Senior UAV Integration & Test Lead

Edge Group; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 250,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

EDGE Group, via ADASI, seeks an Integration and Test Engineer – Program Engineer in Abu Dhabi. You will lead multidisciplinary teams to ensure aircraft, subsystems, payloads, and GCS are integrated and verified per program objectives.

The role interfaces with Program Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, Flight Test, Quality, Safety, and suppliers, translating requirements into I&T actions and developing schedules and resources to meet milestones with safety and quality in mind.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Master’s degree in Engineering, Program Management, Systems Engineering, or related field preferred.
• Extensive engineering experience in aerospace, defense, missile systems, UAV/UCAV, military systems, or other complex environments.
• Significant experience in integration, test, production readiness, facilities, engineering projects, or industrialization.

Responsibilities

• Develop and continuously improve the Integration & Test capability for UAV/UCAV development and production.
• Define facilities, equipment, tooling, test infrastructure, and personnel capabilities.
• Lead planning and development of Integration & Test facilities, workshops, labs and supporting infrastructure.
• Define facility requirements, layouts, utilities, environmental conditions and equipment needs.
• Translate program and system requirements into I&T activities and execution plans.
• Coordinate I&T activities across engineering, manufacturing, quality, procurement, program management, flight test and other stakeholders.

Skills

Integration & Test

Facilities planning

Cross-functional coordination

Program management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field

Master’s degree in Engineering, Program Management, Systems Engineering, or related field preferred

Job description

EDGE Group, via ADASI, seeks an Integration and Test Engineer – Program Engineer in Abu Dhabi. You will lead multidisciplinary teams to ensure aircraft, subsystems, payloads, and GCS are integrated and verified per program objectives.

The role interfaces with Program Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, Flight Test, Quality, Safety, and suppliers, translating requirements into I&T actions and developing schedules and resources to meet milestones with safety and quality in mind.