Senior V&V Engineering Manager

Vertical Aerospace

Our Mission At Vertical Aerospace, we are pioneering the way for electric aviation. The Valo, our eVTOL (electric, vertical, take-off and landing), 'zero emissions' aircraft will set a new safety standard for how we will navigate the sky. We won't realise our mission following the same legacy processes and traditions our predecessors followed, instead, we want to 'redefine' aerospace best practices. We are growing quickly from a prototype business to a scaling SME, and the next few years will be critical to our success and delivering on our ambitious goals. Valo is targeting airliner-level safety certification in 2029 ahead of entering service with our airline and operator customers. What to expect As our Senior Project Certification Manager, you’ll lead the certification programme from the early stages of design all the way through to type certification. You will be the key liaison between engineering, suppliers, and regulatory authorities globally. Reporting to our Head of Airworthiness, you will play a key part in our certification efforts as we seek to certify the novel Valo design. What you'll do * Defining the certification basis and means of compliance, negotiating with civil aviation authorities * Leading development of certification plans, test proposals, verification/validation (V&V) strategy, and inspection & qualification campaigns. * Ensuring compliance in all technical domains (software, hardware, structural, systems, interiors, propulsion) with industry standards and regulations. * Managing physical inspections, flight tests, environmental tests and other verification activities. * Overseeing configuration management, design changes, and maintaining traceability of certification requirements. * Leading and mentoring a team of certification, compliance, and technical specialists. * Proactively identifying risks, resolving threats to schedule, and could-be obstacles to certification. * Collaborating with suppliers to ensure their parts, processes and documentation satisfy certification requirements. * Supporting continued airworthiness post-certification and managing modifications or changes. What you'll bring * 10+ years of experience in aircraft type certification or major modification/STC/major regulatory engagements in aerospace, preferably with highly regulated domains. * Strong foundation in regulatory/airworthiness standards (e.g. equivalent to CS/FAR Part 23/25/27/29 or their global analogues), software & hardware compliance standards (DO-178C / DO-254), environmental qualification (DO-160 or equivalent), and systems safety & reliability (ARP4754A, ARP4761 or equivalents). * Proven experience in interacting with aviation authorities internationally, negotiating technical requirements/methods of compliance, and delivering projects through audit or authority review. * Leadership & management experience: building teams, mentoring engineers, managing cross-disciplinary stakeholder interfaces. * Strong project planning, risk management, configuration control, and problem-solving skills. * Excellent communication: able to translate complex technical/certification issues into program-level strategy and reports. * Adaptability, bias for action, and able to thrive in fast-paced aerospace R&D / certification environment. What can you expect from us? We're on a mission. Where others see limits, we see opportunity, and we work at pace. Working at Vertical isn't your average role but for those seeking a challenge, a flexible, supportive organisation and an incredible team; working here is an opportunity to do the best work of your career. Our approach promotes ingenuity and courage, while our environment builds success through diligence in safety and being open in the way we work. The only way we're going to assure the next chapter of aviation history is by working as a team, relentlessly, towards our goal.  Our benefits Our people matter - we're not going anywhere without them. Which is why our company benefits go beyond the essentials. * 26 days holiday, plus bank holiday * 5 extra days per year to buy (or sell) * 5 extra days holiday when you get married or enter a civil partnership * Additional 4% of your salary to spend on extra benefits * Award-winning digital health and wellbeing service (Help@Hand) * Company performance based bonus - rewarding company and individual performance * Company Share Scheme - open to every Vertical employee * Company Pension Scheme - 5% and we match it * Breakfast on us, every day We may just be the hardest job you've ever had, but we're confident it will be the most rewarding. Join the team today and help us shape the future of Advanced Air Mobility. Disclaimer Statement We encourage you to apply even if you may not have all the experience listed in the advert. We recognise that talent comes in various forms and we are committed to providing opportunities that create an environment of growth, diversity, and inclusion for everyone. As part of our desire to review and make our processes fair, we may ask you questions related to these aspects during the application process. For more information on how we will use your data, see our Legal section.

