Director, Engineering

About All Clear Aerospace & Defense

All Clear Aerospace & Defense is the military aviation aftermarket industry’s leading provider of mission‑ready solutions. We provide excellence in sustainment for the U.S. militaries and its allies. Headquartered in Miramar, Florida, All Clear’s sustainment solutions cover over 25 of the most utilized military aircraft platforms, supported with distribution agreements from leading OEMs, in‑house and managed repair services, engineered products, manufacturing, and logistics solutions.

Director, Engineering – Camarillo, CA. Regular, Full‑Time;
Exempt. This role serves as the leader for all engineering‑focused operations to include workforce planning, capital, and facilities integration, and execution of strategic engineering initiatives. It works cross‑functionally with manufacturing, quality, supply chain, finance, logistics, commercial and outside processing vendors, driving a daily sense of urgency.

• Provide strategic planning and direction by managing the people, processes, and tools to execute current, planned, and projected work.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to achieve on‑time delivery and project targets.
• Manage the end‑to‑end product development lifecycle, from ideation to release, ensuring timely and high‑quality product delivery.
• Establish and enforce engineering best practices, processes, and standards to ensure high quality product development.
• Establish procedures that ensure engineering personnel utilize a structured product development process to create product designs that meet the specified requirements, are fully documented, and can be manufactured meeting cost and schedule.
• Lead efforts to determine feasibility, risk and effort associated with product development.
• Actively manage programs and schedule risk associated with relevant projects.
• Define and track key product metrics with the intent of identifying product and process improvements.
• Work closely with interdepartmental leaders to optimize processes and drive business acumen throughout the organization.
• Conduct root cause analysis and implement preventive actions driving operational excellence.
• Implement visual and daily management through continuous improvement culture, driving considerably more standard work, thereby reducing variation.
• Drive safety first culture.
• Foster a data‑driven culture focused on analytics and predictive tools to facilitate decision making process.
• Set priorities and delegate work within the department.
• Coordinate with customer‑facing teams to resolve operational customer complaints and non‑conformance and lead the identification & implementation of corrective/preventive measures.
• Maintain an audit‑ready operation and participate in external audits as required.
• Participate on committees and special projects and seek additional responsibilities.
• Perform other related duties as assigned by management.

• Directly supervise non‑exempt and exempt employees.
• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws.
• Provides leadership, communication, and coaching to employees; cultivates a motivated employee environment of trust, teamwork, accountability, self‑confidence, and business ownership.
• Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems; managing cross‑training matrix and plan.

• Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) in manufacturing engineering (or another engineering discipline).
• Master’s degree (M.S.) in engineering discipline desired.
• Ten (10) + years of manufacturing experience, preferably in an aerospace environment.
• Minimum of 5 years in recent leadership capacity.
• Experience with fast‑paced manufacturing environment.
• Experience in design and manufacturing engineering.
• Working knowledge of build‑to‑print packages and assembly drawing documents.
• Ability to work on complex projects with general direction and minimal guidance.
• Experience in Lean/Six Sigma, 6S, and…