46 Aviation jobs in London

• You will be responsible for supporting/maintaining Quality Assurance System data
• 8D responses: Customer liaison for all quality related issues/queries and lead root cause analysis (RCA) and assist in implementation of corrective/preventative actions for nonconformities with effective analytical and problem-solving resolution.
• Completion of First Article Inspection Reports
• Fault trend analysis
• Creation of quality metrics and KPIs
• Working closely with Sales teams, along with Distribution center personnel
• Support new business activity working with Sales team
• Participating in Continuous Improvements projects as required
• Ensure adherence to customer requirements, standards and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Monitor the effectiveness of the QMS and recommend enhancements.
• Prepare for and facilitate customer audits, document audit findings and oversee corrective and preventive actions.
• Analyze processes to identify opportunities for improvement and ensure consistent quality.
• Work with customers/suppliers directly in a courteous and professional manner
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet Customer and regulatory expectations
• Generate reports on KPIs and quality metrics

• You have minimum of 3 years experience in a Quality Management role, in the Aerospace & Defense industry
• Experience and knowledge of AS9100/9120 standards and quality management principles
• Strong knowledge of aerospace industry regulations and requirements
• Familiarity with quality tools such as FMEA, SPC, CAPA, 5 Whys, Fishbone Diagrams

• Competitive and attractive employee compensation package
• Reliable & trusting work environment
• Cooperative team with flat structures and communication
• Professional and personal development

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Fuels & Low Carbon Technology (F&LCT) is a diverse team of over 300 technologists, scientists, and engineers driving innovation to support bp’s Fuels, Refining, Bioenergy, and Hydrogen businesses. We also back the Technology group through Innovation Management, Modelling, Digital Science, and academic research. Within F&LCT, the Refining and Advanced Fuels Technology (R&AFT) team of 120+ professionals collaborate closely with business units to ensure fuel quality throughout the entire supply chain—from refineries and third-party suppliers to customers and product lines. As the fuel landscape evolves towards the energy transition, we develop differentiated fuel products, including an increasing portfolio of bio-based fuels, and lead technical programs to safely integrate renewable feedstocks into refinery operations.

We are excited to offer the position of Aviation Quality Manager . In this role, you will lead a team of Aviation Fuel Technologists overseeing Product Quality (PQ) and Research & Development efforts covering conventional and low carbon renewable aviation fuels. Your focus will be on compliance, customer-centric quality assurance, and advancing innovative, sustainable fuel solutions. You will report directly to the Senior Manager of Global Aviation & Product Quality Assurance.

As Aviation Quality Manager, you will be a key member of a global team responsible for ensuring that aviation fuel meets stringent quality and safety standards from manufacture to aircraft wingtip. You will lead your team in collaborating with Technology and Business groups to maintain fuel quality across worldwide supply chains and support bp’s net zero goals through R&D initiatives.

Accountabilities will include:

Technical Services and Quality Assurance:

• Management and implementation of product quality (PQ) standards, policies & procedures for operations in all Aviation & bp performance units to ensure compliance with bp and industry regulations.
• Manage PQ problem resolution across the supply chain, by supporting global PQ technologists and authorities in all aspects of aviation fuel quality assurance and control.
• Manage and oversee quality assurance, through periodic global monitoring plan assessments including inspections of supply locations, laboratories, and operational sites to verify conformance with standards and procedures, performance reporting and root cause analysis.
• Liaise with bp & 3rd party refineries, pipelines, shipping, supply, and logistic groups to coordinate and implement aviation fuel quality initiatives and fuel specification changes.
• Development and maintenance of PQ training materials, providing global PQ training to all relevant bp business units and or 3rd parties as required.
• Lead and contribute to the Product Quality Network (PQN) to discuss PQ issues, share lessons learned and coordinate implementation of new initiatives across R&AFT and C&P Aviation.
• Management of PQ incident database, review of PQ incident trends, providing trend & emerging risk data to relevant internal PQ forums.
• Represent bp in external technical bodies (e.g., EI JIG, ASTM, AFC Exco) where specification and product handling issues are debated, ensuring bp are aware of impacts & changes.

Customer Differentiation:

• Leading C&P Aviation PQ Technical Service Agreements (TSA’s)
• Approval of new supply sources for conventional and renewable aviation fuel.
• Digital applications, lead in the simplification and improvements to e.g., assessment inspection and incident reporting.

Realising bp net zero ambitions:

• Lead in P&O bp refineries in SAF production via coprocessing.
• Lead in the participation of SAF Standalone Unit project, providing technical support for SAF production compliance & optimisation.
• Lead and influence in R&D activities to review new technology pathways, advanced feedstocks, and potential changes to Aviation industry specifications.
• Lead in providing technical support to T&S in SAF blending, product handling and supply.
• Keep a view on H2 and Electric Aviation technology development.

