Sr Director Engineering

The Sr. Director of Project Engineering serves as the enterprise-wide leader responsible for developing, standardizing, and advancing the Project Engineering and Chief Engineering functions across the organization. This role establishes the tools, processes, training, and technical development framework that enables Engineering teams to deliver high-quality, technically rigorous program execution aligned with Business Unit and Product Line strategies. The Sr. Director provides the long term roadmap and execution strategy for Project Engineering excellence, defining clear skills and competencies, implementing modern engineering tools and workflows, and driving continuous improvement in technical leadership and complex problem solving.

This role works cross functionally to ensure engineering practices, governance, and technical decision making remain tightly aligned with business priorities, customer requirements, and the company’s product portfolio. This position directly leads the Functional Managers for Project Engineering, the organization’s senior technical experts and Technical Fellows, and guides the company’s Engineering AI priorities and implementation strategy within the Project Engineering domain.

The Sr. Director facilitates monthly Chief Engineer Round Tables and quarterly Project Engineering Round Tables, maintaining a strong center of excellence and fostering collaboration, consistency, and technical depth across the enterprise.

The ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance), Aviation, and Security (IAS) business area is a leader in ISR and aviation, it is a leading prime manned and unmanned aircraft systems integrator for innovative, high-performance ISR and aviation systems. Its end-to-end Command, Control, Computers, Communications and Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (C4

ISR) capabilities encompass design, integration, test, certification, ground/flight training and complete logistics support. IAS tailors solutions to customer cost, performance, and schedule requirements and designs to consistently exceed expectations – with an unrivaled record of on time and on (or under) budget deliveries.

• Lead the enterprise-wide strategy, development, and continuous improvement of Project Engineering tools, processes, and technical methodologies.
• Define and maintain a clear skills and competency framework for Chief Engineers, Project Engineers, and technical leaders across the organization.
• Establish standardized engineering workflows, technical review processes, and governance practices to improve execution consistency and program performance across Business Units and Product Lines.
• Partner with Business Unit Engineering Directors, Program Teams, and Product Line leadership to ensure Project Engineering capabilities, staffing, and tools are aligned with current and future business strategies.
• Directly lead and mentor Functional Managers responsible for Project Engineering teams, ensuring effective talent development, resource planning, and organizational health.
• Provide leadership and oversight to the company’s Technical Fellows and senior technical SMEs to strengthen enterprise technical depth and cross-functional collaboration.
• Define and drive the company’s Engineering AI strategy, work with all engineering functions to increase capability development, implementation roadmaps, and adoption across programs.
• Sponsor and lead enterprise Chief Engineer Round Tables on a monthly basis, ensuring knowledge sharing, cross-program technical alignment, and rapid escalation/resolution of engineering issues.
• Facilitate quarterly Project Engineering Round Tables to reinforce standardized practice, share lessons learned, and provide a center of excellence for Project Engineering across the enterprise.
• Provide executive-level technical guidance, decision-making support, and problem-solving leadership for complex engineering challenges that cross program or organizational boundaries.
• Collaborate with other engineering functions to establish KPIs, maturity models, and performance metrics to measure engineering process effectiveness, team capability progression, and tool…