Aerospace Engineer — GOLDesp Reference Data

Overview

Whiteflare is seeking an experienced Aerospace Engineer with significant practical GOLDesp experience to support MOD delivery teams. You will create, manage and maintain GOLDesp reference data, preserving data integrity and supporting airworthiness across Merlin, Wildcat, Chinook, Apache and Poseidon platforms.

This contract opportunity is suited to a specialist who can combine strong reference-data control with practical support to testing, releases and operational incidents.

Specific job skills

You will support testing and release activity, resolve pending work orders and provide expert GOLDesp advice throughout the acquisition cycle. Working with the Engineering Application Manager (Air), you will assist with incidents affecting airworthiness or operational capability and liaise with industry partners on service levels, customer expectations and conflict resolution.

You will maintain evidence of data-quality checks, approved reference-data changes, test and release support, work-order closure and incident actions, ensuring assigned issues are resolved or formally managed.

You will be on site at Yeovilton 1 or 2 days per week

Essential skills and experience

• Significant practical GOLDesp application experience.
• Strong understanding of reference-data control, data integrity and airworthiness support.
• Experience supporting testing, releases, work-order resolution and incident management.
• Ability to provide specialist advice and support industry liaison, service-level management and customer-expectation management.

Desired skills and experience

GOLDesp experience at Aircraft Custodian level.

Eligibility Checks

Candidates must be SC cleared UK nationals.

Please note: We cannot accept any applications from candidates currently working on the Aurora framework unless the contract is due to finish within the next month.