About
The company is a center of excellence for propulsion technologies, specializing in the design, engineering, and manufacturing of combustion engines, expendable turbojet engines, and turbofan engines for a wide range of aerospace, defense, and autonomous applications, including fixed- and rotary-wing UAVs and other advanced platforms. The Module Manager acts as the technical authority and owner of a turbofan engine module throughout its entire lifecycle. He/she is accountable for technical integrity, performance, airworthiness, durability, and compliance of the module, from concept definition to in-service support.
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Location
Abu Dhabi, AE
Key Responsibilities
- Own the technical definition, architecture, and performance of the assigned module.
- Define and maintain module-level requirements, margins, and design targets.
- Ensure compliance with certification regulations (CS-E type, MIL) and internal design standards.
- Approve technical decisions, deviations, and concessions.
- Ensure compatibility of the module with adjacent systems and overall engine architecture.
- Support system-level trade studies and performance optimization.
- Validate interfaces (mechanical, thermal, functional, and control).
- Lead technical reviews (PDR, CDR, TRR, certification reviews).
- Ensure maturity of the design prior to testing and industrialization.
- Support compliance demonstrations and certification documentation.
- Participate in root cause analysis of in-service events.
- Define corrective actions, design improvements, and retrofit strategies.
- Support airworthiness decisions and continued operational safety.
- Prepare and distribute status reports, technical reports, and materials for Program Review Meetings (PRMs).
- Ensure appropriate coordination with platforms, OEM, key stakeholders, and internal teams: Test Engineering, System Engineering, and Manufacturing to ensure module integrity, technical consistency, and full compliance.
- Ensure the module development progress throughout development up to serial production/in-service support.
- Coordinate and maintain the module plan and key success factors to reach milestones (PDR, CDR, SOF, Serial…) including consistency of deliverables (development, production plan, certification, airworthiness…).
- Manage, follow, and approve change orders, risks, and compliance.
Qualifications & Experience
- Minimum 8 years of experience within turbofan propulsion, aerospace, or other complex engineered systems.
- Solid understanding of turbofan architectures (including engine build-up and dressing, AGB, ECU, modules FAN/LPC/HPC/HPT/LPT/TRF/OGV sub-systems and their integration constraints), performance drivers, and technology interfaces (sensors, equipment).
- Experience in module management, project leadership, system approach, and all related tools.
- Exposure to customer, OEMs, authorities.
- Knowledge of V&V, airworthiness, and certification frameworks (such as FAA Part 33, CS-E).
Skills
- Strong module vision and system approach/interfaces management.
- Ability to analyze and structure complex information into actionable product decisions under pressure with a sense of urgency.
- Ability to work in a multicultural environment, across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and commercial teams.
- Excellent communication skills, team player.
- Agile/lean methodology knowledge is a plus.
