Description Preferred Candidate Identified Core Responsibilities: * Lead and supervise the NPI engineering team * Supervisory tasks including daily team performance oversight, hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and personal development of direct reports with primarily technical duties * Be an engaged leader to direct reports to ensure open communication, and sustain a stable support team * Perform individual contributor engineering tasks (ex. lead NPI projects, fixture/gage/process design & troubleshooting, material disposition) * Oversee performance metrics, and apply countermeasures as needed (ex. NPI schedule performance) * Participate in strategy development, deployment and execution * Must interface with all internal organizational groups, vendors, and customers. * Maintain strong communication with customers, internal management team, & vendors to ensure quality, schedule & financial goals are met * Create, deploy, execute, and improve business processes compliant to requirements (self & direct reports) * Support new product introduction efforts to integrate new items into production * Other duties as assigned Qualifications: * Minimum 5 years individual engineering support in a manufacturing environment * Minimum 5 years technical team or project management * Excellent written and verbal communication * Capable of challenging and critical conversations with teams and individuals * Experience navigating a complex organization to ensure the success of projects with evolving needs * Project management experience with a proven track record of scheduling and organizing people effectively to complete assigned functions * Proficient at reading, analyzing, and interpreting customer drawings, specifications, procedures, and standards * Proficient with computer systems and basic software, experience with CAD (Solid Works, NX, AutoCAD, or similar) * Ideal candidates also possess: o Machining, press/forming, welding, brazing, heat-treat, and inspection experience o Die, tool, fixture, and gage design experience o Minimum 5 years in aerospace industry o Experience optimizing high mix / low volume production o Continuous Improvement, Lean and Six Sigma experience Education Requirements: * BS Degree in a technical field (engineering, manufacturing/industrial technology) * Ideal candidate has additional education/training in engineering, manufacturing, business administration and project management 41 CFR 60-1.35(c) Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.