EDGE

Senior Manager – Strategic Engineering

EDGE

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Abu Dhabi • United Arab Emirates

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Senior

About the role

  • Execute the Strategic Engineering roadmap to support engineering centralization, scalability, and innovation objectives.
  • Drive centralization of engineering capabilities based on assessment of group-wide resources, capability gaps, and potential business opportunities.
  • Establish a centralized engineering model that improves efficiency, capability visibility, and responsiveness to strategic and operational needs.
  • Align centralized engineering capacity with short-term program requirements and long-term organizational growth priorities.
  • Lead engineering resource planning, demand forecasting, and capacity management across centralized engineering pools.
  • Optimize the cost and utilization of bench strength by proactively managing deployment, redeployment, and workforce balancing.
  • Implement effective resource management strategies to ensure optimal allocation, mobility, and productivity across programs and entities.
  • Govern resource allocation based on business priority, technical capability, availability, and strategic value.
  • Establish and maintain a comprehensive engineering skill inventory aligned with current and future demand patterns.
  • Continuously monitor capability gaps and workforce readiness to support emerging technologies, programs, and strategic initiatives.
  • Enable data-driven workforce planning using skill mapping, utilization metrics, and capability forecasting.
  • Promote capability development, upskilling, and cross-functional mobility to enhance workforce flexibility and readiness.
  • Implement and operationalize the Build-Buy-Borrow framework to ensure optimal sourcing of engineering talent: Build: Develop internal capabilities through training, upskilling, and workforce development programs. Buy: Support strategic hiring aligned with capability gaps and long-term organizational needs. Borrow: Leverage contractors, partners, or shared resources to address short-term or specialized requirements.
  • Ensure cost-effective and strategic workforce decisions aligned with organizational objectives.
  • Drive standardization of engineering processes, tools, methodologies, and quality standards across centralized and entity-level teams.
  • Monitor engineering utilization, bench cost, deployment efficiency, and delivery performance metrics.
  • Establish governance frameworks for engineering resource management, workforce planning, and centralization effectiveness.
  • Engage with business leaders, program managers, and engineering stakeholders to align resource plans with program delivery needs.
  • Enable effective collaboration between centralized engineering pools and entity-based teams to ensure seamless execution.
  • Identify opportunities to improve resource efficiency, workforce agility, and cost optimization.
  • Promote knowledge sharing, capability development, and continuous improvement across engineering disciplines.
  • Support organizational transformation toward a scalable, centralized engineering operating model.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Statistical Modelling, Engineering Management, or related technical discipline.
  • 08–10 years of experience in engineering resource management, workforce planning, or centralized/shared engineering environments.
  • Proven experience managing engineering resource pools, workforce utilization, and centralized capability models.
  • Experience implementing workforce strategies such as Build-Buy-Borrow, skill inventory management, and demand-based workforce planning.
  • Experience within aerospace, defense, advanced technology, or regulated industries is preferred.
  • Experience in multi-entity, multi-project, or matrix organizational environments is highly desirable.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
engineering resource managementworkforce planningcapacity managementdemand forecastingskill inventory managementdata-driven workforce planningcost optimizationresource allocationengineering process standardizationcapability forecasting
Soft Skills
leadershipcollaborationstrategic thinkingcommunicationproblem-solvingorganizational skillsflexibilitycontinuous improvementknowledge sharingstakeholder engagement
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Industrial EngineeringBachelor’s degree in Operations ResearchBachelor’s degree in Statistical ModellingBachelor’s degree in Engineering Management