Lead Fluid Mechanical Design Engineer

LOCATION: Filton (60% of your working week must be office based) Health & Wellbeing: Bupa health insurance (including assisted fertility treatments and gender dysphoria & reassignment support), wellbeing benefits (including 24/7 online GP and mental health support), discounted family health / dental insurance / eye tests, cycle-to-work scheme, on-site canteen and coffee shop, lunchtime yoga / meditation Family and Caregiving: Life assurance, enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave and caregiving and purpose built maternity rooms on site Lead a multi-disciplinary team to deliver the end-to-end conceptualization, detailed design, and integration of complex fluid-mechanical lab test means for current (Serial) and future (R&T) aircraft programs. Ensure all test rig designs strictly adhere to Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) regulations, ATEX requirements for hazardous environments, and internal Airbus quality standards. You will be responsible for undertaking technical risk assessments and defining safe systems of work. Translate high-level customer needs into rigorous technical specifications, ensuring every rig is fit-for-purpose and compliant. Drive the project through critical milestones, including Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR) and Critical Design Reviews (CDR), ensuring technical integrity at every stage. Oversee the verification and validation of test means, ensuring a seamless and safe transition to our internal customers. Establish and maintain precise A/C system configuration records to ensure data integrity as we enter into critical test campaigns. Contribute your expertise to the long-term technology roadmap for the department, identifying where we need to be in 5-10 years. Evaluate and implement emerging technologies-such as Test Automation and Digital Twin platforms-to modernize our laboratory capabilities. Act as the primary technical point of contact for external suppliers, driving quality and performance in design and build sub-packages. Lead the technical costing and resource estimation for new test mean proposals. Serve as the senior point of escalation for complex fluid mechanical problem troubleshooting, ensuring maximum availability of our legacy test infrastructure. BEng/Meng in Mechanical Engineering or a HNC qualification in Mechanical Engineering with Significant experience working in a test laboratory environment. Practical experience with systems testing techniques. Experience working with Large, High Pressure, Fluid Mechanical Systems (e.g hydraulics, pneumatics, high-flow pumps, etc). Familiarity with Fluid-Mechanical instrumentation and Data Logging/Acquisition. Experience working within hazardous environments (e.g. ATEX) and with combustible fluids/kerosene. Proven ability in Design documentation writing/reviewing, and a proactive ability to influence and work effectively across transnational teams.