Senior Project Engineer - Design

About the role

At Airbus in Belfast, we are pioneering the future of sustainable aerospace by delivering world‑class aerostructures and systems innovations. In this role you will provide strong technical leadership across a broad spectrum of structures and systems installation packages, ensuring all engineering outputs rigorously comply with Design Authority requirements. As a key mentor within our Integrated Product Design Teams, you will cultivate talent, direct team activities, and embed lessons learned into updated procedures to raise engineering excellence.

Key responsibilities

• Provide direct line management, technical leadership, and mentoring to a team of design engineers, overseeing end‑to‑end team activities and developing new approaches to complex engineering problems.
• Take functional responsibility for assigned projects or programmes, delivering engineering commitments within agreed schedules, quality standards, and budgets.
• Maintain advanced design engineering expertise to advise user departments across the design‑to‑manufacturing lifecycle, ensuring components meet customer specifications and airworthiness regulatory requirements.
• Conduct full project feasibility studies, collaborating with senior specialists, customers, and key suppliers to coordinate broad engineering packages.

Required profile

• Minimum BSc/BEng degree with at least 3 years of relevant design engineering experience including management/project‑management responsibility, or 5 years with lesser qualifications.
• Proven track record of engaging, influencing, and collaborating with senior leadership, customers, suppliers and Certification Authorities.
• Demonstrated capability in leading, mentoring, and developing high‑performing engineering teams, fostering resilience and driving strategic execution.
• Strong organisational command and high‑impact communication skills to present complex engineering concepts clearly.

Required skills

• Aircraft structures design
• Systems integration and installation design
• Airworthiness regulatory compliance

What we offer

• Competitive salary, annual profit share, contributory pension and share options.
• 36‑hour week, flexible working around core hours and Friday afternoons off.