Design Engineering Manager

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defence company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world.

Collins Aerospace is a leader in technologically advanced, intelligent solutions that help redefine the aerospace and defence industry. With a comprehensive portfolio and deep technical expertise, we help customers meet the demands of the global market. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defence.

We are seeking to recruit a Design Engineering Manager to be based at our facility in Havant. This is an onsite role with the standard working hours as follows:

08:00 to 16:45 Monday to Thursday and 08:00 to 12:30 on Friday.

• Line management and development of the Design Engineering team, including Design Engineers, Senior Design Engineers and Product Support Engineers.
• Management of engineering activities supporting development, production and aftermarket driven design changes.
• Promoting a collaborative, accountable and high-performing engineering culture.

• Managing engineering capacity, resource allocation and executing to priorities.
• Monitoring engineering progress, utilisation and delivery performance against programme schedules and budgets.
• Identifying and managing engineering delivery risks, resource conflicts and schedule pressures.

• Assurance of compliance to Design processes, standards and governance.
• Ensuring compliance with engineering development lifecycle requirements and internal procedures.
• Process control implementation to ensure effective configuration management and control of engineering data within PLM/PDM systems.
• Reporting of performance metrics and building data capture methods.

• Identifying and implementing improvements to engineering processes, coordination and delivery efficiency.
• Supporting development of engineering standards, templates and best practices.
• Supporting the execution of improvement projects within the Design discipline.  

• Degree qualified in Engineering, Management or a related technical discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
• Proven experience within a Design Engineering environment.
• Experience in Design Engineering for aerospace or a similarly regulated engineering environment.
• Experience leading or managing engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience delivering product development programmes.
• Experience of supportive team leadership and leading personal development.
• Strong understanding of engineering design processes, governance and configuration management.
• Experience managing engineering deliverables within a structured product development lifecycle.
• Demonstrated capability in engineering planning, workload management and resource allocation.
• Strong organisational, communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Structured, process-oriented approach to engineering delivery and operational execution.

• Aircraft interiors, cabin systems or aerospace electrical/electronic products.
• Aerospace certification environments and design assurance processes.
• Engineering process improvement and organisational development initiatives.
• Multidisciplinary engineering environments including mechanical, electrical, electronics and software engineering.
• Production support, aftermarket engineering or product lifecycle support activities.
• APQP or equivalent design assurance and development systems.

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