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Aviation Engineering Centre (AEC)
The AEC is made up of a design section and a production section. The design section produces designs from customer’s requirements involving a team of many technical disciplines, electrical, mechanical, stress, airworthiness and safety for example. The design are predominantly for an airborne platform, fixed wing or rotorcraft.
What will I be doing?
- The primary scope an Electrical/Avionics Integration Systems Design Engineer role is focused on producing the electrical integration of a system on to an airborne platform.
- You will undertake a variety of tasks as part of a team, ensuring technical solutions meet business, customer and airworthiness requirements.
- Following the internal design process you will:
- Analyse customer requirements and produce a scheme which will involve:
- Liaising with your team peers to understand the associated airworthiness requirements.
- System’s major component selection
- Platform interface requirements
- Platform surveys
- Produce electrical design on CAD (Computer Aided Design) package which will involve:
- Detailed review of documentation required to create the system design.
- Integration component selection.
- Location of components.
- Cable routing.
- Production of design documents associated with the design, this will involve:
- Learning how the system works
- Producing a ground test schedule
- Analysing the electrical load change on the platform
- Assessment of electrical parts with respect to the platform’s expected environmental operational conditions.
- System fault hazard analysis with respect to the platform
- Support to the integration of the design onto the platform:
- Liaison with the platform installation team
- Answering of engineering queries
- Assisting with the commissioning of the system
- You will be mentored and trained in the methods and best practices to achieve a design that meets the regulatory airworthiness requirements.
Academic requirements
You will need to have attained a degree with a key focus on any of the disciplines listed below:
- Electrical Engineering
- Electronic Engineering
- Avionics
- Communications
- Radio frequency technology
Additional requirements:
- Have a strong interest and/or experience with aerospace
- Passionate about electrical/electronic technology design and test
- Keen interest in making things, such as model making
- Enjoy working out how things work and fixing them.
- Technical problem solving
Mandatory
In accordance with our National Security Vetting requirements, all applicants must also be eligible for SC clearance as a minimum.
Please note that under immigrations rules, our Early Careers roles do not meet the legal threshold for candidates who are residents of the UK on student visas.
