Engineering Manager – Aerospace Manufacturing

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering support for forged aerospace and aero-engine components; guide technical decisions across forging, metallurgy, process engineering, and manufacturing.
• Oversee forging process development, industrialisation, qualification, and continuous improvement, including work with titanium, nickel-based superalloys, and other high-performance aerospace materials.
• Provide technical leadership across tooling, dies, heat treatment, machining interfaces, and downstream manufacturing processes.
• Lead analysis and resolution of complex manufacturing defects and non-conformities.
• Drive NPI, production readiness, first-part qualification, and process validation.
• Support equipment selection, commissioning, capability development, and production ramp-up.
• Define engineering standards, process controls, and technical documentation; collaborate with Production, Quality, Supply Chain, suppliers, and OEM stakeholders.
• Lead and develop engineering teams while retaining a hands-on technical presence.

Requirements

• Strong forging process engineering and/or metallurgy background in aerospace, aero-engine, gas-turbine, or another highly regulated advanced-manufacturing environment.
• Significant hands-on experience with forged components and forging process development.
• Strong knowledge of titanium and/or nickel-based superalloys.
• Experience with areas such as hot forging, closed-die forging, ring rolling, heat treatment, tooling/dies, process parameters, and defect analysis.
• Strong understanding of process capability, PFMEA, SPC, root-cause analysis, and manufacturing qualification.
• Experience with NPI, industrialisation, production readiness, and process validation.
• Previous senior process engineering, metallurgy, process-owner, technical-authority, principal-engineering, or similar experience, progressing into engineering leadership.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams and making senior technical decisions.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in metallurgy, materials engineering, mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, or a related discipline.
• Aerospace quality-system exposure such as AS9100, AS13100, or OEM-specific standards is highly desirable.

Preferred experience

• Direct aero-engine component manufacturing experience is preferred.
• Experience with turbine discs, shafts, rings, blades, or other forged engine components is preferred.
• Greenfield, new-facility, or equipment-commissioning exposure is preferred.
• Supplier qualification and OEM interface experience is preferred.
• Lean, Six Sigma, or continuous-improvement background is preferred.

Workplace

• The role is based in an aerospace manufacturing environment in Abu Dhabi.