Product Delivery Manager - Structural Systems Digital Engineering

Contract: Initial 6 Months
Day Rate: Circa £600 Inside IR35
Location: Hybrid (Reading as required)
Start Date: ASAP
Security Clearance: Active SC clearance

We are looking for an experienced Product Delivery Manager - Structural Systems Digital Engineering to lead the development and delivery of digital engineering capabilities supporting advanced aircraft structural design and analysis.

You will shape the digital toolchains, architectures, and lifecycle environments that underpin 3D CAD, Model-Based Definition (MBD), Finite Element Analysis (FEA), composite and metallic structures, joints and fasteners, structural testing, and certification.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the delivery and continuous improvement of Structural Systems digital engineering capabilities.
• Develop product roadmaps, delivery plans, and prioritised backlogs aligned with engineering and programme requirements.
• Support and optimise digital environments for CAD/MBD, FEA, structural analysis, composites, metallic structures, joints, fasteners, loads, and mass properties.
• Enable integration with the wider Digital Thread, ensuring data continuity from requirements and design through analysis, test, and evidence.
• Establish technical baselines, reference architectures, methodologies, and work instructions.
• Promote best practice in model-based engineering, structural analysis, verification, and evidence generation.
• Ensure solutions meet agreed quality, performance, security, compliance, and airworthiness requirements.
• Lead upgrades, enhancements, and lifecycle management of digital engineering platforms with minimal disruption to users.
• Capture, challenge, and consolidate requirements across engineering teams and partners.
• Drive adoption of new tools, processes, and frameworks through effective stakeholder engagement, training, and change management.
• Establish appropriate data models, metadata, naming conventions, and access controls for engineering information.
• Coordinate delivery across internal teams, suppliers, and system integrators.
• Monitor service performance, risks, capacity, technical debt, and dependencies.
• Drive incident resolution, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Support vendor relationships, contract management, licence optimisation, and technology evaluations.
• Identify opportunities for innovation in automation, topology optimisation, multiscale modelling, co-simulation, model calibration, and evidence generation.

Skills & Experience

• Degree in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience delivering digital engineering capabilities across structural systems.
• Experience within the Aerospace and/or Defence industry, with an understanding of regulated and safety-critical environments.
• Strong knowledge of structural engineering toolchains including 3D CAD/MBD, FEA, stress analysis, stiffness and strength, buckling, fatigue, and damage tolerance.
• Experience with metallic and/or composite structures, joints, fasteners, and structural test correlation.
• Strong understanding of Model-Based Engineering and Digital Thread principles.
• Proven experience managing complex technical delivery involving multiple stakeholders, suppliers, and distributed teams.
• Strong project, programme, or service management experience. ITIL, APM, or PRINCE2 qualifications are advantageous.
• Experience with SAFe or Agile delivery methodologies.
• Understanding of structural airworthiness and certification, including strength, stiffness, stability, fatigue, damage tolerance, and durability.
• Experience managing suppliers and technology partners supporting CAD/MBD, FEA, composite analysis, materials databases, or test-data platforms.
• Knowledge of topology optimisation, progressive damage modelling, multiscale material modelling, and structural joining/fastening analysis.
• Experience delivering digital transformation and business change across engineering organisations.
• Experience working with secure, collaborative environments supporting distributed engineering teams.

Disclaimer

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.