Project Engineering Lead


Company:	P+S Personnel Services Ltd
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Milton Keynes
Working pattern:	On-site
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	15 Sept 2026
Closing date:	15 Oct 2026

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Summary

Role Summary:

This role is pivotal in leading the design, development, and delivery of high-reliability electronic systems for aerospace and aviation applications. You will combine strong technical expertise in electronics with leadership responsibility, guiding a team of RF and electronic engineers while ensuring robust, innovative, and manufacturable solutions are delivered across the full product lifecycle

Main Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and development of electronic hardware, covering digital, analogue, and mixed-signal systems.

• Define system and hardware architectures in accordance with relevant aviation standards and regulatory requirements, including DO-254.

• Manage the complete hardware development lifecycle, from requirements definition and design through verification, validation, and certification support.

• Ensure hardware designs satisfy requirements for performance, safety, reliability, manufacturability, and environmental compliance.

• Provide technical leadership and engineering authority across projects, contributing to formal design reviews and technical governance activities, including PDR, CDR, and TRR.

• Lead engineering project delivery, including planning, resource management, risk mitigation, and delivery against agreed schedules.

• Work closely with multidisciplinary teams across systems, mechanical, manufacturing, quality, and related engineering functions.

• Support new product introduction activities, helping ensure an effective transition from engineering design into production.

• Lead and manage engineers and technicians, providing technical guidance, coaching, mentoring, and performance management.

• Support business development activities, including bids and proposals, technical solution development, cost estimation, and risk assessment.

• Build and maintain effective technical relationships with customers and external partners, ensuring requirements and expectations are clearly understood.

• Promote continuous improvement across engineering processes, design methodologies, tools, and working

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