What You’ll Need to Succeed:

• Degree-qualified in Science or Engineering, preferably Chemistry or Process/Chemical Engineering.
• Expertise in petroleum fuels or the aviation industry, including fuel manufacture, distribution, engine use, laboratory testing, and quality assurance.
• Strong communication skills with an empathetic and collaborative approach.
• Proven ability to influence, solve problems under pressure, and drive change.
• Experience writing technical documentation and working within agile frameworks is a plus.
• Highly organized, with a bias for action and the ability to work cross-functionally across Technology, C&P, P&O, and ST&S teams.

This role provides exposure to the Technology, C&P, P&O and ST&S, providing the opportunity to create new networks, exposure to renewable fuels and support bp safety leadership principles through product quality compliance.

Why join our team?

At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others.

We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and many others benefits.

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future.

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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please  contact us .

If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.

You'll be analysing a comprehensive engineering data set relating to aerospace components and mechanisms to determine trends in areas such as failure rates, test reports and repair reports.

Your output will be reports on anomalies, trends and forecast models on predicted failures over a wide range of time-lines

The reward is making a major contribution to improving safety, quality and reliability of engineering devices, resulting in great customer satisfaction

You'll need a degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering combined with commercial work experience in engineering data analysis using modelling tools such as Power BI, advanced Excel and ML

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Disassembly Technician

Job Type: Full time, Variable Days

Start Date: ASAP

Duration: Permanent

Location: Hayes, London

Salary: Up to 30,807.13

Sector: Aerospace

• Disassemble customer landing gears to a high standard and without causing damage to any individual components.
• Working with the team to meet department schedule deadlines.
• Preparing parts for next operation ensuring parts are correctly identified and presented in a manner where damages will not occur.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Disassemble customer landing gears I.A.W the manufacturer instructions (CMM).
• Avoid additional damage and work with team to communicate required improvements to tooling and processes.
• Work to tight deadlines.
• Control of personal and company tools.
• Awareness and understanding of the computer-based MOE (IQMove).
• Uphold housekeeping standards.
• Report to Leading Hand / Team Leader if damage occurs so that improvements can be investigated.
• Embrace an open reporting culture.
• Participate and contribute to team dialog meetings.
• Carry out missing and damaged inspections.

Qualifications, Experience and Attributes Required:

• Equivalent to GCSE A-C grades
• It would be advantageous but not essential that the applicant would have served an apprenticeship. within a mechanical assembly / disassembly environment.
• Illustrate previous knowledge and experience of use of hand tools.
• Good knowledge, awareness and understanding of PPE.
• Previous use of overhead cranes and forklifts would be preferable.
• It would be preferable but not essential for the applicant to have worked in an aerospace environment.
• Great team player, Good communicator, Punctual and reliable.
• Honest and trustworthy.
• Ability to work under own initiative.
• Able to follow instruction and learn / absorb working methods.
• Excellent approach to Quality, Health, and safety.
• Good manual dexterity.

Working Conditions:

• The position requires from time to time flexibility in working hours including working overtime at weekends.
• The nature of the job requires the applicant to come into contact with various greases and oils.
• The position involves the training and use of overhead cranes.

Compliance and Onboarding:

• Candidate must have the right to live and work in the UK unrestricted.
• Mandatory Training will be required.
• The job requires the applicant to stand for a prolonged amount of time with a number of breaks throughout the day.
• The position and process involves lifting heavy aircraft components.
• The position requires the applicant to disassemble large components requiring good physical strength.

Benefits of the Role:

• Competitive Salary Package
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Discounted Flight Benefits
• Reduced Gym memberships Retail and Hotel Discounts
• Seasonal Company Events

About us:

Daniel Owen is an established recruitment consultancy specialising in the placement of quality temporary and permanent workers to all roles in the Built Environment. Working with some of the UK's largest and most respected construction, maintenance, and engineering companies.

If you are interested in hearing more about the Disassembly Technician role, please contact Josh on (phone number removed).

Brazer TIG Welder Fabricator – Fabrication of Aircraft Parts

Your precision technical production skills will be used to join sheet metal and precision mechanical components to produce life saving equipment for aircraft.

Each project is different, so this is varied and interesting opportunity, a world away from a repetitive welding job.

You’ll need to follow Technical Assembly diagrams, undertake mainly brazing with a small amount of aluminium TIG welding

Also you'll be putting together prefabricated and pre-machined metal components, hydraulic hoses, attaching electric motors, connecting cable assemblies and undertaking basic test checks.

Mechanical Apprenticeship or Time served background in Engineering or brazing with work experience in an industrial assembly environment.

This company is really busy with lots of overtime and promotional prospects, subsidised restaurant, spotless workshop conditions, paternity pay and discounted supermarket vouchers

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About the Company:
Our client is a well-established and forward-thinking aerospace manufacturer renowned for delivering high-quality, precision-engineered components to global aerospace and defence markets. Their commitment to AS9100 standards , continuous improvement, and supplier collaboration has positioned them as a trusted partner in the aerospace industry.

The Opportunity:
We’re seeking a proactive and driven Supplier Quality Engineer with AS9100 auditing experience to join a high-performing Quality team. This role is critical in ensuring supplier compliance within the stringent regulatory and quality frameworks of the aerospace sector. You’ll play a key part in improving supplier performance, managing audits, and supporting robust and traceable supply chain processes.

