Director, Engineering Excellence & Design Standards

We are seeking a senior technical leader to define and operationalize engineering design standards across the company. This position is focused on establishing engineering excellence—driving consistency, rigor, and scalability across design, analysis, certification, CAD, documentation, and configuration management.

This is a high-impact individual contributor role with broad scope across multiple engineering disciplines, responsible for raising the bar on engineering quality without slowing down execution.

• Establish and own engineering design standards across programs, including XBAT and VBAT

• Define and standardize best practices for aerospace design, analysis workflows, and system-level engineering rigor

• Develop standards for CAD usage, drawing quality, standard notes, release processes, and engineering documentation

• Manufacturing & supply chain handoff including EBOM and MBOM creation along with driving part demand

• Build and mature an engineering excellence framework that scales with the company

• Partner with engineering leadership to align teams on consistent ways of working

• Ensure standards are practical, accessible, and consistently applied across teams

• Influence design decisions and engineering processes across disciplines without becoming a bottleneck

• Support both near-term program execution and long-term scalability of engineering processes

• Drive improvements in configuration management, documentation quality, and design consistency