Director, Engineering Excellence & Design Standards

We are seeking a senior technical leader to define and operationalize engineering design standards across the company. This position is focused on establishing engineering excellence—driving consistency, rigor, and scalability across design, analysis, certification, CAD, documentation, and configuration management. 

This is a high-impact individual contributor role with broad scope across multiple engineering disciplines, responsible for raising the bar on engineering quality without slowing down execution. 

Establish and own engineering design standards across programs, including XBAT and VBAT 

Define and standardize best practices for aerospace design, analysis workflows, and system-level engineering rigor  

Develop standards for CAD usage, drawing quality, standard notes, release processes, and engineering documentation 

Manufacturing & supply chain handoff including EBOM and MBOM creation along with driving part demand

Build and mature an engineering excellence framework that scales with the company  

Partner with engineering leadership to align teams on consistent ways of working  

Ensure standards are practical, accessible, and consistently applied across teams  

Influence design decisions and engineering processes across disciplines without becoming a bottleneck  

Support both near-term program execution and long-term scalability of engineering processes  

Drive improvements in configuration management, documentation quality, and design consistency  

Ability to obtain a S//SAR level security clearance desired.