Principal Engineer

Package: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role ID: SF16979

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 a Principal Engineer at our Farnborough 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 a Principal Engineer, you will join a team providing high-integrity specialist advice across a range of military platforms, including Combat Air, Air Support, Training, Rotorcraft, and Uncrewed Air Systems.

Day-to-day, you'll work closely with our customers, design organisations, and other stakeholders in direct support of structural airworthiness, working in a breadth of our portfolio which provides exciting opportunities at all stages of platform life.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Acting as a technical specialist supporting the project engineers and managers in technical delivery accounting for time, cost, and quality.
• The production of timely and proactive engineering output whilst defining and delivering technical workplans, resources, and tasks.
• Ensuring that effective governance of all airworthiness and safety advice is demonstrated to meet the technical solutions appropriate regulatory, legal, and safety engineering standards.
• Capturing and understanding the customers' requirements and providing innovative solutions to any problems.
• Providing Technical Assurance of engineering outputs where appropriate and in line with experience and delegations.
• Contributing towards bidding activities and building customer relationships.

Essential experience of the Principal Engineer:

• Experience in one or more of the following subject areas: Aircraft structural integrity, independent structural airworthiness advice, Independent Technical Evaluation, Airworthiness policy and regulation, Aircraft usage assessment, Structural Health Monitoring, Aircraft loads evaluation, Flutter and aeroelastics, Stores integration, Structural teardown, Fatigue analysis, Flight data analysis, Civil/Military Aircraft certification, Digital Engineering, or Modelling and Simulation.
• Proven experience and understanding of UK military aircraft engineering and operating practices.
• Previous experience and expertise in relevant aerospace structures or equivalent disciplines.
• The ability to work both independently and collaboratively with the wider structures team and other disciplines.
• Strong communication skills and experience speaking with customers through verbal and written outputs.

Essential qualifications for the Principal Engineer:

• BEng / MEng in Aeronautical Engineering or similar.
• Chartered Engineer.

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 Farnborough. Hybrid working patterns are available.

At our Farnborough site, exciting work takes place at our state-of-the-art facility, with high-energy laser technologies, our 5m pressurised wind tunnel which has a simulation capability that is unique in the UK, and our large research and development projects is a real hub of creativity, research, and innovation. Join our talented teams of Engineers, IT & Cyber Specialists, Project Managers, Group Functions Teams, and many more to provide future defences in the UK.