Flight Controls Lead
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Employment type:
Full time
Experience required:
Intermediate
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About the company:
Why work with us?
We at Vertical Aerospace are pushing the boundaries of what is possible, creating technology to achieve sustainable air travel like never before. Vertical comprises a world-class team of leaders, experts, engineers who're all striving towards the same goal, to make air travel personal, on-demand, and carbon free. This is your chance to be a part of this extraordinary team.
Vertical is one the world’s leading eVTOL businesses, and a pioneer of this ground-breaking new segment, which marks the beginning of sustainable aviation.
Founded in 2016, Vertical uniquely combines the best of the aerospace, Formula 1 and automotive industries and has become one of only seven companies globally to have successfully flown multiple full-scale eVTOL prototypes. The VX4, is a world-leading fully composite tilt-rotor winged eVTOL that will carry one pilot and four passengers or cargo. VX4 is in plan to be certified in late 2024, placing the business in the top two companies globally with a commercially viable aircraft capable of spanning intra and intercity passenger and cargo eVTOL markets.
We are looking for a Flight Controls Lead who will:
Be responsible for the core fly by wire flight control system. This is a matrix management level position within a small and dynamic company so you will be expected to wear many hats from line management to strategy, from driving architectural design to supporting problem solving.
The responsibilities and duties as a Flight Controls Lead will be as follows:
- Setting department strategy of; technology routemap, skillsets, focus areas.
- Hiring & leading a second to none team of systems engineers to deliver a world-leading lightweight eVTOL aircraft capable of achieving the most stringent safety standards being set by the various aviation authorities around the world.
- Lead critical discussions with key suppliers & partners as well as finding new ones.
- Mentoring, growing and appraising the team.
- Working with peers to deploy the right skills into each sub project within the company.
The successful candidate will have the following Experiences & Qualifications:
- The ability to manage multiple tasks and thrive in a complex aircraft development environment managing multiple priorities simultaneously.
- Knowledge of regulatory certification specifications such as SC-VTOL, CS/FAR-23, 25, 27 or 29, ARP4754, ARP4761, DO-178/254
- Significant experience in: Requirement Management, Management of technical risk, V&V, Scheduling and resource planning.
- A passion for modern development tools & techniques including; MBSE/UML, Automated testing, CI/CD, python & Agile
- Proactivity, forward thinking and self-motivation with the ability to build and lead a team of like-minded systems engineers.
- A passion for building something new.
- A demonstrable track record of managing high performing teams.
- A core strength in leading and motivating highly innovative and technical teams, able to create differentiated value.
- The leadership capability to shape and deliver the company strategy as part of the engineering leadership team, serving as a true partner to colleagues across the business.
- Degree in Electronics, Software or equivalent and related experience working in an engineering discipline.
This is an on-going advert and interviews will be held on an ad-hoc basis until sufficient applications have been received.
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