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TRIUMPH

Lead Systems Engineer

TRIUMPH

Lead Systems Engineer responsible for defining and integrating aerospace control systems at TRIUMPH. Overseeing project requirements and supplier management in a secure defense environment.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeGloucester • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead system-level requirements definition, traceability, and validation, ensuring alignment with customer needs and regulatory expectations.
  • Define system boundaries, operational concepts, and architectural frameworks for actuation and control systems.
  • Own the creation and control of system architectures, functional models, and interface definitions across mechanical, software, and electronics.
  • Development of complex control systems within a secure and highly regulated defense environment.
  • Provide technical oversight for the design and development actuation systems, including the integration of motors, braking mechanisms, sensors, solenoid, control electronics and other components.
  • Guide multi-disciplinary engineering teams to ensure cohesive system integration and design consistency.
  • Drive system-level trade studies, risk assessments, and decision-making; act as the technical authority for systems decisions and provide technical direction for functional SME’s for key programme decisions.
  • Lead and influence supplier engineering teams; review and approve supplier analyses, design outputs, qualification evidence, and change proposals.
  • Conduct high-rigor supplier design reviews, focusing on interface control, architecture compliance, safety, and certification alignment.
  • Own the system integration strategy, ensuring elements integrate with accuracy and controlled interfaces.
  • Resolve complex system-interaction issues, supporting manufacturing and platform-level integration.
  • Oversee system-level V&V strategies, ensuring rigorous compliance with aerospace and military standards.
  • Review and approve supplier test evidence and safety analyses.
  • Support flight test, production, and in-service investigations; lead root-cause analyses and corrective actions.
  • Champion continuous improvement of systems engineering processes and tools.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical/Mechatronics, or Systems Engineering.
  • Proven experience of setting up and operating requirements management tools (DOORS / Siemens Polarion / Yama or equivalent)
  • Extensive engineering experience with aerospace actuation systems or high-integrity systems.
  • Deep understanding of systems engineering, architecture definition, integration, and V&V.
  • Proven experience leading supplier technical activities.
  • Competence interpreting engineering drawings and interface specifications.
  • Evidence of delivering programmes in accordance with DO-178 and DO-254 requirements.
  • Ability to lead complex engineering activities independently.
  • Candidate must be a UK national, capable of attaining BPSS and SC clearances.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Health, Safety, and Welfare of employees
  • Compliance with EHS policy training and instructions
  • Reasonable accommodations via HRDepartment@triumphgroup.com

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Hard Skills & Tools
requirements definitionsystem architecturecontrol systems developmentsystem integrationrisk assessmentssupplier design reviewsV&V strategiesengineering drawing interpretationDO-178 complianceDO-254 compliance
Soft Skills
leadershiptechnical oversightteam collaborationdecision-makingproblem-solvingcontinuous improvementcommunication
Certifications
BPSS clearanceSC clearance