Senior Project Engineer
Banbury
Site Based
At Safran, excellence is a journey – and we'd love you to be a part of it. As a trusted global leader in aerospace, defence, and space, we are proud to be a company where diversity, innovation, and opportunity come together to shape a sustainable future where we can all succeed together through a shared vision
We are looking for talented individuals to join our Engineering team as a Senior Project Engineer at our Banbury site
About Safran Actuation Systems UK
Safran Actuation Systems UK is a world class centre for the design, manufacture and support of actuation and flight control solutions used across commercial, military and rotary platforms. With major sites in Wolverhampton and Banbury, our teams play a critical role in delivering innovative, reliable and safe systems that keep aircraft performing at their best.
We are looking for passionate individuals to join our Engineering team as a Senior Project Engineer at our Banbury site.
Looking after the people who make Safran great is our priority. We offer a range of flexible benefits designed to support you—both in and out of work, including:
- Early finish on Fridays
- Competitive salary and annual bonus and pay review
- 25 days' holiday + bank holidays (option to buy/sell)
- Strong Pension scheme and life assurance
- Professional development, ongoing training, mentoring
- Private Medical, Health Cash Plan
- Family-friendly and accessible workplace policies
Your Role
A key contributor in the development, qualification and production support of composite products and processes in a highly challenging and fast-paced environment working within CTG's engineering team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Create detailed CAD models and drawings (NX beneficial), with FEA knowledge expected.
- Understand drawings and technical specifications in order to assess and maintain compliance to all requirements and where necessary, liaise with the customer and suppliers to determine technical requirements.
- Review and approve component and assembly drawings through detailed understanding of GD&T and interaction between components.
- Generate qualification test/analysis strategy and rationale for novel structural composite components.
- Perform or oversee qualification and development testing using in-house as well as subcontract test facilities and interrogate test results to verify component and material performance.
- Author, review and approve qualification test procedures and reports.
- Ability to generate engineering performance / stress reports for existing and novel components.
- Knowledge and experience of basic statistical analysis is beneficial.
- Collaborate cross functionally to perform DFMEA, PFMEAs, project technical risk assessments and generating project plans
- Experience of engineering changes and change processes, understanding the impact of change requests to implement changes. (Teamcenter experience is beneficial)
