Operations, QA, Facility Integration - Senior Engineer

Senior Engineer – Operations, QA, Facility Integration

About POWERTECH

POWERTECH 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, defence, and autonomous applications, including fixed- and rotary-wing UAVs and other advanced platforms.

Role summary

You will own the operations of the Additive Manufacturing and Materials facility, keep machines cutting-edge, utilities running smoothly, and every build traceable. You will plan and execute the facility fit-out, run daily operations, head the QA and calibrations team, and act as a single operational interface to vendors, as well as EDGE’s central procurement, finance, and legal teams.

Key responsibilities

• Facility fit-out & utilities: Plan the facility layout for the additive manufacturing workflow including materials, manufacture, post-processing, metrology, QA, and testing & characterization. You will take into account the equipment requirements (power, gas and water supply, extraction, etc) and manage contractors to hand-over.
• Equipment & consumables: Draft specifications, lead RFQs, negotiate T&Cs, oversee FAT/SAT, sustain spare parts pipeline.
• Operational excellence: Ensure smooth operations and utmost utilization of the equipment within the facility. Implement a monitoring dashboard and increase machine uptime.
• QA / Calibration leadership: Govern standard procedures. Ensure all equipment are regularly calibrated. Lead facility certification exercises where needed.
• Vendor & stakeholder liaison: Act as a single point to suppliers, service engineers, as well as EDGE’s procurement, finance, and legal teams.
• People management: Mentor technicians, QA engineers, maintenance staff. Organise equipment trainings for relevant users.

Mandatory qualifications

• BEng/BSc in mechanical, industrial, or electrical engineering, or a similar discipline.
• 7+ years running advanced manufacturing facilities, with 3+ years at a principal level.
• Proven fit-out of at least one relevant facility or manufacturing line.
• Hands-on with ISO9001, AS9100, NADCAP, EHS, and TPM/OEE systems.
• CAPEX/OPEX budgeting, vendor negotiation, contract and spare parts management experience.
• Leadership: build and manage teams of technicians and drive cultural changes.

Desired skills

• Lean / Six sigma black belt certification
•    CMMS & predictive maintenance expertise: set up condition monitoring, analytics, spare parts optimization across AM, post-processing, and metrology assets.

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