Design Structures Approver – Technical Lead & Signatory

Design Structures Approver

Our client has an opportunity for a Design Structures Approver to join them on a contract basis until the end of 2026.

Location: Broughton, Flintshire. Hours: 35 per week. Hourly rate: £44-£50 per hour via umbrella, inside IR35. Clearance: BPSS required to start.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead, guide and approve design solutions for a range of tasks, including Major/Minor Design Modifications and Design Query Notes (work’s query notes).
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to the engineering team, assisting with development of team members, identifying skill gaps and driving plans to close those gaps.
• Ensure that design standards and requirements are met, liaising with other functions and projects to ensure the design solutions are fully integrated.
• Operate as a design approval signatory.
• Support ongoing continuous improvement initiatives to increase team efficiency through methods, process and other capability improvements.
• Support and build strong relationships between wider stakeholders including CVE, Chief Engineer, Configuration Management and Local Programmes Team to enable a satisfactory design solution and implementation on the aircraft that supports airworthiness type certification and configuration management.

Requirements

• Motivated and self‑driven with the ability to work autonomously when required, whilst being a strong team player.
• Deliver reliably on time, cost and quality whilst embracing change and challenge when appropriate.
• Anticipation mindset, able to identify risks and opportunities and manage them appropriately.
• Understand and synthesize multiple complex activities, simplify and communicate them clearly, on a timely basis, to all stakeholders as needed.
• Innovative mindset, able to think freely with a degree of curiosity to explore new or alternative ideas and approaches.
• Work in an open and trusting environment.
• Understand, nurture and demonstrate resilience.
• Industry recognised design signatory delegation (Design Approval).

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