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Location

Belfast | United Kingdom

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Job description

Overview

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS:

Stress Engineers

Spirit AeroSystems is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of aerostructures for commercial airplanes, defence platforms, and business/regional jets. With expertise in aluminium and advanced composite manufacturing solutions, the company’s core products include fuselages, integrated wings and wing components, pylons, and nacelles.  Spirit also serves the aftermarket for commercial and business/regional jets. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Spirit has facilities in the U.S., U.K., France, Malaysia, and Morocco. More information is available at: . 

Our exciting Engineering opportunities offer: 

 

• 36-hour working week (half day Friday) 
• Generous holidays 
• Range of flexible schedules 
• Pension scheme 
• Death in service payment 
• Company sick scheme 
• On site Occupational Health department 
• Employee assistance Programme 
• Professional development and growth 
• Coaching and mentoring 
• Opportunity for advancement 
• Free car-parking 
• Enhanced maternity pay   

Responsibilities

ENGINEERING

The Design Engineering Departments at Spirit AeroSystems in Belfast offer opportunities to work alongside other specialists from a range of disciplines in cross-functional teams. These teams work in a wide variety of projects including Research & Development, Engineering support to sustaining programmes and new product development. Engineers are offered positions according to the requirements of the skills groups listed below and are then placed in the appropriate project teams according to experience and personal preference. Movement between projects occurs as business needs demand and internal opportunities arise.

We are now seeking suitably qualified, experienced and highly motivated aerospace engineering technical specialists and managers at various levels in the following fields:

STRESS (Senior and Experienced)

These roles require good specialist knowledge of aircraft structure and systems, the associated regulatory requirements, applied analysis methods and testing procedures. Preferably applicants will have relevant experience in the fields of composite primary structure, durability and damage tolerance, or finite element analysis. Experience of analysis and dossier/report, checking and approval is also advantageous.

(Relevant educational disciplines – Aeronautical or Mechanical Engineering).

Successful candidates will be graded against their performance at interview and their alignment to the below responsibilities.

Qualifications

Candidate criteria and key job responsibilities are given below:

Level 2 Engineer (Senior) Competitive salary + (Incentive Programme in place)

• BSc Eng/BEng Degree with a minimum of 5 years’ relevant experience or an HNC with a minimum of 8 years’ relevant experience; and the ability to demonstrate experience in dealing with senior management, customers, suppliers and Regulatory Authorities is essential.
• Key duties include; the provision of leadership for specified department, functional responsibility for a programme or projects and ensuring project commitments are met within schedule and budget.

Level 3 Engineer (Senior) Competitive salary + (Incentive Programme in place)

• BSc Eng/BEng Degree with a minimum of 5 years’ relevant experience or an HNC with a minimum of 8 years’ relevant experience including proven technical expertise and leadership.
• Key duties include; the provision of leadership for specialist technical engineering activities or responsibility for a team of engineers and specialist support staff. Responsibility for ensuring project commitments are met within schedule and budget.

Level 4 Engineer (Senior) Competitive salary + (Incentive Programme in place)

• BSc Eng/BEng Degree with a minimum 5 years’ relevant experience or an HNC with a minimum of 8 years’ relevant experience
• Key duties include; the provision of leadership for specialist technical engineering activities and responsibility for a team of engineers and specialist support staff.

Band 6 Engineer (Experienced) Competitive salary

• HNC with at least 4 years’ relevant experience.
• Key duties include; the utilisation of acquired skills and techniques to help solve problems of a relatively complex or wide ranging nature; performing work and assisting in tasks involving some relatively complex plans and investigations for which there will normally exist some precedent and/ or procedures.

Please note, applicants who have applied for and been interviewed for engineering positions advertised in the previous 6 months need not reapply.

Completed applications must be submitted by 4PM on Thursday 7th March 2024.  

We employ people from all sections of the community and are committed to the appointment of the best candidate based upon the merit principle alone. In pursuit of our equal opportunities programme, we would particularly welcome more applications from Catholics and females, as these groups are currently under-represented in our workforce.

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