Expression of Interest - Rotary Engineering Subject Matter Expert
Contract Type: Full time – fixed term and permanent
Practice Areas: Military rotary wing engineer
Salary: Highly competitive based on experience and skills
Location: UK wide
To apply for this vacancy online, please click here. Alternatively send a copy of your CV and cover letter to [email protected] quoting job 23-09
The Role
Due to the continued success and growth of Inzpire within the helicopter delivery teams at Defence Equipment and Support, we are seeking rotary wing engineers with capability and acquisition experience to join our team to:
- Provide certification and safety input to delivery teams
- Support platform engineering authorities
- Support development of release to service and military type certification
- Development certification of synthetic training devices IAW RA2375
Please note that this is an expression of interest at this stage, but we expect a formal job vacancy to be published in the near future which will trigger the recruitment process. Those that have expressed an interest will be contacted first to offer an opportunity to be considered as part of the formal application for a role.
The Person
We are seeking highly experienced, suitably qualified and proactive individuals with a ‘can do attitude’, who are capable of working with minimal supervision and who are not afraid to contribute their own suggestions and ideas for business improvement. Candidates must possess exceptional communication skills and be willing to embrace the Inzpire work ethic of loyalty, flexibility and consistently delivering above and beyond our customer’s expectations.
The following experience and skills are essential:
- Platform delivery team or in-service capability management experience
- Experience in a frontline engineering leadership role
The following experience and skills are desirable:
- Having held a Letter of Airworthiness Authority or worked as a Continuing Airworthiness Manager
- Experience with Certification of Airworthiness of a military Air System
- Project management experience in the defence sector
- Involvement with Simulator RA2375 accreditation
- Development of safety arguments for a delivery team or Air System Safety Case
Due to the nature of elements of the role, the successful applicant must be a UK National and may be required to successfully complete National Security Vetting which may require criminal record, security service and credit reference checks; qualification will also normally require a minimum UK residency of at least 5 years.
Benefits
Our comprehensive benefits package includes:
- 25 days paid holiday plus 8 days bank holidays per year
- Uncapped leave scheme (upon successful completion of probation period)
- Company provided private medical and dental insurance
- Company share incentive scheme
- Annual profit and performance related pay scheme
- Generous death in service (£100k)
- Company contributions into a group personal pension scheme
- Business travel insurance
- Funded role specific training and financial assistance with professional development
- Tax efficient cycle to work and charitable giving schemes
- Tax efficient electric vehicle company car scheme
The Company
We are a highly innovative and rapidly growing defence and technology company that design, develop, and deliver some of the world’s most advanced defence related training, products, and services.
In 2022, we were listed as one of the ‘100 Best Large Companies to Work For’ in the UK and Midlands by Best Companies, for the second year in a row. We also achieved a ‘Best Companies 3 Star Accreditation’ and a rating of ‘world-class’ for our employee engagement, for the eighth year in a row. For seven consecutive years, we were named as a Sunday Times ‘100 Best Small Companies to Work For’ and were crowned the ‘Small Employer of the Year’ at the Heropreneurs Awards in 2019. Plus in 2021, we were honoured with a second Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation, for our next-generation GECO military mission planning system.
As part of a unique and specialist defence company, our friendly team consists of experienced and highly capable individuals, working together with a mature ‘can do’ work ethic. Our central business functions are located in an easily accessible, bright and modern head office to the west of Lincoln, alongside our mission systems team, while the majority of our operational specialists are embedded alongside our Defence customers.
Equal Opportunities
We genuinely recognise the benefits of a diverse and inclusive working environment. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer, a supportive signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant and a 2019 Gold award winner within the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. We are therefore delighted to offer a guaranteed interview scheme to service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners (including those of service leavers) who meet all our advertised requirements.
Latest News
Welcome to the Inzpire team Phil
20.03.23
New Joiners
Phil joins us as a principal training consultant having spent 20 years as a training specialist in the MOD.
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