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Airbus

Lead Fatigue & Damage Tolerance (F&DT) Engineer

Location:  Bristol, United Kingdom
Location flexibility:  1 office day / week, 2 office days / week, 3 office days / week, 4 office days / week
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Job Description

Job Description:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Lead Fatigue & Damage Tolerance (F&DT) Engineer to join the Wing Analysis Engineering team at Filton.

Are you passionate about developing wing structures and collaborating across multidisciplinary teams? We are a team of structural engineers, technical experts, and project managers committed to delivering innovative technical solutions to support wing analysis across our aircraft programs.

How you will contribute

  • Technical Signatory & Certification: Act as the formal signatory for F&DT structural deliverables, verifying compliance with CS-25, safety, airworthiness, and customer requirements.
  • Technical Project Steering: Define, scope, and direct F&DT analysis packages, managing delivery across internal multidisciplinary teams, Chief Engineers, and risk-sharing suppliers.
  • Mentorship & Capability Building: Guide and develop junior to mid-level stress engineers, cultivating robust first-principles understanding, tool proficiency, and technical decision-making.
  • Process & Tool Transformation: Collaborate with Process, Methods & Tools (PMT) and Digitalization teams to integrate automated stress workflows, parametric scripts, and next-generation sizing tools into daily engineering practices.
  • Cross-Functional Integration: Serve as the structural interface with Design, Manufacturing Engineering, Materials & Processes, and Flight Physics to achieve optimized, lightweight, and manufacturable designs.

About You

We are looking for candidates with the following skills and competences:

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Signatory Credential:
Proven experience holding or readiness to qualify for delegated approval signatory status for F&DT analysis
  • Methods & Toolsets: High proficiency in Airbus methods and tools (e.g., ISAMI, GISEH, Nastran, HyperWorks) alongside strong classical hand-calculation capabilities.
  • Leadership & Delivery: A proven track record of leading technical engineering packages to agreed time, cost, and quality gates, with the confidence to challenge and influence cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Problem-Solving Mindset: A proactive approach to technical resolution, with an appetite for digital innovation, automation, and continuous process improvement.
  • Communication: Proven ability to communicate clearly and translate complex analytical data into decisive, high-level summaries.
  • Not a 100% match? No worries! Airbus supports your personal growth with customised development solutions.

    How can we support you.....

    Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time. Please talk to us at the interview about the flexibility you need and we’ll always do our best to accommodate your request.

    Please let us know if you need us to make any adjustments for the selection process - you can share this with your Talent Acquisition Partner if you are invited to interview. Examples may include (but not exclusive to) accessible facilities; auxiliary aids; room layout, etc. Any information disclosed will be treated in the strictest confidence.

    As a Disability Confident Employer, Airbus UK will offer an interview to any applicant that considers themselves to have a disability or long-term condition under the Equality Act 2010 and meets the minimum criteria of the role (as set out in the job advert). To ‘opt in’, just select the option during your application submission and your application will be considered accordingly.

    This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

    Company:
    Airbus Operations Limited

    Employment Type:
    Permanent
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    Experience Level:
    Professional

    Job Family:
    Structure & Dynamic Systems Analysis

    By submitting your CV or application you are consenting to Airbus using and storing information about you for monitoring purposes relating to your application or future employment. This information will only be used by Airbus.
    Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

    Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to emsom@airbus.com .

    At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

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