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The job description provides no specific responsibilities, qualifications, technologies, salary, travel, or clearance requirements. The role is identified only as Director, Operations at an aerospace and defense company.

Leads cross-functional development of aerospace and defense mechanical and energetic systems from design through qualification and production. Responsibilities include project scheduling, technical execution, requirements management, risk mitigation, design reviews, tolerance analysis, verification testing, supplier coordination, customer interaction, and transition to manufacturing. The role also provides technical guidance on schedule, cost, and risks while ensuring compliance with customer and government specifications.

Provides administrative and executive support to two vice presidents through calendar management, travel coordination, meeting scheduling, expense reporting, event coordination, vendor management, and confidential communications. The role also supports facilities projects, office operations, front desk coverage, and cross-department initiatives while developing executive-level coordination skills.

Leads aerospace product development projects from concept through qualification and production. Responsibilities include creating technical data packages and 3D models, performing design trade studies and tolerance analyses, managing requirements and risk, coordinating cross-functional teams, supporting prototype procurement and testing, and interacting with customers and suppliers. The role requires engineering education, technical leadership, CAD and GD&T expertise, strong communication, problem-solving ability, and eligibility for a U.S. DoD security clearance.

Leads strategic missile programs from end to end, overseeing cost, schedule, quality, risk, customer satisfaction, and commercial performance. Serves as the primary customer interface while directing cross-functional aerospace and defense teams. Partners with business leaders on growth, profitability, and strategic objectives, ensuring customer expectations align with internal execution capabilities.

Leads strategic missile programs from customer engagement through execution, owning cost, schedule, quality, risk, and customer satisfaction. Serves as the primary customer interface while directing cross-functional aerospace and defense teams. Partners with business leaders on growth, profitability, and strategic objectives, ensuring alignment between customer expectations and internal capabilities. Requires senior leadership experience managing complex mechanical, electro-mechanical, or energetics programs and strong commercial, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.

Leads enterprise proposal development, government pricing, cost estimating, government accounting, and compliance functions. Oversees proposal quality, forward pricing rates, indirect rate strategies, FAR/DFARS and TINA compliance, DCAA/DCMA relationships, CAS readiness, audit preparedness, and pricing governance. Builds and develops cross-functional teams, standardizes proposal processes, improves estimating quality and cycle times, supports negotiations, and drives continuous improvement across aerospace and defense operations.

The Product Engineer leads products through the production lifecycle, evaluating designs for manufacturability, developing manufacturing documentation, solving process issues, and implementing corrective actions. Responsibilities include tooling and fixture design, automated test fixture development, manufacturing cell layout, PFMEA, Lean improvements, technical risk assessment, customer liaison work, and tracking production milestones. The role interfaces with production, quality, and engineering teams while supporting aerospace and defense manufacturing programs.

Leads development, validation, troubleshooting, and production support for electronic and special test equipment. Develops automated C#/.NET test stands integrating laboratory instruments and SQL databases, interprets test data, performs verification and validation, resolves failures, and completes schematic capture and PCB layout using Altium Designer. Collaborates with engineering, production, technicians, management, and customers.