Senior Project Engineer

Collins Aerospace, a Raytheon Technologies company, is a world leader in advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defence industries. With a comprehensive inertial sensing and integrated navigation technology portfolio and deep domain expertise, we deliver cutting-edge systems that solve our customers’ toughest stabilisation, flight control and navigation challenges and help shape the future of aviation and defence.

This is an onsite role based at our Plymouth site, where we design and manufacture control, navigation, and guidance systems for both air and surface applications. Our world-class products include MEMS-based Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) and the TERPROM® Digital Terrain Reference Navigation System.

Our growth plan includes development and extension of our current technologies into state of the art military and civil aircraft applications and we’re looking for exceptional engineers to join us on that journey.

As a Project Engineer, you will play a key technical leadership role across new product development and current production programmes, supporting both existing business and future growth.

You will:

• →Act as a technical lead across the full project lifecycle, owning the technical vision and delivery
• →Work closely with discipline leads to deliver complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects
• →Serve as the customer’s technical focal point, managing technical delivery, change, and communication
• →Ensure projects are delivered to schedule, cost, and quality
• →Lead systems engineering activities, including requirements management and compliance
• →Provide technical input to planning, estimation, and project management
• →Support customer presentations, technical meetings, trials, and exhibitions
• →Contribute to bids and proposals, including resourcing and technical compliance
• →Translate customer requirements into technical specifications, solution development, and compliance tracking
• →Travel occasionally to UK and international customer sites for meetings, trials, and programme reviews

In this role, you’ll gain:

• →Deep exposure to cutting edge aerospace navigation and sensor technologies
• →Experience leading projects through the full product development lifecycle
• →Hands-on involvement in customer integration and aircraft systems
• →Insight into international collaboration across engineering teams
• →Opportunities to develop your technical leadership, stakeholder engagement, and systems engineering expertise
• →Access to world-class training, mentoring, and long-term career development pathways

Essential

• A strong technical background, with a 2:1 Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in Engineering or a closely related technical discipline such as Mathematics or Physics
• Experience working within an engineering and/or manufacturing organisation
• Ability to operate effectively in a technical environment, contributing to engineering delivery and problem-solving
• A clear and confident communicator, able to work with customers, engineers, and project stakeholders

Desirable

• Background or experience in Systems Engineering
• Experience leading or coordinating project teams within an engineering environment
• Exposure to sensor-based technologies, electronics, or complex technical systems
• Experience working across multi-disciplinary engineering teams

Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions — whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionised systems for specialised aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you’ll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customers succeed today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow. Are you up for the challenge? Join our mission today.  

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