Director, Engineering Excellence

Director, Engineering Excellence

The successful candidate will be part of a team that is in the process of expanding a dynamic company which is in the process of disrupting one of the most exciting underlying markets in the last 50 years and that is the infrastructure needed for the expansion of AI.

This role leads a critical function in raising the technical bar across the engineering organization. As XNRGY scales the development and delivery of mission-critical air handling and liquid cooling products – including the XnChiller platform, the growth engine of the company – product reliability, design quality, and engineering discipline become direct drivers of revenue, margin, and client trust. The Engineering Excellence Director will build the standards, methodologies, and capabilities that allow the fast-growing industrial manufacturing company in North America to scale – a company that will exceed one billion in revenue faster than Tesla was able to achieve that milestone.

The Engineering Excellence Director is responsible for driving technical excellence, engineering best practices, product reliability, and continuous improvement across the engineering organization. The role develops and implements engineering standards, methodologies, tools, and governance processes that improve product quality, reliability, manufacturability, and engineering efficiency.

The position serves as the Company's center of excellence for Engineering Processes, Reliability Engineering, Six Sigma Methodologies, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Design Verification, and Continuous Improvement. This is both a strategic and hands-on role: the successful candidate will set the engineering quality agenda, coach and develop engineering teams across the Mesa, Arizona and Saint-Hubert, Québec operations, and ensure that simulation, testing, and field performance tell one consistent story about every product XNRGY ships.

Develop and maintain engineering standards, procedures, and best practices across all product platforms. Establish engineering design governance, including design review methodologies and technical gate reviews embedded in the stage-gate process. Promote engineering consistency between product lines and sites. Drive engineering maturity assessments and the improvement initiatives that follow from them

Develop and implement product reliability strategies, requirements, and reliability growth programs. Lead Design and Process FMEA activities and define reliability testing and accelerated life testing methodologies. Establish reliability prediction methodologies for critical components and systems. Analyze field performance data, drive corrective actions, and support warranty reduction and product robustness initiatives – essential for mission-critical data center applications where uptime is the client's first requirement

Develop company standards for structural, thermal, vibration, and fatigue analysis. Establish FEA validation and correlation methodologies; review and approve simulation methodologies and assumptions. Support critical product development programs with advanced engineering analysis and develop engineering guidelines for structural integrity and mechanical robustness. Champion simulation-driven design practices that shorten development cycles and reduce prototype iterations

Lead Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) initiatives and promote statistical engineering methodologies throughout product development. Apply DMAIC methodologies to engineering improvement projects and facilitate root cause investigations using Six Sigma tools. Establish process capability and variation reduction programs. Train engineering teams in statistical analysis and structured problem-solving methodologies

Establish verification and validation standards and define engineering test requirements and methodologies. Ensure proper correlation between simulation, laboratory testing, and field performance. Support product certification and qualification activities,…