Aerospace Supplier Development & Industrialization Lead

TALENTMATE; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

POWERTECH in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, seeks a senior leader to qualify and industrialize its aerospace supplier base across UAE and international networks. You will own supplier readiness from capability assessment to production ramp-up, guiding APQP, PFMEA, and process validation while managing gates under schedule pressure.

The role requires hands-on aerospace manufacturing leadership, ability to build supplier development capabilities, and regular travel to supplier sites.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Manufacturing or Materials Engineering.
• 10+ years’ aerospace/aero-engine manufacturing experience, including supplier development, industrialization or manufacturing engineering.
• Strong manufacturing expertise across machining, turning, grinding, forming, welding/brazing or investment casting.
• Deep knowledge of APQP, PPAP/AS9145, AS9102 FAI, PFMEA, control plans, process capability and MSA.
• Knowledge of AS9100 and NADCAP or equivalent.
• Experience developing and qualifying aerospace suppliers.
• Experience building supplier development capability from the ground up.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical capability assessments of suppliers covering machining, sheet metal fabrication, welding and casting.
• Assess manufacturing methods, equipment, tooling, fixturing, metrology, special processes, sub-tier controls and quality maturity.
• Lead capacity studies covering cycle time, utilization, manning, changeover and bottlenecks, validating capacity through run‑at‑rate demonstrations.
• Own supplier development plans, maturity gates, entry/exit criteria and evidence requirements.
• Govern APQP, PFMEA, control plans, routings, tooling, gauging, process validation and production readiness.
• Provide senior technical authority for supplier manufacturing and process problems.
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective action for process instability, dimensional variation, scrap and yield loss.
• Lead technology transfer and industrialization of manufacturing processes to partners.
• Ensure tooling, gauging, CNC programs, process documentation and training are complete before handover.
• Build and lead the Industrialization & Supplier Development team.
• Present supplier readiness, risks and gate status to senior leadership.
• Partner with Supply Chain, Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Metrology, Inspection and Product Quality.

Skills

APQP

AS9145

NADCAP

Supplier Dev

Industrialization

Education

Mechanical Engineering

Aerospace Engineering

Manufacturing Eng

Job description

POWERTECH in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, seeks a senior leader to qualify and industrialize its aerospace supplier base across UAE and international networks. You will own supplier readiness from capability assessment to production ramp-up, guiding APQP, PFMEA, and process validation while managing gates under schedule pressure.

The role requires hands-on aerospace manufacturing leadership, ability to build supplier development capabilities, and regular travel to supplier sites.