Product Design Authority

3 weeks ago

Crawley, United Kingdom Gold Group Full time

**Product Design Authority**
**Flight Avionics Connectivity**
West Sussex (Brighton / Horsham / Croydon / Reigate / Redhill areas.
£70,000 - £80,000 + Benefits and Bonus.

**The Role**:
As the Product Design Authority for Air to Ground Connectivity Products, residing in the Connectivity Competence Centre of the Flight Avionics Team, you will be the internal and customer-facing Technical Authority for a multi-disciplinary engineering team. You will be focused on the development, delivery, and in-service support of Air to Ground Connectivity product for the civil aviation market.

This includes:

- Leading the development of the technical solution for bids, and acting as the primary technical interface to potential new customers
- Supporting the design and delivery of future product upgrades, in line with product strategy
- Managing technical changes to the product baseline, including those residing in the supply chain
- Providing responses to technical customer queries for in-service products
- Supporting delivery of any future studies to prototype product enhancements, or develop future Air to Ground connectivity products

This role also provides the opportunity to support delivery of the Connectivity Competence Centre's Engineering Performance Plan; working with engineers from across Flight Avionics' international business line.
- Has an excellent track record of contributing to the delivery of compliant technical solutions; achieving cost, schedule, and customer satisfaction targets
- Understands the importance of following and continuously developing engineering process, and tracking progress through the use of appropriate engineering metrics
- Is a team player with a "can-do" attitude that performs effectively in a multi-disciplinary team environment and promotes the values of inclusiveness and diversity
- Understands their role within an organisation, how it supports delivery of the engineering vision and strategy, and can support planning or re-planning of work accordingly to align with the needs of the business
- Pays attention to detail, is inquisitive and possesses rigorous reviewing skills
- Communicates ideas clearly and concisely, demonstrating written and aural and presentation skills in the English language
- Communicates complex technical issues or ideas in a manner appropriate for a non-technical audience and is capable of representing the engineering view of programmes to all stakeholders, both internal and external
- Has the ability to analyse and combine data from various sources and to comment / report on them
- Is able to proficiently interpret product requirements and support the design of cost-effective, innovative technical solutions
- Demonstrates commercial awareness in the technical domain
- Prepared to go the extra mile when complex tasks need to be completed quickly

**Ideal Background**:

- Broad knowledge of Systems Engineering process, practices and lifecycle
- Background in Electronics / Avionic Systems development and knowledge of Avionics Certification (ARP 4754A, ARP 4761A, RTCA DO-178B/C, RTCA DO-254)
- Preferably experience of holding a Technical Leadership/Design Authority role previously; though this is not essential
- A detailed understanding of Requirements Engineering & Management
- Experience in telecommunications, and well versed with 3GPP documents on LTE/4G/5G services, features, requirements and conformance testing
- Strong knowledge of Data Networking, Network Management & Service Provisioning
- Good knowledge of regulatory requirements (aviation and radio)
- Good knowledge of how Avionic systems interrelate and interconnect
- Understanding of Integration, Verification & Validation (IVV)
- Understanding of Qualification & Certification Requirements
- Experience of interfacing with third party organisations
- Educated to either Degree or HNC/HND level

**Responsibilities**:

- Ensuring that the technical solution is feasible, competitive and meets customer expectations or product requirements in terms of cost, innovation, performance, schedule, etc.
- Acting as the primary technical leader of the bid or project team
- Acting as the lead technical interface with the Customer (or Product Line Manager for a Product)
- Monitoring, reviewing, advising and assisting with technical issues across the programme
- Ensuring solution compliance with product polices and requirements, as well as applicable legislation & regulations (i.e. Radio Regulation, aviation certification, export restrictions, Environmental/HSE, safety, security etc.)
- Checks that the engineering environment (process, practices and tools) for the solution is consistent with Country/Company requirements, and overall solution cost, technical risks & schedule
- Reviews together with the SEM (System Engineering Manager) the technical risks and opportunities and the related mitigation plans throughout the bid or project
- Prepares the DVa and submits it to the Design Authority approval
- Approves the ma

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