About this role
Salary: £114,400 - 114,400 per year
Requirements
- Significant experience with the GOLDesp application and reference data management
- Aircraft Custodian experience or equivalent expertise supporting aircraft data integrity
- Experience providing airworthiness support in an aviation environment
- Proven ability to manage testing and releases, and resolve work orders or incidents
- SC clearance
- Desirable: experience supporting Merlin, Wildcat, Chinook, Apache, or Poseidon platforms
- Desirable: MOD or Defence aviation background
- Desirable: stakeholder and supplier management experience
- Desirable: an engineering or aerospace qualification (HNC, HND, or degree)
Responsibilities
- Create and maintain GOLDesp reference data, ensuring its accuracy and integrity in support of airworthiness
- Support testing, releases, and incident resolution, and manage work orders
- Provide GOLDesp expertise throughout the acquisition lifecycle
- Assist with investigations into incidents affecting operational capability and airworthiness
- Collaborate with industry partners to manage service levels and client expectations, resolving conflicts as needed
- Maintain comprehensive evidence of data-quality checks, change approvals, and incident actions
Technologies
- Support
More
We are working with a client in Yeovil, Somerset, seeking an Aerospace Engineer to support airworthiness and reference data activities across key platforms, including Merlin, Wildcat, Chinook, Apache, and Poseidon. This contract role supports critical defence projects and is initially scheduled to run until 31 March 2027, with the possibility of extension. The flexible hybrid arrangement involves 1–2 days onsite, with working days typically 7.5 hours. The day rate is up to £440, inside IR35. In this role, you will help maintain and assure reference data integrity to support operational airworthiness across multiple platforms.
last updated 46 week of 2026