Damia Group
Product Delivery Manager
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Digital Engineering Delivery Manager (Mechanical Systems)
Contract Length: 3 months (rolling contract)
Pay Rate: £700 - £1,200 per day (inside IR35)
Location: Reading (x2 days per week)
UK Based | Aerospace / Defence | Senior Delivery Role
We are looking for an experienced Digital Engineering Delivery Manager to take ownership of the delivery and ongoing development of sophisticated digital engineering capabilities within a major engineering environment.
This is a senior role sitting at the intersection of engineering, digital technology, and product delivery, with responsibility for ensuring engineering teams have the tools, environments, processes, and integrated capabilities required to support complex mechanical and fluid-system design.
You will work closely with engineering teams, technical specialists, suppliers, and senior stakeholders to translate engineering requirements into clear capability roadmaps, prioritised backlogs, and deliverable solutions.
What you'll be doing
- Leading the delivery and continuous improvement of digital engineering capabilities supporting complex mechanical and fluid systems
- Developing product roadmaps, delivery plans, and prioritised backlogs based on engineering and business requirements
- Supporting engineering toolchains covering system simulation, CAD, CFD, thermal analysis, configuration management, and test data
- Ensuring effective integration and traceability between requirements, engineering models, analysis, and test evidence
- Working with engineering teams to improve model-based and simulation-driven engineering practices
- Coordinating delivery across internal technical teams, external suppliers, and technology partners
- Managing technical risks, dependencies, performance, capacity, and service improvement
- Supporting the selection, implementation, and optimisation of engineering technologies and platforms
- Establishing appropriate governance, data standards, access controls, and configuration practices
- Driving adoption of new engineering tools, processes, and ways of working across multidisciplinary teams
- Managing supplier relationships, technology evaluations, and technical delivery
- Balancing immediate delivery requirements with longer-term architecture, scalability, and maintainability
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What we're looking for
We are particularly interested in candidates who combine strong engineering knowledge with digital/product delivery experience.
You should have:
- Significant experience delivering digital engineering capabilities within aerospace, defence, or another highly regulated engineering environment
- Strong knowledge of mechanical and/or fluid systems engineering
- Experience with engineering environments involving 1D system simulation, CFD, thermal analysis, and/or 3D CAD
- Good understanding of model-based engineering and simulation-driven design
- Experience integrating engineering tools, data, and processes across complex environments
- Strong product, project, or programme delivery experience
- Experience managing technical suppliers and system integrators
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work across engineering, technology, and leadership teams
- Experience operating within complex, multi-partner, or distributed engineering programmes
- Strong understanding of governance, configuration management, data quality, and engineering assurance
- Experience across areas such as fuel systems, hydraulics, environmental control, pneumatics, thermal management, or other complex mechanical systems would be particularly valuable
- A degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline is preferred, alongside relevant project, programme, or service-management experience.
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Security
Due to the nature of the environment, candidates must be eligible to obtain the appropriate UK security clearance.
The opportunity
This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping how advanced engineering teams use digital technology, simulation, and integrated engineering environments.
You'll have significant ownership of the capability roadmap and work with a broad range of engineering and technology specialists to introduce solutions that improve engineering efficiency, collaboration, traceability, and quality.
If you have a background spanning digital engineering, mechanical/fluid systems, and complex technical delivery, we'd be keen to hear from you.
This temporary contract is inside IR35 and will require working under the direction of the client delivery manager as part of a multi-disciplinary team. The successful candidate will follow established delivery processes and working practices.
This role requires the successful candidate to undergo and be eligible for UK Security Vetting at SC/DV level. Clearance sponsorship will be provided where required. Due to the nature of the work, candidates should meet the relevant residency requirements. If applicable, reserved post nationality restrictions will be confirmed by the client. Damia is committed to inclusive recruitment and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.
Due to the secure nature of the position and working environment, you must have, or be eligible to obtain Security Clearance.
More details relating to UK Security Clearance can be found here: United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK
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