Senior Flight Controls Engineer

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Senior Flight Controls Engineer

Bristol, UK

£Competitive

Our client is building technology to revolutionise how people fly. Their mission is to make air travel personal, on-demand and carbon-free.

They're looking for a Senior Flight Controls Engineer to focus on the development, integration and certification of flight control laws for our vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft.

You will work with their suppliers and in-house engineers to ensure an optimised integrated system, bringing best practice and innovation to play in this fast-paced design and build environment.

Responsibilities

Your duties will be wide ranging and varied and will include:

- Lead the design, development and validation of bespoke flight control laws for novel aircraft configurations.

- Showing compliance of designs to relevant aerospace standards.

- Engage effectively across related disciplines to ensure quality and robust design solutions that are understood by people with varied technical backgrounds.

- Guide and mentor junior team members.

- Manage relationships and work closely with partners and suppliers of hardware, software and technical services.

- Support the Test team as required to explore and validate technical solutions.

Basic Qualifications / Experience

- Educated to degree level or higher in Aeronautical, Mechanical, Systems Engineering or equivalent.

- Expert knowledge of aircraft control, stability and handling qualities.

- Significant demonstrable experience working on flight control aspects of aircraft programmes.

- Experience tuning and optimising control systems.

- Ability to apply your experience to small vehicles of novel design and operational characteristics.

- Good supporting knowledge of aerodynamics, flight characteristics and sensor technology.

- Knowledge of how to interpret aircraft certification requirements and show compliance to them.

- Understanding of the role of simulation in fast-paced engineering programmes.

- Familiarity with the requirements of ground and flight testing.

- Passionate about technology and thrive in a fast-paced environment where flexibility is essential.

- Ability to communicate complex ideas so that they are understood by different audiences.

- Fluency in spoken and written English.

Preferred Qualifications/Experience

- Experience working with multiple types of air vehicle, including rotorcraft/multirotors.

- Direct involvement in flight test programmes.

- Previously held roles of responsibility for aircraft certification e.g. CVE within an aerospace DOA.

- A good supporting knowledge of software development and software integration.

- Significant experience with Matlab/Simulink.

- Commitment to professional development.

Please note, the closing date for applications is the 6th September 2019.

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