• Build and maintain strong supplier relationships to drive consistent quality, reliability, and AS9100 compliance.

• Plan and conduct AS9100 supplier audits , assessments, and evaluations to ensure full adherence to aerospace quality standards.

• Investigate supplier non-conformances and lead effective root cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions (RCCA) .

• Support supplier onboarding, qualification, and approval processes in line with aerospace quality and documentation requirements.

• Collaborate with engineering, procurement, and production teams to support product integrity and supplier development.

• Identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives across the aerospace supply chain to enhance quality and performance.

• Proven experience in a Supplier Quality, Quality Engineering , or related role within an aerospace manufacturing environment .

• Certified or demonstrable experience in AS9100 auditing , with deep understanding of aerospace quality management systems.

• Strong knowledge of quality tools and methodologies: 8D, RCCA, FMEA, APQP, PPAP, and control plans .

• Comfortable working with both local and international aerospace suppliers.

• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills with a focus on precision and compliance.

• Technical or engineering background desirable (HNC/HND/Degree preferred).

• Join a collaborative, forward-thinking environment focused on aerospace innovation and quality excellence.

• Opportunities to work on technically interesting and safety-critical projects for major aerospace clients.

• Ongoing professional development, with clear pathways for career progression.

• Competitive salary and benefits package.

HIT 'APPLY NOW' to take the next step in your aerospace quality career.

You'll be responsible for driving change across systems, mechanical and engineering design teams within this highly successful aerospace engineering company

This requires an energising and challenging maverick not afraid of questioning well established and proven practices of long standing technical experts

You need a proven track record of managing technical staff through changes, capable of shaping teams into new ways of thinking to solve ever greater technical challenges in an aerospace environment

Your academic background will be in mechanical, aerospace engineering or similar technical subject and probably Chartered

Above all, you need to be an energising leader of people.

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Manufacturing Engineer

Job Type: Aerospace

Start Date: Flexible

Duration: Permanent

Location: Hayes, London

Salary: From 28,898 (Negotiable)

Pattern: Shifts

Our client is an industry leading aerospace company, with a global brand and customer database that is focused on excellence and the highest safety standards. They are looking for a skilled and detail-oriented Manufacturing Engineer, with a practical mindset, a strong passion for aviation and the strive to produce revolutionary products at the forefront of the role. With the ability to work with cutting edge technology and contribute to the sustainable positive change within the aerospace industry, this job is the ideal opportunity to grow your career to the heights you desire.

Responsibilities:

• Create and produce manufacturing work instructions and documentation.
• Liaise and interact with various teams such as operations, IT and tooling to ensure seamless project implementation.
• Explore and initiate new processes, methods and layouts, allowing more equipment flexibility and improving throughput.
• Analyse and report on parameters such as production processes, methods, cycle time, schedules and waste management amongst others.
• Coordinating maintenance and repair to keep production equipment operational and in service.
• Support the TPM with structured problem solving projects linked to project deliverables and day-to-day manufacturing issues.

Essential skills, knowledge and experience:

• Minimum qualification HND in mechanical discipline.
• Extensive CAD experience/proficiency.
• Training in Lean manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, and Statistical Process Control is beneficial.
• Ability to read engineering drawings and basic metrology skills.
• Previous experience producing manufacturing work documentation and instructions.
• Experience in metal component processing, including surface finishing for aerospace components.
• Exceptional IT Knowledge and software understanding (SolidWorks/MS Office etc.)
• Great communication skills and ability to break down technical information for a non-technical audience.
• Right to live and work in the UK.

Benefits of the Quantity Surveyor Role:

• Competitive salary.
• Strong career development and opportunities to progress.
• Skill development.
• Bonuses and incentives.
• Paid time off.
• Retirement and financial benefits.

About us:

Daniel Owen is an established recruitment consultancy specialising in the placement of quality temporary and permanent workers to all roles in the Built Environment. Working with some of the UK's largest and most respected construction, maintenance, and engineering companies.

If you are interested in hearing more about the Manufacturing Engineer role, please contact Josh on (phone number removed).

Freightserve recruitment are looking for a Night Shift Aerospace Operatorfor a Freight Forwarder. The company is based in the Heathrow area.

Duties:-

• Dealing with all Aerospace export shipments (start to finish)

• Completing all Air Export documentation

• Customs entries

• Dealing with Airlines and Handling agents

• Track and Trace all Time sensitive shipments

• Customer Services (Highest level)

• Work closely with Internal departments including; Transport and Warehouse

Knowledge Needed:-

• Air Export experience

• Customs entry knowledge

Working hours are 4 nights on 4 nights off 7pm - 7am or 6pm - 6am

As an agency we are fast becoming the number one Freight specialist in the UK. We have a fast growing reputation with most Freight related companies. Freightserve has been established since 1992 working within the Freight Forwarding and Shipping industry.