Overview
Line Up Aviation is a specialist aviation and aerospace recruitment company with 35+ years of global operation. We are recruiting for a Process Engineer reporting to the Head of Safety, Airworthiness and Specialty Engineering for a global Defence client. This is a UK-based opportunity; you must have UK working rights at the time of application as sponsorship is not available. Location: Bristol or Yeovil (onsite). Employment Type: Contract, initially 6 months. Working time: Mon – Friday. Package: Competitive hourly rate inside IR35. Security: BPSS clearance required.
Responsibilities
Develop, maintain and govern engineering processes and their integration into the client's Process Model for current and future states, ensuring alignment across engineering value streams (develop & design, produce and support).
Partner with engineering departments to define process models, map processes to capabilities (e.g., SIPOCs), and maintain the process architecture, document trees and roadmaps.
Support compliance with Enterprise Governance and QMS/ISO/AS**** standards; support audits, gap analyses and KPIs, and drive corrective and preventive actions to improve process integrations.
Promote standardisation and continuous improvement: identify opportunities to harmonise processes, investigate issues/conflicts, and provide CI oversight.
Develop and maintain engineering process effectiveness strategy, providing guidance to departments and teams.
Produce and maintain process communications, training, onboarding materials and competency development to operationalise process strategies across technical teams.
Support Engineering Process Authority activities: support departmental leads,



the Engineering Process Council, working groups, and interface with QA to ensure engineering alignment (occurrences, NCRs, findings, audits).
Support oversight and governance of Technical Design Reviews (TDRs).
Support development of strategies for design practice integration into programmes/products and ensure Design Practice developments and integrations align with established client practices.
Qualifications and Skills
Solid process engineering and governance understanding, including developing/documenting engineering processes, applying process management governance to integrated systems, supporting audits, performing gap/root-cause analyses within QMS CAPA processes, defining KPIs/metrics, and understanding change management principles.
Practical systems engineering lifecycle experience across Development, Design, Production, Support, and Maintenance, including scalable V-model execution, gate review controls, and engineering release.
Knowledge and experience of PLM, ERP and MOM system integrations, and digital artefacts flow and traceability.
Standards and regulatory knowledge: familiarity with ISO **** and AS**** requirements for engineering QMS, and UK military/defence frameworks (e.g., DEF STAN, JSP) and their intersection with aerospace/defence standards.
MBSE (preferred): understanding of MBSE principles and modelling (e.g., SysML) to manage requirements, architecture and verification, and experience mapping process systems into MBSE architectures to assess model integrity and model-to-requirement traceability.
UK right to live and work in the UK (no sponsorship); ability to obtain BPSS clearance as required.
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📌 Process Engineer - Defence (Sydney)
🏢 Line Up Aviation
📍 Sydney