VP Engineering

The Role

This position serves as the leader of the engineering organization at De-Ice, a company developing an electric de-icing solution.

Responsibilities

• Take a roll-up-your-sleeve approach to solving urgent and difficult challenges.
• Work with the current team, top leadership, and advisors to drive engineering work forward in order to complete certification program and ensure successful transition to production.
• Direct activities across electrical, mechanical, and aerospace engineering teams to ensure that product designs are ready for field deployment and repeatable manufacturing.
• Deliver aerospace system conforming to functional specifications and customer requirements.
• Maintain and/or manage relationships with the customer’s engineering leadership, supply chain, and operations partners to resolve all questions and problems.
• Work closely with certification and aircraft integration functions to ensure effective communication between these groups and the engineering organization.
• Recruit, mentor, and guide a team of highly skilled engineers in a structured aerospace environment.

Requirements

• 15 years or more of professional experience in the aerospace industry including at least 5 years in a leadership role with responsibility for bringing a new system or sub-system from early design into full production.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent.
• Experience managing engineering teams and co-coordinating with interdisciplinary teams.
• High attention to detail and interest in exposure to challenging multidisciplinary engineering.
• Proven experience managing and bringing to market complex aerospace programs such as novel avionics LRUs packages and products which integrate multiple aircraft systems.
• Experience supporting NPI all the way through scaling production.
• Direct experience developing and negotiating supplier contracts and supplier coordination.

Qualifications

• Energetic, driven, creative, and able to respond to unforeseen challenges and conditions.
• Ability to think critically in an ambiguous environment and take end-to-end ownership of work product.

Skills

• Strong leadership skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including salary, stock options, and benefits.

Pay

• Salary range TBD based on experience and qualifications.

Schedule

• Full-time position.

Contact

To apply, please email careers@deice.com with a resume enclosed.