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Lead Defense quality engineering across multiple sites, ensuring AS9100-compliant QMS, audit readiness, supplier quality, root-cause corrective actions, and alignment to enterprise quality architecture for defense hardware and programs.

Leads mechanical aerospace development engineering from concept through deployment, including test planning, prototype development, instrumentation, data analysis, test reporting, customer engagement, proposals, and technical risk reduction. Supports schedule, budget, and technical performance objectives while mentoring junior engineers. Requires aerospace or defense experience, mechanical or aerospace engineering expertise, SolidWorks, GD&T, test leadership, and a current or obtainable DoD Secret clearance.

Supports quality engineering across aerospace design, development, testing, qualification, and production. Develops quality plans, inspection methodologies, customer review materials, and technical data packages. Performs in-process and AS9102 inspections, reviews purchase-order quality flow-downs, resolves corrective actions and nonconformances, leads root-cause investigations, and assesses supply-chain risk. Ensures aerospace structures and systems meet technical, contractual, certification, and quality requirements.

Leads the operational and people-management foundation of a functional engineering group. Responsibilities include resource planning, allocation, scheduling, utilization tracking, engineering work-package scoping, standards and training coordination, qualification tracking, and staff development. The role manages performance, coaching, career progression, onboarding, timekeeping, and HR coordination while partnering with technical experts across aerospace and defense programs.

Leads enterprise integration for acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, and major transformations. Develops integration playbooks and plans, coordinates cross-functional workstreams, governs Day 1 through post-integration activities, resolves readiness and operating-model issues, and manages value realization. Partners with corporate and functional leaders to ensure financial, operational, legal, technology, people, compliance, and site readiness while building an enterprise integration office and executive reporting framework.

Supports product designs from development through production by assessing producibility, validating manufacturing processes, developing tooling and inspection gauges, creating bills of materials and work instructions, planning workflows and resources, troubleshooting production issues, and supporting prototype builds and continuous improvement. The role requires collaboration with design, engineering, and production teams in a fabrication and assembly environment.

Leads aerospace and defense programs from planning and development through qualification, production, delivery, and contract completion. Manages cost, schedule, technical, quality, contractual, and customer objectives while coordinating engineering, operations, supply chain, finance, quality, contracts, and test teams. Interfaces with customers, prime contractors, government stakeholders, suppliers, and leadership; manages risks, program reviews, deliverables, changes, proposals, negotiations, and growth opportunities.

Lead engineering teams to deliver mechanical and pyrotechnic components and systems, manage cost/schedule/technical objectives, run project planning, lead customer interactions, support proposals and business development, and mentor junior engineers.

Senior financial leader overseeing site financial strategy, reporting, controls, and finance team. Drives budgeting, forecasting, cash management, compliance (SOX, FAR/DFARS), supports audits, investor communications, and partners with site leadership on strategic and operational decisions.

Lead transition of designs into production ensuring manufacturability and product quality. Develop work/build instructions, BOMs, fixtures, tools, and inspection gages. Validate and monitor fabrication/process controls, plan workflow and shop layout, coordinate suppliers and supplier quality, assist prototype builds, and support materials/process evaluations within AS9100/ISO quality systems.