Graphcore

About Graphcore  How often do you get the chance to build a technology that transforms the future of humanity?  At Graphcore, we’re building the future of AI compute.We’re a team of semiconductor, software and AI experts, with deep experience in creating the complete AI compute stack - from silicon and software to infrastructure at datacenter scale. As part of the SoftBank Group, backed by significant long-term investment, we are delivering key technology into the fast-growing SoftBank AI ecosystem.To meet the vast and exciting AI opportunity, Graphcore is expanding its teams around the world.We are bringing together the brightest minds to solve the toughest problems, in a place where everyone has the opportunity to make an impact on the company, our products and the future of artificial intelligence.   Job Summary   We are looking for a Senior Network Engineer to join our Cloud Platform Team and help develop and deploy clouds and services. Working closely with our colleagues in Software Platform, Datacentre Operations and Product Development teams, you will deploy services onour fleet of cutting-edge AI systems. As part of our Software Platform organisation, you will be involved in the cloud integration, validation, performance benchmarking, optimisation, and development of our high-performance AI solutions.  These include in-house AI systems alongside off-the-shelf high-performance servers, switches and storage solutions.  This is a hand-on technical role requiring a solid background in the use of cloud infrastructure, deployment using Infrastructure-as-Code, observability, high-performance networkingand storage systems.  You may have been working in an IT organisation, a datacentre, a cloud provider or as a developer of orchestration or cloud services.      The Software Platform team at Graphcore  We build Graphcore products into large-scale AI solutions for our customers and the Cloud Platform Team is responsible for providing such systems to both internal users via private clouds and customers via our own public clouds.  Often the internal systems will be using and developing pre-release hardware and software, so it’s vital you are comfortable with unproven components.    Responsibilities and Duties    * Develop and operate high-performance ethernet infrastructure on our private clouds and support internal users in their use. You will turn end-user and product requirements into deployed services.  * Help to build automation to collect and analyse metrics and other data from the network infrastructure to support clear identification and reporting of any issues.  Work with users to provide information of any product-related issues to Engineering and QA departments.  * Work with our Datacentre Operations Engineers to maintain, tune and operate the fleet of AI systems at peak performance in our private clouds.  * Work with external vendors of off-the-shelf switches, servers and storage solutions to integrate 3rd party products into our Cloud Reference Design, with a focus on network performance, automation and resilience.    Skills and Experience (all required)  * Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant subject.  * Significant hands-on experience with 1 or more vendor’s high-end (100Gb/s+) ethernet switch solutions.  * Experience managing on-premises or private-cloud environments.   * Solid software engineering or IT experience with a proven track record of delivering technical output as an individual contributor.  * Experience working in an AGILE and SCRUM framework, including understanding of priorities, risks, issues, impacts and constraints.   * Strong proven Linux scripting ability (bash, python, awk, sed).  * Strong proven Linux system administration (Ubuntu, RHEL and variants).  * Experience with a version control system (preferably Git) and using it to manage system configuration or automation.  * Experience with Continuous Integration or testing pipelines using GitLab, GitHub or similar.  * A solid hands-on understanding of the technologies underpinning cloud services (APIs, virtualisation of CPUs, IO, systems) and how they relate to high-performance networking.  * Experience with IAC automation tools (Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible).  * Experience with container deployment and management tools (e.g. docker).  * Experience with solutions for monitoring and observability. e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, OpenSearch/ElasticSearch, Loki.   * Good communication and presentation skills, and experience dealing with end-users of IT services.  * An ability to work independently on critical infrastructure with minimal oversight, and with a focus on end-user availability.     Desirable but not required:  * Experience with Openstack cloud platforms.  * Experience with High Performance Computing (HPC) environments using SLURM or similar batch workload solutions.  * Experience with hardware offloading on RDMA-capable NICs and how that integrates with virtual networking on Open V-switch, KVM/QEMU.  * Experience with managing production Kubernetes clusters and workloads with an automation tool such as ArgoCD.    Benefits In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working, a generous annual leave policy, private medical insurance and health cash plan, a dental plan, pension (matched up to 5%), life assurance and income protection. We have a generous parental leave policy and an employee assistance programme (which includes health, mental wellbeing, and bereavement support). We offer a range of healthy food and snacks at our central Bristol office and have our own barista bar! We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we’re committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone. We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us. We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments.   Sponsorship Applicants for this position must hold the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately at this time, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship or support for visa applications.

