Director of Engineering

Job Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on leadership, coaching, and direction to a multidisciplinary engineering team.
• Led engineering activities for assigned projects, establish priorities, and ensure on-time delivery of engineering commitments.
• Drive accountability, urgency, and follow-through across engineering deliverables, technical decisions, and project execution.
• Partner closely with Manufacturing, Sales, and other cross-functional teams to ensure engineering solutions are practical, manufacturable, and aligned with customer and business needs.
• Identify and improve engineering processes, workflows, handoffs, and decision-making practices to increase quality, speed, and effectiveness.
• Constructively challenge existing practices and lead change where processes, tools, or behaviors are limiting performance.
• Spearhead complex technical challenges to resolution with appropriate rigor, urgency, and cross-functional involvement.
• Lead the development and implementation of an AI-assisted engineering workflow strategy, identifying high-impact use cases across documentation, specification interpretation, and design processes, and driving adoption with the team.
• Apply systems-level thinking to ensure solutions consider mechanical, electrical, software, manufacturing, cost, quality, schedule, and customer impacts.
• Ensure engineering capacity, capability, and skill sets are aligned with current and upcoming projects, products, and markets.
• Implement and monitor engineering performance measures related to quality, timeliness, cost effectiveness, rework, and project execution.
• Support employee development for direct reports and engineering team members, including coaching, performance feedback, and skill development.
• Work closely with Sales on creative solutions, proposals, estimates, and technical feasibility.
• Ensure compliance with ISO 9001 requirements and applicable engineering documentation standards.
• Initiate, lead, and implement continuous improvement activities to improve quality, profitability, execution, and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical field required.
• Advanced degree, such as MS, MBA, or PhD, preferred but not required.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive engineering experience, including engineering leadership experience in a manufacturing or complex systems environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading teams through technical execution, process improvement, and cross-functional problem solving.
• Experience with systems-level design, engineering-to-manufacturing handoffs, production support, and customer-driven technical solutions.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally and obtain a passport.
• Due to federal contract requirements applicable to this position, candidates must be U.S. citizens.

Skills

• Strong hands-on engineering leadership with the ability to engage directly in technical and operational problem solving.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical problem solver with a systems-level perspective.
• Ability to lead with urgency, accountability, and sound judgment.
• Demonstrated ability to challenge the status quo constructively and drive practical, sustainable process improvements.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills with the ability to build trust while holding teams accountable.
• Strong project management capability with a track record of delivering projects on time, within budget, and to quality standards.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to work for extended periods at a computer workstation/keyboard.
• Ability to type accurately and efficiently.
• The role may require regular movement throughout manufacturing and office environments, including walking, standing, and occasional bending, with or without reasonable accommodation.