Senior Project Engineer

Date Posted:

2026-11-06Country:

United Kingdom

Location:

Plymouth, Plymouth

Position Role Type:

Onsite

Collins Aerospace, a Raytheon Technologies company, is a world leader in advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defence industries. With a comprehensive inertial sensing and integrated navigation technology portfolio and deep domain expertise, we deliver cutting-edge systems that solve our customers’ toughest stabilisation, flight control and navigation challenges and help shape the future of aviation and defence.

This is an onsite role based at our Plymouth site, where we design and manufacture control, navigation, and guidance systems for both air and surface applications. Our world-class products include MEMS-based Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) and the TERPROM® Digital Terrain Reference Navigation System.

Our growth plan includes development and extension of our current technologies into state of the art military and civil aircraft applications and we’re looking for exceptional engineers to join us on that journey.

What You Will Do

As a Project Engineer, you will play a key technical leadership role across new product development and current production programmes, supporting both existing business and future growth.

You will:

Act as a technical lead across the full project lifecycle, owning the technical vision and delivery

Work closely with discipline leads to deliver complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects

Serve as the customer’s technical focal point, managing technical delivery, change, and communication

Ensure projects are delivered to schedule, cost, and quality

Lead systems engineering activities, including requirements management and compliance

Provide technical input to planning, estimation, and project management

Support customer presentations, technical meetings, trials, and exhibitions

Contribute to bids and proposals, including resourcing and technical compliance

Translate customer requirements into technical specifications, solution development, and compliance tracking

Travel occasionally to UK and international customer sites for meetings, trials, and programme reviews

What You Will Learn

In this role, you’ll gain:

Deep exposure to cutting edge aerospace navigation and sensor technologies

Experience leading projects through the full product development lifecycle

Hands-on involvement in customer integration and aircraft systems

Insight into international collaboration across engineering teams

Opportunities to develop your technical leadership, stakeholder engagement, and systems engineering expertise

Access to world-class training, mentoring, and long-term career development pathways

Qualifications We Prefer

Essential

A strong technical background, with a 2:1 Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in Engineering or a closely related technical discipline such as Mathematics or Physics

Experience working within an engineering and/or manufacturing organisation

Ability to operate effectively in a technical environment, contributing to engineering delivery and problem-solving

A clear and confident communicator, able to work with customers, engineers, and project stakeholders

Desirable

Background or experience in Systems Engineering

Experience leading or coordinating project teams within an engineering environment

Exposure to sensor-based technologies, electronics, or complex technical systems

Experience working across multi-disciplinary engineering teams

What We Offer

Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package

Flexible working options

Excellent 2:1 matched pension (up to 10%)

Private health insurance and life assurance

25 days annual leave, plus the option to buy or sell up to 5 additional days

Early finish on Fridays

Structured career development, mentoring, and access to world-class training

And much more!

Learn More & Apply Now!

Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions — whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionised systems for specialised aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you’ll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customers succeed today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow. Are you up for the challenge? Join our mission today.

Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.

Note: The successful candidate must hold an active or be willing and eligible to obtain SC level security clearance. Please note that access to certain projects may be restricted based on nationality.

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