# Design Airworthiness Engineer **Company**: TEKEVER **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: mid **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://careers.tekever.com/jobs/8665638-design-airworthiness-engineer?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_1e0b6dba-f5a ## Description TEKEVER is seeking a Design Airworthiness Engineer to join its growing UK Airworthiness team. The role involves providing regulatory approval for tactical uncrewed aircraft systems for international customers and UK Defence. The successful candidate will work with the Head of Airworthiness and alongside design, systems, and test engineers to define what each regulator requires and build the certification evidence that shows the aircraft meets it. **Key Responsibilities:** - Help define the certification basis and build compliance matrices against each regulator's UAS requirements, including the proposed means of compliance. - Contribute evidence to operational safety cases built on the SORA methodology. - Produce compliance evidence with design, systems, and test engineers, including analyses, compliance reports, test plans, and test reports. - Support the Head of Airworthiness in preparing submissions to civil and military aviation authorities and responding to their queries. - Keep certification records and status reporting accurate, so that progress and risk are visible to the programme. - Over time, take on certification work for further TEKEVER products and help improve how the team plans and delivers certification. - Over time, assess the airworthiness impact of design changes and support their classification. - Support TEKEVER's path towards design organisation approval, helping develop procedures, training, and internal audits. **Qualifications, Experience & Commitments:** - Essential: A degree or equivalent qualification in aeronautical, aerospace, mechanical, electrical/electronic or another relevant engineering discipline. - Essential: Typically 2+ years' experience in an aerospace engineering role, including hands-on certification or compliance work. - Essential: Understanding of how aircraft certification works, for example under UK or EASA Part 21. - Essential: Clear technical writing, with experience producing engineering or compliance documentation. - Preferred: Experience with uncrewed aircraft systems, including UK CAA requirements for UAS. - Preferred: Experience of SORA or specific-category UAS operational authorisations. - Preferred: Experience working within a design organisation, for example under an approved Part 21J organisation or MAA DAOS. - Preferred: Exposure to UK military airworthiness regulation (MAA Regulatory Publications). - Optional: Professional registration (CEng or IEng), or active progress towards it. - Security Vetting: Eligible to hold and willing to undergo the vetting process for UK SC level Security Clearance. - Travel: Willingness to undertake occasional national and international travel to TEKEVER sites (UK, Portugal, US, Europe) and to customers and regulators. **Skills & Attributes:** - Learns quickly and gets up to speed on a new product and regulatory context. - Methodical, with high attention to detail in requirements, traceability, and records. - Clear, precise writer, able to set out a compliance argument for engineers and regulators. - Takes ownership of tasks, works independently, and knows when to ask for guidance or escalate a risk. - Collaborative across disciplines, confident to ask design teams for evidence and to question it constructively. - Pragmatic, applying the right level of process for the risk. **What We Offer:** - Compensation & Financial Security: Highly competitive salary, plus a discretionary annual bonus. Company pension contribution matches up to 10% - Wellbeing & Leave: Private Medical Insurance, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), and 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays. Access to an Employee Reward, Recognition, and Benefits platform - Culture & Development: Join a talented, high-performing team in a vibrant, fun, and inclusive culture, with regular monthly social events. Our scale provides clear career development opportunities and support for professional growth - Working Model: Flexible Hybrid Working Model (minimum 3 days a week office working expected in core UK sites like Bristol) supporting work-life balance while ensuring mission success - Mission-Oriented Impact: Work on mission-critical, cutting-edge technology in the fields of Defence, Security, and Space For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - aeronautical engineering - aerospace engineering - mechanical engineering - electrical/electronic engineering - certification - compliance - technical writing ### Nice to have - uncrewed aircraft systems - UK CAA requirements for UAS - SORA - specific-category UAS operational authorisations - design organisation - UK military airworthiness regulation --- Source: [Apply at careers.tekever.com](https://careers.tekever.com/jobs/8665638-design-airworthiness-engineer?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)