Senior Engineer - AM Operations

POWERTECHis 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.

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.

• 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, liaison with the procurement team, 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, engineers, maintenance staff. Organise equipment trainings for relevant users.

• 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 ISO
  9001, 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.

• CMMS & predictive maintenance expertise: set up condition monitoring, analytics, spare parts optimization across AM, post‑processing, and metrology assets.