Airworthiness Group Leader - Continued Airworthiness

Job Title: Airworthiness Group Leader - Continued Airworthiness

Location: Brough - We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £54,793 - £60,326 – depending on experience

Referral Scheme Bonus: £1000

Grade: AB06

You’re expected to have completed 12 months in role prior to applying for an advertised vacancy and you should also discuss the internal opportunity with your line manager to ensure sustained business continuity and to further support your career development.

We know there may be exceptional individual circumstances that impact this, in the first instance please discuss this with your line manager.

If you don’t feel you can talk to your Line Manager, you can contact your HRBP.

PLEASE NOTE: Should you be invited for interview; you acknowledge that the Recruitment team will contact you and your line manager regarding your application for this opportunity.

What you’ll be doing:

Capturing, managing and delivering fault investigations workload, allocating to team members, and monitoring of progress

Leading Airworthiness equipment and system fault investigations requested by Customer or other stakeholders, this includes engagement with Vendors and other specialist teams

Preparing and issuing fault investigation reports, ensuring they are technically correct, and they are supported by technical advice from the appropriate specialist teams and the Vendor

Provisioning fault investigation technical expertise to the Airworthiness team, including mentoring and coaching junior engineers, to develop the fault investigation capability

Carrying out outward reporting and escalation of fault investigation delivery or technical issues to Airworthiness management

Engaging with other fault investigators to review good practice across BAE Systems Air(UK) programmes, and to recommend updates to process to embody bast practice

Your skills and experiences:

Degree or equivalent experience in an engineering discipline

Previous experience of equipment fault investigation

Previous experience of Hawk or Fast Jet aircraft systems

Beneficial knowledge, skills and qualifications for this role include knowledge of (one or more): Engineering integration, Systems engineering, Airframe engineering or Airworthiness

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The BAE Systems Hawk Airworthiness team:

The Hawk Airworthiness team is responsible for the flight certification of the Hawk Air System, including production of an independent safety judgement, and continued airworthiness of the in-service Hawk aircraft. As part of the Continued Airworthiness function within this team, you will work with dedicated specialist engineers who provide flight safety analysis and monitoring of defects and emergent issues, as well as assurance and promulgation of the response to mitigate unsafe conditions.

Joining our team, you will get an amazing opportunity to interact with our diverse customer base and product focused engineering organisations. This role offers a great chance to use your leadership skills by managing junior members of the team, setting the stage for progression to higher-grade positions.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and have been in their current role for 12 months or longer.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks

Closing date: 21st August 2025