Associate Manager - Systems Engineering (Hybrid)

Role overview

Systems engineering and technical leadership

• Lead end-to-end systems engineering for aircraft interior products and solutions, including requirements definition, decomposition, allocation, traceability, and management.
• Lead system architecture development, functional decomposition, interface definition, design, integration, verification, and validation.
• Maintain traceability across customer requirements, system requirements, design specifications, and verification evidence; manage interfaces and integration dependencies.
• Support technical reviews with aircraft OEMs and suppliers; consider installation, environmental, safety, reliability, and certification requirements.
• Review and approve engineering deliverables, resolve complex issues through problem-solving and root cause analysis, and drive MBSE adoption.

People and program leadership

• Lead, mentor, and develop engineering professionals; establish objectives, coach employees, conduct performance reviews, and support engagement, competency development, and succession planning.
• Manage resource allocation and workloads; deliver engineering commitments on time and monitor schedules, resources, technical risks, and deliverable quality.
• Partner with program management, design engineering, software, hardware, systems integration, quality, and operations teams.
• Support milestone, design, and customer technical reviews; mitigate execution challenges and improve engineering productivity and delivery effectiveness.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, mechanical, electrical, or electronics engineering.
• 9–12 years of relevant systems engineering or closely related experience, including at least 3 years in project and people management.
• Experience across systems engineering lifecycle activities, including requirements development, architecture, integration, verification, and validation.
• Practical MBSE experience in system architecture modeling, requirements traceability, and interface management.
• Experience leading engineering teams or providing technical leadership; understanding of engineering development processes and aerospace product development methodologies.
• Experience in cross-functional, multidisciplinary engineering environments; strong technical communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving capabilities.

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree in aerospace engineering, systems engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience with aircraft OEMs, aerospace suppliers, or airline customers; knowledge of ARP4754, ARP4761, DO-160, DO-254, or DO-178.
• Understanding of aircraft certification and development assurance processes.
• Experience with Polarion, DOORS, or JAMA and systems modeling tools such as MATLAB/Simulink, Cameo System Modeler, MagicDraw, or IBM Rhapsody.
• Experience managing distributed engineering teams; exposure to competency development, process improvement, productivity initiatives, MBSE, digital engineering, model-based verification, or digital thread concepts.

Work arrangement

• The role is hybrid, with regular work both onsite and offsite; onsite time is determined with the leader.

Benefits

• Benefits include meal coupons or vouchers, insurance, annual vacation and contingency leave, an employee scholar programme, work-life balance, car lease programme, National Pension Scheme, and other listed allowances.