About the role

With experience in an aerospace certification environment and a good working knowledge of CS/FAR-25, (UK/E)TSO-C127 and associated regulatory requirements, you will support the Certification team and wider Engineering department, including New Product Design, Applications Engineering and Programme Management teams, to achieve UKTSO, ETSO and/or TSO and OEM Frame Specification compliance for a range of programmes with our customers.

You’ll join a high performing team and growing business, passionate about innovation and development of best-in-class lightweight aircraft seating. In this role, you will take ownership of seat certification programmes, and as a key stakeholder in ensuring the successful completion of projects, you’ll work collaboratively with internal teams and liaise with external parties such as regulators, test houses, airline customers and aircraft OEM’s. These projects can vary from a revised installation layout, introduction of new seat features, to supporting an all-new seat design through initial certification from concept to production.

YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

In your role as our Certification Engineer, you will:

• Maintain certification project milestones and schedules required to complete projects.
• Manage, track and report to ensure adherence to programme deliverables on time.
• Generate and check test plans and reports to a consistent high quality standard.
• Coordinate with design and test staff to support development and certification test campaigns, to officially witness testing and to interpret and present test results.
• Liaise with the New Product Development Engineering team during the design and development stages of a project, and with the Applications Engineering team during the customer configuration stage of a project to provide guidance and to ensure alignment with regulatory requirements.
• Liaise with regulators to ensure quick and seamless issuance of (UK/E)TSO, as well as supporting customer and aircraft OEM meetings and deliverables.