Aerodynamics Group Lead

Salary: £54,960 per year

Hours 37 Hours per week

We currently have an exciting opportunity for an Aerodynamics Group Lead to join a world class technical engineering company based in Bristol. This role will be important to developing capabilities to help protect national interests and global security. This could be just what you are looking for?

This is a truly rare opportunity to join an Aerodynamics leadership team as the Aerodynamics Group Lead for Future Systems Projects, focusing on the Future Combat Air System (FCAS & TEMPEST).

The Aerodynamics Group Lead will be a team leader, able to deliver agreed work packages across a number of ambitious projects. You will be accountable for delivery to time, cost, and quality through collaboration with other aerodynamics team leads, Technical Experts and senior project management teams. The role specifically covers those projects in the early concept design stages, with current activities ranging from aerodynamic design, characterisation, and assessment, through to early assessments of integration onto Aircraft platforms.

Importantly, you will manage and encourage to team to succeed, including performance evaluations, career development discussions, and ensuring the development of skills and proficiencies to improve performance and meet the future needs of the business.

As a senior role within the department, you will also support the Head of Aerodynamics with reporting, long-term management of team development, skill capability, recruitment, project workload, and resource allocation.

Your influencing skills will enable you to build strong networks and relationships across a wide range of partners, including those in the UK and internationally, Universities, SMEs, MoD customers in DE&S and DSTL, as well as aircraft platform authorities.

The company offer Hybrid working where possible, depending on Project requirements.

Benefits of working here:

• State of the art technology & innovation
• External learning and development encouraged.
• Light and airy university type campus.
• Friendly environment!
  
  • Restaurant, On site Medical Centre, Parking / Easy Access to train station, Coffee Shops & Onsite Shop, Sports & Social Club and More

Skills and qualifications:

• In-depth technical knowledge of Aerodynamics & Performance, ideally with experience of high speed or aircraft integration.
• Well-developed and proven leadership skills; evidence of strategic thinking and providing a clear vision
• Previous experience of people management and shaping teams, with all the hands-on people-management skills which this requires
• Desire to invest time into developing others and providing mentorship and coaching
• Excellent collaboration, engagement, partner management, communication and influencing skills
• Proven task package management, ensuring that outputs are on time, within budget and the correct level of quality, ideally in tough customer environments

Cirrus Selection offers the services of an Employment Agency for permanent recruitment and the services of an Employment Business for contract recruitment. 

You will need to obtain UK Security Clearance for this role. This will require you to either be a UK Citizen or UK Dual Citizen. Some restrictions may apply.