Engineering Project Lead

Acro Aircraft Seating is one of the UK’s leading and fastest growing manufacturers of passenger seats for commercial airlines around the world. We are an agile, innovative business at the forefront of disrupting the aerospace market. Through modern methodologies, lean techniques, inspired innovation, and passion to be the best, Acro is positioning itself to be the world’s leading aircraft seating supplier.

• Act as the primary engineering focal for all assigned projects and represent the engineering function in cross functional IPTs.
• Lead, coordinate, mentor and coach a team of engineers, ensuringclarity and alignment to the objectives tomeet the technical, commercialandprogramme requirements.
• Resource planning and tracking to enable efficient and effective use of the functional resource group to deliver the assigned work packages, support the Program Management and Finance teams in managing resource within budget constraints.
• Collaboration and negotiation with the Principal Engineers in the Product Development team to achieve the optimum balance between achieving engineering excellence and schedule/budget priorities.
• Definition and maintenance of, and delivery to, timing plans for the engineering elements of the program. Support the programme manager and IPT in development and execution of the cross-functionalprogramme plan.
• Utilising project planning and problem-solving skills to ensure that engineering tasks are delivered in line the overall program requirements.
• Resolving schedule and resource conflicts and developing technical solutions which deliver to evolving programme plans.
• Drive adherence to the Acro Stage Gate Process, and associated deliverables.
• Managing the technical requirements relevant to your project scope, tracking technical changes, Variation Orders and spec compliance.
• Interrogate and generate 3D and 2D product definition using Catia V5 and PLM systems.
• Ensure accurate Bill of Materials are released to the Operations team in accordance with IPT agreed deadlines.
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Pension contributions up to 5%
• Life assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 37.5 hours per week – 1 pm finish on a Friday
• Hybrid working (1 day a week working from home)
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Acro Aircraft Seating is an equal opportunities employer.

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Structured project delivery experience, ensuring adherence to stage gates and effective on time delivery