Aerospace Design Integrator

Design Integrator

Location: Broughton, North Wales (Onsite)
Hours: 35 hours per week | 4.5-day working week
Security Clearance: BPSS+ (completed by Airbus Security)
Pay Rate:

Design Engineers: £34.39 PAYE / £46.00 Umbrella per hour
Design Approvers: £38.88 PAYE / £52.00 Umbrella per hourShape the Future of Aircraft Development

Guidant Global is recruiting on behalf of Airbus for an experienced Design Integrator to join the Wing Plant Engineering Team in Broughton.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in supporting continuous product development and incremental improvements across Airbus wide-body aircraft programmes. Working at the interface between Engineering and Operations, you will drive improvement projects from concept through to delivery, helping to enhance product quality, manufacturing efficiency, and customer outcomes.

If you enjoy combining technical expertise with project leadership and stakeholder engagement, this could be the ideal next step in your career.

The Opportunity

As a Design Integrator, you will act as a central link between engineering functions, operational teams, and key stakeholders across the business. You'll be responsible for coordinating and delivering improvement projects, ensuring technical solutions are practical, effective, and aligned with operational requirements.

Success in this role will come from your ability to build strong relationships, manage multiple priorities, and drive projects forward in a complex engineering environment.

Key Responsibilities

Lead and coordinate engineering improvement projects through the Airbus improvement process.
Act as the primary interface between Engineering and Operations, ensuring effective collaboration and co-design solutions.
Support technical design investigations and continuous improvement initiatives.
Manage the development and implementation of design improvements with operational teams and engineering partners.
Oversee project delivery, ensuring objectives are achieved on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.
Drive improvements that reduce recurring and non-recurring costs, operational disruption, and non-conformances.
Provide regular updates to stakeholders and manage changes to project plans where required.
Support initiatives that improve team capability, efficiency, processes, and ways of working.
Promote collaboration across functions, including Manufacturing Engineering and other key business areas.What We're Looking For

We're interested in hearing from candidates who have a strong engineering background combined with proven project management capability.

Essential Skills & Experience

Design engineering experience within aerospace, manufacturing, or a similarly complex engineering environment.
Strong project management and delivery experience.
Ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders and influence across teams.
Experience working closely with both engineering and operational functions.
Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
Strong problem-solving capability and a proactive approach to challenges.
Ability to work independently while contributing effectively within a wider team.
Experience managing risks, opportunities, and competing priorities.
Demonstrable focus on delivering results against time, cost, and quality objectives.Highly Desirable

Experience within the aerospace sector.
Understanding of aircraft product development, industrialisation, or manufacturing environments.
Experience leading continuous improvement or engineering change projects.Why Join Airbus Through Guidant Global?

This role offers the chance to work on industry-leading aerospace programmes while developing both your technical and leadership capabilities.
You'll have the opportunity to:

Work on high-profile aircraft development and improvement projects.
Influence design and operational decisions that deliver tangible business value.
Collaborate with highly experienced engineering and manufacturing professionals.
Build your project management, stakeholder engagement, and leadership skills.
Join a supportive team environment focused on innovation and continuous improvement.
Access paid overtime opportunities where applicable.Inclusive Recruitment

At Guidant Global, we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals, regardless of background, and encourage candidates with transferable skills and experience to apply.

If you're a design engineering professional with strong project management experience and a passion for driving improvement, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply today and help shape the future of aerospace innovation.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy