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Job Title: Engineering Manager –Aerospace Composites

Role Purpose

The Engineering Manager leads a multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for delivering high‑quality structural composite and consumable material kit solutions to major aerospace manufacturers worldwide. The role ensures excellence across bid development, NPI, NPD, manufacturing engineering, and technology onboarding, while fostering a high‑performance culture and maintaining the highest standards of compliance, quality, and customer satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities

1. Engineering Leadership & Delivery

• Oversee the delivery of global product engineering activities to meet customer requirements, ensuring productivity, quality, and technical excellence.
• Manage day‑to‑day tasking, resource allocation, and prioritisation of the wider team in collaboration with project and programme managers.
• Evaluate engineering requirements for new projects, defining technical approaches and identifying needs for new equipment, processes or capabilities.
• Ensure robust configuration control and disciplined data management across all engineering processes.
• Work closely with the Engineering Product Manager to develop and maintain technical strategies, processes, specifications, and documentation.
• Own and manage engineering requirements for our ERP system (Odoo based) from a BoM and product master data perspective.

2. People Management & Team Development

• Lead, motivate, and develop the engineering team to create an engaged, empowered, and high‑performing workforce.
• Conduct regular staff appraisals, set meaningful objectives, and maintain personal development plans for all permanent engineering staff.
• Determine resource and capacity requirements, including budget planning and recruitment needs.
• Allocate engineering resource to support projects within the business, such as estimating, project management, processed material kit development, Continues Improvement, NPI.

3. Governance, Compliance & Continuous Improvement

• Ensure full compliance with ISO, NADCAP, AS9100, and customer‑specific accreditation requirements.
• Capture, standardise, and deploy best practices across the department to drive consistency and efficiency.
• Identify, lead, and support continuous improvement initiatives across engineering processes, tools, and workflows.
• Analyse technology trends, resource needs, and market demand to assess project feasibility and inform future capability development.

4. Customer & Cross‑Functional Engagement

• Provide technical input during customer meetings, supporting bids, reviews, and ongoing programme discussions.
• Collaborate closely with Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, Programmes, and other departments to ensure alignment with company performance objectives.
• Represent engineering impacts and trade‑offs clearly when priorities shift or customer requirements evolve.

5. Performance Management & Reporting

• Establish and monitor engineering team KPIs, reporting performance and progress to the executive and management teams.
• Ensure engineering output supports broader business goals, enabling effective monitoring of key company performance parameters.
• Undertake additional duties as required by the Chief Operations Officer.

NB. This job description is intended for use as a guide only and is not an exhaustive list of tasks or responsibilities.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential

• Time‑served Engineering Apprenticeship and/or degree qualification in a relevant engineering discipline.
• Extensive experience within composites manufacturing, with strong technical understanding of composite processing, composite engineering and computer aided manufacturing practices, processes, and procedures.
• Strong knowledge of configuration control principles and their application as a core engineering discipline.
• Proven experience as a communicator, people manager and team leader, with the ability to develop, motivate, and guide engineering professionals.
• High level of competence across the Microsoft Office suite.
• Hands‑on experience using and developing MRP/ERP systems to support engineering and manufacturing workflows.

Desirable

• Experience working within the aerospace sector.
• Background in a corporate or global organisation with complex stakeholder environments.
• Knowledge of aircraft components, specifications, and industry standards.
• Demonstrable success in project management, including delivery of cross‑functional engineering initiatives on time and on budget
• Composites and knowledge and experience, including raw materials.

Personal Attributes

• Able to perform effectively under pressure, managing deadlines and priorities with minimal supervision.
• Self‑motivated team player with a proactive and collaborative approach.
• Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to engineering excellence and efficiency.
• Strong communication skills, capable of engaging confidently from shop floor to boardroom.
• Highly organised planner with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously.
• Commercially astute and data driven, with an understanding of how engineering decisions impact business performance.
• Inspirational leader who can energise, empower, and motivate teams to achieve high performance.

Performance Indicators

• Successful approval and delivery of the company’s strategy roadmap.
• Successful, demonstrable and quantifiable implementation of new technologies improving efficiency, quality, or capability.
• Publication and recognition of technical white papers showcasing the aerospace composites industry thought leadership.
• Demonstrable progress in the engineering skills matrix and overall technical capability of the team.
• Positive and direct technical impact on new business wins, customer satisfaction, and innovation outcomes.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £60,000.00-£65,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Bereavement leave
• Company events
• Company pension
• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Sick pay

Experience:

• Engineering : 3 years (required)

Licence/Certification:

• Degree in Engineering (preferred)

Work Location: In person