Head of Design

Company Profile: AXISCADES is a leading, end to end engineering solutions and product company. We bring expertise that caters to the digital, engineering, and smart manufacturing needs of large enterprises. With decades of experience in creating innovative, sustainable, and safer products worldwide, AXISCADES delivers business value across the entire engineering lifecycle.

Our deep domain expertise and engineering solution portfolio covers the complete product development lifecycle from concept evaluation to manufacturing support and certification for the Aerospace, Defence, Heavy Engineering, Automotive, Medical Devices & Industrial Product industries.

AXISCADES is headquartered in Bangalore and has offices across India, North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region. URL:

Job Description for Head of Design / General Manager

Global Experiences:

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in mechanical/ Aeronautical engineering around 20+ years of experience
• Must have overall Technical knowledge on different Airbus / Aero OEM programs
• Must have knowledge on both metallic and composites design.
• Must have sound knowledge on Fuselage, Wing, Empennage, Control Surfaces etc., on structures
• Must be knowledgeable on Airbus Methods and applicable procedures for respective application
• Knowledge on Aerospace Stress activities.
• Knowledge on various ATA chapters.
• Knowledge on Technical measures at each stage with Metrics
• Experienced on Aerospace related Tools (softwares/PDMs etc.,)
• Knowledge on Product Design, Plant Engineering, Repair Activities, Tool Design, Mfg. Engineering, Manufacturing, MROs, Aerospace Systems ES, MSI etc.,
• Should be capable on Detailed technical write ups and Efforts estimations for technical proposals

DOA and Technical Expectations:

• Should have a clear understanding on Design Regulatory requirements for aero domain
• (Technical signatory approvers, Airworthiness, CVE etc., as per EASA / Airbus A1020 / FAA / CAA / DGCA / CEMILAC).
• Knowledge on FAR 21 G, FAR 21 J and other Supplementary Type Certifications and its Requirements
• Necessary to go through and understand the DOA requirements under project specification / TDS.
• Responsible for ensuring signatory delegation process (SDP) as per A1020 / M1020 requirements.
• Accountable to review the WPL recommendation / requests on DOA scope.
• Accountable to review independently the nominee's necessary qualification before proposing them to HOE
• Accountable to ensure the deliverables of the signatories meeting the design requirements.
• Accountable for independent technical reviews and to ensure the applicable compliances
• Accountable to identify and provide required trainings and close monitoring of the effectiveness during mentoring phase.
• Accountable to review monthly data of all the nominees & signatories as per audit / compliances requirements through logbooks, to take appropriate actions on Non-Quality, Non-conformance and KPI deviations as per A1020 / M1020 requirements and report to HOE during internal meetings, Internal and External Audits
• Accountable to review safety occurrences reported from the projects and recommend for final review by HOE
• Co-ordinate with QA Department on process compliances / requirements.
• Co-ordinate with WPLs to improvement on Quality metrics.
• Co-ordinate with PMO to collect Logbooks to maintain nominees / Signatories data trackers.
• Maintaining the list of nominees and signatories through CTPS record.
• Responsible to support HOE at every stage in ensuring the design organization requirements during technical audits, Technical proposals preparation, Developing technical skills on new areas etc., etc.,
• Should be pro-active on Technical Initiatives (like CI, Digital initiatives etc.,) & best Practices

Other Preferable Skills:

• Good communication
• Presentation skills
• Project Management
• Risks and Mitigations
• Problem solving skills

Innovations / Global paper publications etc.,