Project Manager (Mechanical Design – Aerospace domain)

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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