Principal Product Engineer
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About the Role
The role involves overseeing turbofan module design, ensuring technical validation, managing engineering maturity gates, and mentoring the product engineering team.
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Responsibilities
- Organize and supervise Module level design (Fan, LPC, HPC, Combustor, HPT, LPT, Controls, etc.)
- Ensure technical validation through analysis, simulation, and test results: CAD, FEM, CFD, mechanical, dynamic
- Conduct design reviews (PDR/CDR) to confirm design maturity, resolve technical risks, and validate compliance
- Define and manage technical maturity gates (PDR, CDR, QR) on engineering aspects supporting Product Management strategy
- Support manufacturing department through DFM/DFA collaboration
- Ensure appropriate coordination with platforms OEM, key stakeholders and internal teams
- Ensure high rank of OTD, FTR and deploy a mindset of accountability
- Institutionalize knowledge management, standards and methods traceability along the product lifecycle
- Encourage a dare to innovate mindset to deploy best in class and new approaches
- Mentor, coach, and develop the product engineering team
Requirements
- Minimum 10 years of experience within turbofan propulsion, aerospace, or other complex engineered systems in engineering management position
- Solid understanding of turbofan architectures, performance drivers and technology road maps
- Solid experience in product engineering and detailed design, multi physics (fluid dynamics, aerothermal, electromagnetic, mechanical behavior)
- Exposure to customer, OEMs, authorities, or large scale development programs
- High result orientation and innovation mindset
- Strong problem solving mindset
- Ability to analyze and structure complex information into actionable product decisions under pressure
- Ability to work in a multicultural environment
- Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills
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About POWERTECH
- POWERTECH is a center of excellence for propulsion technologies, specializing in the design, engineering, and manufacturing of combustion engines, expendable turbojet engines, and turbofan engines for aerospace, defence, and autonomous applications.
About the Role
- The Product Engineering Leader is accountable for detailed design, analysis and technical justification of the turbofan's modules, components and parts.
Key Responsibilities
- Organize and supervise Module level design (Fan, LPC, HPC, Combustor, HPT, LPT, Controls, etc.)
- Ensure technical validation through analysis, simulation, and test results: CAD, FEM, CFD, mechanical, dynamic
- Conduct design reviews (PDR/CDR) to confirm design maturity, resolve technical risks, and validate compliance
- Define and manage technical maturity gates (PDR, CDR, QR) on engineering aspects supporting the Product Management strategy and milestones
- Support manufacturing department through DFM/DFA collaboration
- Ensure appropriate coordination with platforms OEM, key stakeholders and internal teams: Test Engineering, System Engineering and Manufacturing
- Ensure high rank of OTD, FTR and deploy a mindset of accountability
- Institutionalize knowledge management, standards and methods traceability along the product lifecycle
- Encourage a dare to innovate mindset so as to deploy best in class and new approaches when relevant (AI, software suite)
- Mentor, coach, and develop the product engineering team, promoting continuous improvement and alignment with company engineering standards
Qualifications & Experience
- Minimum 10 years of experience within turbofan propulsion, aerospace, or other complex engineered systems in engineering management position
- Solid understanding of turbofan architectures (turbofan, modules, sub systems and their integration constraints), performance drivers and technology road maps
- Solid experience in product engineering and detailed design, multi physics (fluid dynamics, aerothermal, electromagnetic, mechanical behavior)
- Exposure to customer, OEMs, authorities, or large scale development programs
Skills
- High result orientation and innovation mindset
- Strong problem solving mindset
- Ability to analyze and structure complex information into actionable product decision under pressure with a sense of urgency
- Ability to work in a multicultural environment, across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain and commercial teams
- Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills
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