Coordination Senior Engineer

About Edge

At EDGE bold ideas are engineered into technologies that protect, improve and save lives.

Headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, EDGE is a leading advanced technology group working at the forefront of defence and emerging technologies. Spanning more than 35 specialised companies and multiple centres of excellence, we are purpose-built to move fast. Free from heavy legacy processes, we give our people the autonomy, accountability, and agility to bring breakthrough technologies from concept to reality.

Based in Abu Dhabi, a globally connected hub at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, EDGE is home to a truly multicultural community where bold ideas thrive, and the future is shaped.

Together, we are shaping the future.

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.

The CRC Senior Engineer is accountable for ensuring end-to-end consistency, clarity and traceability of contractual commitments and customer requirements, supporting the product road map deployment and lifecycle of the turbofan propulsion systems throughout the full lifecycle (from pre-contract phase to program execution and in-service support/MRO). The role ensures that market needs, customer expectations and platform integration requirements are translated into clear product objectives, priorities and development pathway.

Acting as the voice of customer and 1st rank partners, he acts as a primary interface with platform customer and OEM partners.

• Supports contract establishment and negotiation with customers and OEM partners
• Translates contractual clauses into actionable requirements, ensuring alignment with technical scope, commercial commitments and delivery obligations
• Monitor contract compliance throughout the program lifecycle and associated contracts: pre-development, development, joint-venture if any, main suppliers or related departments (Advanced Manufacturing, Supply Chain), Capability Building and Transfer of Technology if any.
• On behalf of Powertech, support the coordination and organization of the activities critically at the interfaces between the OEM partners and Platform Customers (team/skills, tools and process of information exchange, risks management etc…). Define and manage these interfaces, in collaboration with Turbofan and Powertech departments. Reinforce the position of Powertech, clarify ambiguities and resolve conflicts.
• Coordinate workshops and reviews.
• Capture and consolidate customer requirements and mission needs, translating them into product specifications and technical/engineering requirements in close interaction with System Engineering Lead, EDGE commercial line and Industrial Lead. Ensures consistency and completeness of requirements baseline.
• Ensure full traceability from requirements to verification.
• Monitor compliance with contractual requirements, regulatory standards, and internal quality processes.

• Minimum 10 years of experience within turbofan propulsion, aerospace, or other complex engineered systems.
• Solid understanding of turbofan architectures (turbofan, modules, sub-systems and their integration constraints), performance drivers and technology road maps
• Experience in program management, program leadership, system approach.
• Exposure to customer, OEMs, authorities, or large-scale development programs
• Knowledge of V&V, airworthiness and certification frameworks (such as FAA Part 33, 21, CS-E, CS-25, …)

• High customer orientation and business mindset
• Strong product vision understanding and relationship/contract management.
• Ability to analyze and structure complex information into actionable decision under pressure with a sense of urgency
• Ability to work in a multicultural environment, across engineering, manufacturing, MRO, supply chain and commercial teams.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills

Launched in November 2019, the UAE's EDGE is one of the world's leading advanced technology groups, established to develop agile, bold and disruptive solutions for defence and beyond, and to be a catalyst for change and transformation. It is dedicated to bringing breakthrough…