Director of Industrialisation
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About the Role
Rebel Recruiters is seeking a Director of Industrialisation for a pioneering eVTOL aerospace programme in Dubai. This senior leadership role involves defining and delivering the industrial strategy to transition a next-generation aircraft from prototype to full-scale production.
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Responsibilities
- Develop and lead the industrialization strategy for a next generation eVTOL aircraft programme
- Define manufacturing methods, tooling strategies, factory layout and production systems
- Lead manufacturing readiness from prototype builds through to scalable production
- Drive operational excellence, lean manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives
- Establish digital manufacturing capabilities, including MES and manufacturing technologies
- Build and lead multidisciplinary industrialization and manufacturing teams
- Collaborate with Engineering, Quality, Airworthiness and Supply Chain to ensure efficient product introduction
- Develop manufacturing processes that meet regulatory, quality and safety requirements
- Manage production readiness, configuration control and manufacturing performance
- Support strategic planning, facility development and future manufacturing expansion
Requirements
- Significant leadership experience within aerospace, defence or advanced manufacturing
- Proven experience introducing new products into production
- Experience leading industrialization activities from prototype through production
- Strong knowledge of manufacturing readiness, production planning and factory operations
- Experience leading multidisciplinary manufacturing and engineering teams
- Strong understanding of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement
- Experience working within regulated manufacturing environments
- Excellent leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering or related discipline
- Experience within aerospace manufacturing or aircraft production
- Knowledge of digital manufacturing systems and MES
- Experience with tooling strategy, factory layout and production system design
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The Role
- We are recruiting for a Director of Industrialization to join a pioneering eVTOL aerospace programme based in Dubai.
- This is a senior leadership opportunity to define and deliver the industrial strategy that will take a next generation aircraft from prototype development through to full scale production.
- Reporting into the senior leadership team, you will be responsible for establishing world class manufacturing capability, driving operational excellence and building the systems, processes and teams required to support a high growth aerospace manufacturing environment.
- Working closely with Engineering, Airworthiness, Quality and Supply Chain, you will ensure manufacturing operations are safe, efficient, scalable and fully compliant with aerospace standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and lead the industrialization strategy for a next generation eVTOL aircraft programme.
- Define manufacturing methods, tooling strategies, factory layout and production systems.
- Lead manufacturing readiness from prototype builds through to scalable production.
- Drive operational excellence, lean manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Establish digital manufacturing capabilities, including MES and manufacturing technologies.
- Build and lead multidisciplinary industrialization and manufacturing teams.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Quality, Airworthiness and Supply Chain to ensure efficient product introduction.
- Develop manufacturing processes that meet regulatory, quality and safety requirements.
- Manage production readiness, configuration control and manufacturing performance.
- Support strategic planning, facility development and future manufacturing expansion.
Requirements
- Significant leadership experience within aerospace, defence or advanced manufacturing.
- Proven experience introducing new products into production.
- Experience leading industrialization activities from prototype through production.
- Strong knowledge of manufacturing readiness, production planning and factory operations.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary manufacturing and engineering teams.
- Strong understanding of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement.
- Experience working within regulated manufacturing environments.
- Excellent leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering or a related discipline (preferred).
- Experience within aerospace manufacturing or aircraft production (preferred).
- Knowledge of digital manufacturing systems and MES (preferred).
- Experience with tooling strategy, factory layout and production system design (preferred).
About the company
- We're a small, tight knit team of talent hunters based in the City of Rebels, Nottingham, UK.
- We provide specialist contractors and build product development and go to market teams in the Software/SaaS, Data and IIoT markets.
- We work with start ups and scale ups across the UK, Western Europe and the US.
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