Pros
The younger engineers who are not in the consulting business are a delight to work with, The benefits, while not earth shattering, are quite good. Flexibility with hybrid working.
Cons
This is specific to the international business headquartered in the UK. The company is schizophrenic in nature and tried to combine two very different business models when there is no synergy. The managing director who was appointed had a history of making wrong decisions compared to the one who was displaced. The senior leadership who are appointed by the managing director are incompetent and did not have any understanding of how to run the business. They are surviving off work won by competent leaders who have resigned and have not been able to win any significant work for the last 15 months. Be prepared to hear plenty of talk but very little accountability and action. Talk matters more to the company than actual competence. Be prepared to be penalised for speaking the truth to the leadership. The senior managers appoint middle managers on the basis of old military relationships and not competence. Politically connected people are protected species who can do no wrong and everyone else gets blamed. There is a serious level of attrition from key positions in the last 12 months due to the senior leadership. This includes a key General Manager, Chief Test Pilot, Head of Aviation Operations, Head of Design, Chief of Office of Airworthiness, Procurement and Supply Chain Manager, Systems Integration Engineer, Head of People, Finance Director, Mechanical Design Team Lead, Avionics Supervisor, Airframe Supervisor, Fixed Wing Test Pilot, Quality and Environmental manager, Head of Digital Technologies Development, and more. The workload falls on the remaining people, half of which do not believe the leadership is competent based on the recent staff survey.
