Manager Recruitment - Engineering

Role Overview

Manager Recruitment - Engineering at Etihad Airways. This role leads recruitment delivery across one of the most critical areas of the business as Etihad continues its ambitious growth journey.

Company Overview

Etihad Airways is the UAE's national airline shaping the future of global aviation. From its hub in Abu Dhabi, Etihad connects people across continents and cultures while driving its "Journey 2030" ambition to double its fleet, expand its network and grow its people for a new era of excellence.

Role Purpose

To lead recruitment delivery for engineering talent across the organization by building and directing a high-performing recruitment team, executing bold recruitment strategies, and ensuring Etihad remains competitive in attracting, assessing and securing highly skilled engineering professionals in a highly sought-after talent market.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership

• Lead and develop a high-performing Engineering recruitment team.
• Manage, coach and develop recruiters to inspire high performance.

Strategy & Planning

• Create and execute bold recruitment strategies that support Etihad's engineering growth plans.
• Develop innovative attraction campaigns and sourcing strategies to engage top engineering talent globally.
• Build sustainable talent pipelines across licensed engineers, maintenance, technical operations and specialist engineering disciplines.
• Leverage market intelligence and competitor insights to strengthen hiring outcomes.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as a strategic talent advisor to senior engineering leaders and stakeholders.
• Build credibility and influence at senior stakeholder level.
• Deliver exceptional service to both candidates and hiring managers while maintaining pace and quality of hire.

Assessment & Quality

• Drive assessment excellence, ensuring hiring decisions are robust, objective and aligned to business requirements.
• Demonstrate strong understanding of candidate attraction, assessment and selection best practice.

Process Improvement

• Continuously improve recruitment processes, tools and ways of working to enhance performance and efficiency.
• Use data, market insights and innovation to drive recruitment performance.

Qualifications & Experience

• Significant experience leading aviation engineering or engineering recruitment teams.
• Proven expertise recruiting for both high-volume frontline engineering roles and specialist technical positions.
• Deep understanding of engineering talent markets, sourcing strategies and technical assessment methodologies.
• Strong people leadership experience, with a track record of managing, coaching and developing recruiters.
• Experience gained within an airline, MRO, aerospace organization or complex engineering environment.
• Degree educated with extensive experience within Talent Acquisition and recruitment leadership.

Skills & Competencies

• Recognized subject matter expert in engineering recruitment.
• Strategic thinking combined with operational excellence.
• Ability to inspire high performance in your team.
• Passion for finding innovative ways to attract and secure top engineering talent.

Additional Information

The recruitment process for this position involves the following steps

• All applications will be reviewed by a human member of the Recruitment Team.
• Shortlisted applicants will be invited to complete a recorded video interview via HireVue, Etihad's third-party platform. This ensures fairness as all shortlisted candidates are asked the same questions and assessed on their responses.
• After review of completed video interviews, shortlisted candidates will be invited to an initial technical interview with the hiring manager.
• Finalists will be invited to a follow up meeting with additional members of the hiring team, which will include completion of a job-related case study and presentation to the hiring team.
• All candidates will be notified of the status of their application as soon as is possible.