Engineering Design Manager

• £45,000 - £55,000 + excellent bens.
• Kidderminster, Worcestershire

The design department designs new and modified rocket motors and related systems. The department is also responsible for the analysis of rocket motor designs, including: Ballistic performance prediction and modelling, propellant charge and hardware stress analysis, and the provision of documentation service. Maintenance of design manuals and similar knowledge databases is also completed by the Design Team.

Responsibilities - Engineering Design Manager

The role holder is responsible for managing a team of design analysts and documentation configuration engineers, to manage the tasks, projects and activities of the department.

• Manage a team of analysts, documentation configuration engineers to deliver the functions and key objectives of the team in line with business plan and requirements.
• Plan and prioritise immediate tasks with team for immediate and mid-term requirements.
• Manage inputs into the design manual for capturing knowledge management for the engineering department.
• Develop and implement strategy to improve the analysis capability
• Responsible for ensuring accurate ballistic and stress analysis.
• Responsible for ensuring high quality documentation configuration and seek to improve OTD of our deliverables.
• Report progress of tasks, issues and progress on a weekly basis.
• Monitor on time delivery of tasks, and take corrective action accordingly.
• Manage people strategy including; setting objectives, training and development for the team, recruitment, talent management and succession planning.
• Bids and pre-concept phase support / management.
• Lead on future propulsion concept scoping.
• Technical management - Project support, investigations, customer engagement etc.

Requirements - Engineering Design Manager

Candidates should have a formal qualification (HNC, HND or degree) with Physics, applied mathematics or relevant engineering discipline and should have previous proven relevant experience

• Leadership of technical projects
• Supervision or management of people
• Design of aerospace and defence products
• Environmental trials, e.g. simulated ageing, vibration
• Structural tests, e.g. launch and flight loads
• Product modelling software and techniques
• Customer design and production reviews
• Engineering drawing and configuration management
• Aerospace and defence standards