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Working directly alongside the current Chief Engineer ahead of his planned retirement, you'll receive structured mentoring and knowledge transfer while leading technical investigations, integration activities and stakeholder engagement across the defence aviation community, providing a unique pathway into a future Chief Engineer role.\nYou'll be supporting a sophisticated airborne targeting and sensor system deployed on the RAF Typhoon aircraft, ensuring the equipment continues to deliver operational capability across the fleet. As part of a small, specialist team, you'll work closely with military users, aircraft manufacturers and industry partners to investigate technical issues, assess system performance and support continuous improvement activities.\nThis role provides the opportunity to develop in-depth product knowledge and ultimately become the engineering lead and recognised authority for the capability.\nKey Responsibilities:\nInvestigate complex in-service technical and operational issues.\nConduct fault analysis, root cause investigations and technical assessments.\nSupport aircraft integration and system performance activities.\nAct as a key engineering interface with customers, suppliers and partner organisations.\nSupport airworthiness, safety and technical governance activities.\nAssess and resolve unusual or complex issues beyond routine maintenance and repair activities.\nProvide technical guidance and support to internal and external stakeholders.\nParticipate in customer meetings, reviews and technical presentations.\nSupport equipment upgrades, modifications and capability enhancements.\nTravel to RAF bases and customer locations as required.\nYou'll regularly engage with:\nRAF personnel and operational users\nAircraft maintainers and engineering teams\nProgramme leadership\nOriginal Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs)\nKey defence supply chain partners\nStrong communication skills are essential, as you'll often act as the technical focal point between multiple stakeholders.\nEssential Experience:\nSystems Engineering background within a complex engineering environment.\nAbility to investigate and resolve technical problems.\nExperience working with multiple stakeholders and customers.\nStrong communication and relationship-building skills.\nAbility to understand system-level behaviour and performance.\nWe're interested in engineers who combine strong technical capability with excellent stakeholder engagement skills -Particularly Attractive Backgrounds:\nDefence aviation systems engineers.\nAvionics engineers looking to move into a broader systems role.\nAircraft integration engineers.\nEx-RAF engineering personnel.\nAerospace engineers with experience supporting military or complex airborne systems.\nEngineers with Typhoon, fast jet or targeting system experience.\nWhy Join? 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