Responsibilities
The Engineering Manager for Thermal Management Systems within Parker Aerospace’s Gas Turbine Fuel Systems Division (GTFSD) is responsible for leading the multi-disciplinary engineering team based at Ansty Park. The role provides overall leadership, direction, and accountability to ensure engineering activities are effectively prioritised, resourced, and delivered in line with programme commitments, customer expectations, technical requirements, and business objectives.
The role is accountable for delivery across a portfolio of New Product Introduction (NPI), technology development, analysis activities and sustaining engineering, while maintaining the highest standards of product safety, quality, and technical integrity. Through leadership of engineering supervisors and their teams, the Engineering Manager ensures risks are understood and managed, production and customer commitments are supported, safe and compliant products are released and shipped, and next-generation heat exchanger developments are progressed in line with business and future growth priorities.
Your responsibilities
- Lead the multi-disciplinary TMS-UK engineering team at Ansty Park, establishing clear priorities and ensuring day-to-day activities are aligned to programme, customer, production, and business needs.
- Work with Engineering Supervisors to coordinate workload, support technical decision-making, manage priorities, and maintain effective communication across NPI, sustaining, analysis, and technology development activities.
- Allocate engineering resources and budgets effectively across current programmes, production support, and future technology projects, balancing short-term delivery needs with longer-term strategic objectives.
- Represent TMS-UK engineering in programme, customer and site leadership team meetings, ensuring clear communication of status, risks, resource needs, and priorities.
- Provide leadership, mentoring, and coaching across the engineering organisation, supporting performance management, development planning, succession planning, and capability growth.
- Partner with programme management, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, customers, and Divisional stakeholders to resolve engineering issues and support delivery of safe, compliant products.
- Contribute to GTFSD and TMS-UK technology strategy, including roadmaps for next-generation heat exchangers, hydrogen-related technologies, additive manufacturing, and future growth opportunities.
Who we are looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related discipline; Master’s, PhD, MBA, or equivalent qualification desirable.
- Typically, 12+ years’ relevant engineering experience in aerospace or another regulated engineering environment.
- Minimum 5+ years’ experience as an engineering manager or people leader, including coaching, performance management, capability development, and succession planning.
- Experience leading engineering delivery across NPI, analysis, technology development and sustaining/production support activities.
- Strong technical grounding in mechanical engineering and safety-critical product development, including engineering governance, product safety, compliance, design review, risk management, and product release.
- Proven ability to manage resources, budgets, risks, priorities, stakeholders, and delivery commitments across multiple programmes or projects.
Experience working directly with customers, programme teams, Operations, Quality, Senior Leadership, and Divisional stakeholders to resolve technical and delivery issues.
What we offer
- Growing sector, stable employer with a global footprint.
- Career growth and opportunities: we hire from within!
- Collaborative and empowered work environment where team spirit is at the center of our success.
- Company values that encourage trust, respect, collaboration and professional growth.
- Open environment: we are excited to hear your ideas!
- Attractive compensation packages designed to hire and retain the best talents in the industry.
