Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Moog is a performance culture that empowers people to achieve great things. Our people enjoy solving interesting technical challenges in a culture where everyone trusts each other to do the right thing. For you, working with us can mean deeper job satisfaction, better rewards, and a great quality of life inside and outside of work.

Responsibilities

• Develop, define, and govern the manufacturing engineering strategy and industrialization approach across all lifecycle phases of the Programme.
• Act as the programme manufacturing authority, providing expert judgement on high-impact, technically complex manufacturing and industrialization decisions.
• Lead the application of Design for Manufacture (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA), and Design to Cost principles from early design definition onward.
• Provide authoritative guidance to Design Engineering on specifications, tolerances, materials, and configurations to optimize manufacturability, cost, and scalability.
• Define global Make/Buy strategies and influence where and how products are manufactured, assembled, and tested.
• Design, develop, and optimize production processes, manufacturing layouts, equipment strategies, and material flows for efficient and economical production.
• Specify tooling, equipment, automation, and process requirements, adapting solutions to internal factory and external supplier conditions.
• Lead manufacturing engineering input to industrial readiness, production launch, and rate-ramp activities.
• Identify, analyze, and resolve complex, poorly defined manufacturing and industrialization challenges using advanced engineering principles.
• Partner closely with Supply Chain to support strategic sourcing decisions aligned to cost, capability, capacity, and risk objectives.
• Provide technical direction, mentorship, and knowledge-sharing to manufacturing engineers supporting the programme.
• Advise senior management on manufacturing risks, opportunities, and advanced engineering solutions that influence long-term competitiveness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent.
• Extensive experience in manufacturing engineering supporting complex aerospace or high-reliability industrial products.
• Mastery-level knowledge of production system design, industrialization, DFM/DFA, and advanced manufacturing processes.
• Demonstrated experience leading large, technically complex initiatives of strategic importance.
• Proven ability to operate with limited supervision while influencing senior stakeholders across functional boundaries.
• Strong record of solving complex, undefined problems through engineering judgement, innovation, and structured decision-making.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts to leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Strong commitment to quality, safety, compliance, and continuous improvement.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience defining and deploying manufacturing strategies across multiple global sites and external suppliers.
• Background in plant, industrial, or operations leadership within an aerospace manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated success influencing Design to Cost and early design trade-off decisions.
• Experience supporting production launch, industrial readiness reviews, and rate-ramp execution.

Benefits

• Flexible benefits package and development opportunities to support career progression.
• Competitive annual leave entitlement (including bank holidays).
• Private medical insurance, mental health support, and financial wellbeing resources.
• Generous life assurance and company pension contribution.
• Employee share options, free onsite parking, and EV charging.