Cooper Moss Rutland

🌟 Position: Senior Planner (SC Cleared)🌟 📍 Location: Hybrid / Bristol 💼 Type: Full-time 📅 Start Date: Immediate 💰 Salary: Competitive We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Planner to join our dynamic award winning team who has experience in the construction industry, knowledge of project management and project controls to help support our expansion across the UK. Our team is multi-disciplinary so a wide range of experience and/or willingness to learn is crucial. About us: CMR is an award winning project controls consultancy that is first and foremost a team of people, passionate about the construction industry and changing the way project controls is provided. Our approach and culture have been recognised globally, with CMR named Global Project Controls Small Business of the Year 2025 (Project Controls Expo UK Awards) and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces in 2026 (Great Place to Work) Our Purpose (Why we exist): Inspiring new ways to help shape our construction industry. Our Ambition (What we want to achieve): Re-imagine project controls through a digital lens, being the obvious choice for clients and the place to grow together with intention. What’s in it for you? * At CMR you will have the opportunity to professionally develop like nowhere you have worked before. * If you demonstrate the capability, our merit based system will enable you to develop fast. * We use our in-house capability matrix to transparently track your progression and highlight development areas. * Join our small, dynamic team where every member has the chance to make a significant impact, shaping the future direction of our company and making a real difference. * We believe in rewarding our team for their achievements, celebrating our successes but equally helping each other when things are tough. 🔹 You’ll * Develop and maintain robust, realistic and defensible construction schedules. * Develop schedule estimates for construction works, ensuring they are aligned to the project scope, delivery strategy and key assumptions. * Define the Basis of Estimate for the construction schedule scope, including key assumptions, exclusions and constraints. * Support planning leadership across the programme, ensuring schedule quality, logic, integration and governance are maintained. * Work closely with Cost and Risk Management teams to ensure alignment of all estimates, assumptions and schedule impacts. * Work with the Risk team to support the QSRA process. * Identify and manage key internal and external interfaces including procurement, consents, dependent projects and delivery milestones. * Work closely with key internal/external stakeholders ensuring buy-in to the Programme’s construction schedule. * Review supplier and contractor schedules, challenging logic, assumptions, progress and deliverability where required. * Ensure schedule estimates are validated through the use of benchmark data, design information and BIM. 🔹 Essential * Experience in a construction or infrastructure environment. * Solid scheduling expertise, including Primavera P6. * Previous experience operating at Senior Planner level or as a planning professional with responsibility for schedule ownership and coordination. * Strong MS Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint). * Confidence building schedules from first principles and reviewing supplier submissions. * Understanding of schedule hierarchy, integration, governance and change control. * Familiarity with NEC or FIDIC contracts. * Strong communication and presentation skills, with a collaborative mindset. * Ability to support planning discussions with internal teams, clients, suppliers and key stakeholders. * A proactive approach to problem-solving and continuous improvement. 🔹 Desirable * Degree or equivalent in construction, engineering, project management, or related field. * Knowledge of QSRA, design processes, and CDM. * Experience in stakeholder management. * Membership of APM, AACE, PMI or similar. * Experience using Power BI and other reporting/analytics tools. 🔹 At CMR we have a strong culture driven by our 9 Core Principles. We look to build a community of people that share our values and ambitions. We’re proud that 96% of our team say CMR is a “Great Place to Work” a reflection of our supportive culture, focus on people, and drive to do things differently. 👉 Learn more here: https://cmr.london/who-we-are/ 📍 Requirements and Location: * Prior SC clearance is required * Bristol / Hybrid working: 2 days a week on site ➡️ Next Steps To apply to our vacancy please submit a copy of your CV for consideration. We look forward to hearing from you! CMR welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce. CMR is Disability Confident Committed and an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or disability or any other protected characteristics. We aim to create a culture where everyone can be themselves and is valued for their strengths and unique perspectives.