Overview

In this role you will lead aerospace projects from initiation to delivery, balancing time, cost, and quality. You work closely with engineering teams, stakeholders, and management to translate technical detail into actionable plans and reports. You ensure compliance with aerospace standards and facilitate design reviews and milestone gates. You play a key part in risk management, subcontractor oversight, and bid/support activities, delivering complex programs in safety-critical domains.

Responsibilities

Lead and coordinate delivery of aerospace gas turbine engineering projects with milestones, budgets, and certification requirements
Translate engineering detail into project plans, risk registers, and management reports
Bridge communication between engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders
Manage project schedules, cost tracking, and reporting per aerospace program standards
Ensure compliance with aerospace standards and frameworks (EASA/FAA, AS9100)
Facilitate design reviews, specialist inputs, and milestone gates
Identify risks, dependencies, and resource needs and coordinate mitigation
Manage subcontractor deliverables and performance
Support bid preparation and technical-commercial alignment

Key requirements

Proven project management experience in a technical discipline
Strong grasp of engineering processes and deliverables
Ability to interpret engineering documentation (design requirements specs, statements of work, compliance reports)
Familiarity with design process life cycle (V-model, gated reviews, configuration management)
Demonstrable stakeholder and supplier management skills
Strong organisational skills with experience coordinating multi-disciplinary teams

Technically curious
Strong communication and reporting skills
Self-driven pragmatic problem solver
Aerospace engineering background or related discipline
Gas turbines or systems engineering experience
Experience leading rig design projects

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