Technical Project Coordinator - Defense & Aerospace

Technical Project Coordinator - Defense & Aerospace

Calnetix is an engineering and manufacturing company located in Southern California, committed to making a positive contribution to society and the environment by changing the way the world harvests and utilizes energy. We are focused on developing, manufacturing, and delivering advanced energy solutions for commercial applications throughout the world and for mission‑critical applications for the United States Government and its Prime Contractors.

Calnetix thrives on innovation and meeting new challenges. In partnership with OEMs, we utilize innovative, proprietary high‑speed electric motor‑generator technologies to develop next‑generation, power‑dense and energy‑efficient products that reduce energy consumption, harmful emissions and enhance energy security.

The Technical Project Coordinator – Defense & Aerospace enables engineering execution by ensuring that documentation, compliance requirements, technical writing, and program logistics are handled in a disciplined, traceable, and structured manner. This role supports engineering rigor, documentation quality, specification compliance, and fast‑moving program execution across multiple engineering work streams.

This role requires technical intuition, structured writing ability, engineering literacy, and strong follow‑through. The successful candidate will support engineering teams by enabling clarity, control, document discipline, and forward momentum — not by managing people, but by removing friction.

• Draft, review, and format engineering reports, proposals, whitepapers, test summaries, and presentation materials.
• Translate detailed engineering content into clear, structured technical documentation.
• Ensure documentation meets customer formatting and compliance requirements.
• Assist with drafting proposal sections, RFP/RFI responses, and technical statements of work.
• Help engineers maintain consistent document standards and formatting quality.

• Support review and interpretation of customer specifications and requirements.
• Help create and maintain specification compliance matrices / requirement mapping tables.
• Assist engineering leads in tracking open compliance items and required responses.
• Maintain logs for compliance gaps, questions, and follow‑up actions.
• Support the extraction of technical requirements from contract documents.

• Take action‑driven meeting minutes ("who / what / when").
• Maintain deliverables logs, action item lists, and internal status reports.
• Gather status updates from work streams and convert them into structured reports for internal reporting.
• Provide logistical support for engineering tasks to keep execution moving efficiently, including purchasing/buying, program‑related research, organizing team training, and test documentation support.
• Ensure proper IP markings, export control tags, distribution statements, and confidentiality notices.
• Organize and format drawing packages, BOMs, calculation files, and review checklists.
• Coordinate internal routing for approval and ensure traceability before release.

Works closely with the General Counsel to:

• Maintain a structured action item list of outstanding legal/security/contract‑related questions and help coordinate completion of open items.
• Manage, coordinate, and track the handling of sensitive information.
• Maintain a release‑clearance checklist for customer‑facing documentation.
• Help train engineers on security‑related matters.

• BSc in Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, Technical Management, or a related discipline.
• 2-6 years of experience in technical writing, engineering coordination, proposal support, or project documentation roles.
• Experience preparing, reviewing, or editing technical documentation (reports, drawings, BOMs, presentations).
• Excellent written communication skills with attention to clarity, formatting, and compliance.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to follow structured procedures.
• Familiarity with MIL/NAVSEA specifications or…