Jobs at Canopy Aerospace & Defense

Leads cross-functional engineering, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain teams delivering thermal protection solutions from concept through production. Serves as the technical customer liaison, manages program risks, milestones, budgets, KPIs, and joint development efforts, and supports proposals, feasibility studies, requirements definition, capture activities, and transition to execution. The role requires aerospace or defense technical expertise, customer engagement, security-clearance eligibility, and travel to customer and partner sites.

Leads cross-functional engineering, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain teams delivering thermal protection solutions from concept through production. Serves as customer technical liaison, manages requirements, risks, schedules, budgets, KPIs, and joint development efforts. Supports proposals, feasibility studies, business capture, program transitions, qualification testing, and executive reporting. Requires aerospace, defense, or advanced materials expertise, technical customer engagement, and travel to customer, test, and partner sites.

Quality Engineer responsible for maintaining quality systems, conducting audits and inspections, managing nonconforming materials and MRB processes, completing AS9102 first article inspections, and leading root-cause and corrective-action investigations. The role supports aerospace manufacturing processes, supplier quality, calibration, customer complaints, process improvement, training, and compliance with drawings and specifications. The engineer works closely with production personnel, customers, suppliers, and management in office, laboratory, and manufacturing environments.

Manages employee lifecycle processes, benefits, leave administration, employee relations, compliance, HRIS records, and workplace operations. Leads people initiatives, office administration, vendor relationships, procurement, safety coordination, executive support, and HR process improvements while ensuring compliance with California employment laws.

The Staff Accountant manages general ledger activities, journal entries, reconciliations, month-end and year-end close support, accounts payable, accounts receivable, invoicing, collections, vendor payments, fixed assets, and financial records. The role supports audits, internal controls, GAAP compliance, reporting, administrative processes, and financial data accuracy. This is a full-time, on-site position requiring collaboration across departments and occasional travel to company facilities.

Directs operational technology and IT operations for a regulated aerospace manufacturing facility. Owns manufacturing networks, industrial controls, infrastructure, ERP/MES/PLM integrations, business continuity, CMMC, ITAR, SOC 2, incident response, vendors, budgets, and a site IT/OT team. The role requires hands-on production-floor troubleshooting, compliance evidence, secure OT segmentation, and recovery planning, with on-site leadership in Irvine and support across multiple facilities.

Leads platform-wide procurement strategy across multiple operating companies, develops distributed procurement teams, drives inventory and sourcing cost savings, reduces supplier risk, standardizes Epicor ERP processes, manages KPIs, negotiates supplier agreements, and ensures compliance with government contracting, export control, and quality requirements.

Lead mechanical design and production readiness for composite (phenolic/elastomer) components. Drive prototyping, FEA and hand calculations, failure investigations, process controls, and cross‑functional manufacturing improvements to meet aerospace/defense standards and production goals.

On-site program manager who drives end-to-end lifecycle of aerospace thermal protection systems, aligning cross-functional teams, expediting shop-floor execution, managing ERP data integrity, tracking KPIs, mitigating risks, and supporting customer integration for mission-critical defense and space programs.