Director of Engineering

For nearly a century, Simmonds Precision has been helping shape the future of flight from our home in Vergennes, Vermont. Today, our technologies are trusted across hundreds of commercial and military aircraft platforms worldwide, helping aircraft operate safely, reliably, and efficiently.

At Simmonds Precision, we design and manufacture advanced sensing, monitoring, fuel management, and precision control technologies that solve some of aerospace’s most demanding challenges. Behind every solution is a team of talented people who bring together engineering expertise, advanced manufacturing, craftsmanship, and a drive to innovate.

When you join Simmonds Precision, you’re not just taking the next step in your career, you’re contributing to technology that takes flight around the world. Whether your expertise is in engineering, manufacturing, quality, operations, or business support, there’s an opportunity to make your mark.

Find your next opportunity where precision meets possibility—and build your career in aerospace with Simmonds Precision.

The Director of Engineering – Fuels and Proximity is responsible for translating business-unit strategy into effective engineering execution across the fuel sensing and proximity sensing product portfolios. This position supports the Business Unit Manager by providing technical leadership for the portfolio and ensuring that customer needs, product strategies, and business objectives are converted into clear engineering priorities and executable plans.

The Director will lead the development of robust technical solutions to customer problems and requirements while ensuring predictable delivery against schedule, cost, quality, and performance commitments. This role requires strong technical rigor, disciplined resource management, proactive risk identification, and close engagement with customers to understand their current and future needs.

The Director is also responsible for building a high-performing engineering organization by developing employees, strengthening technical and leadership capabilities, and establishing effective succession plans for key roles.

• Support the Business Unit Manager by leading the fuel sensing and proximity sensing portfolios from a technical and engineering perspective.
• Translate business-unit strategy, customer requirements, and product-growth objectives into engineering priorities, product roadmaps, milestones, and execution plans.
• Maintain a close working relationship with customers to understand their technical challenges, operational needs, emerging requirements, and future product expectations.
• Lead the development of robust, reliable, producible, and cost-effective solutions to customer problems and requirements.
• Ensure engineering programs and customer commitments are delivered predictably, meeting schedule, cost, quality, technical-performance, and regulatory requirements.
• Establish clear program objectives, engineering plans, resource requirements, and accountability for execution.
• Identify technical, schedule, cost, and resource risks early and drive mitigation actions before they affect customer or business commitments.
• Provide technical leadership and oversight for new-product development, product redesign, technology development, product sustainment, obsolescence management, and customer technical support.
• Ensure appropriate technical rigor through disciplined design reviews, analysis, testing, verification, validation, qualification, and configuration management.
• Partner across Engineering, Sales and Marketing, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, Sales, and Finance to ensure alignment and successful execution of business-unit priorities.
• Drive engineering productivity through design…