technical/engineering issues to ensure production output and product performance targets are achieved.

Management of change is a key part of the role. You will be able to analyse problems to root cause, and drive corrective actions as required. You will manage obsolescence issues, including re-design, risk analysis, change impact analysis, cost, last-time-buy, documentation configuration and customer approval. Operating within the strict regulatory regimes of the aviation industry, you will ensure compliance with type certification and airworthiness and work with a product line that has significant revenue impact within the Cheltenham portfolio. You will maintain the aircraft system configuration by analysing and amending the directory of documents that go into the structure of our declarations of design and performance.

Key Activities:

• Support the Configuration Management Plan for assigned program, responsible for execution of design data including changes to supporting technical documentation, drawings, bills of materials, specifications.
• Provide engineering analysis to purchasing queries
• Establish and maintain relationships with internal and external customers, ensuring customer requirements are understood and met
• Develop solutions to technical problems, including component obsolescence and product improvements.
• Support the implementation of design changes resulting from FRACAS activities (Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action System)
• Ensure compliance with mandatory regulations, standards and company processes

Qualifications / Requirements

Qualification to degree level in an electronic discipline, or equivalent experience

• Experience of working in a similar role and environment, not limited to aerospace
• Experience of working in a design role
• Strong design document & configuration knowledge.
• Product knowledge & Expertise. Knowledge of displays an advantage.
• Multifunctional & Multi cultural Team Working.
• Demonstrated problem solving skills.
• Continuous improvement & Results driven.

Desired Behaviours / Skills

• Experience working in a sustainment engineering or post design role
• Experience working in an electronic/electrical design role
• Experience in complete product life cycle support
• A pragmatic approach to problem solving within the confines of existent product qualification
• Ability to work multiple technical tasks in parallel
• To be able to integrate and work as part of a small team
• Experience with the Windchill PLM syste