Engineering Manager

Coachella, CA
Full Time
CAO - Engineering
Experienced
Engineering Manager, Armtec Defense Technologies
Armtec Defense Technologies (Armtec) is an operating unit of the Transdigm Group (NYSE: TDG), an industry leader in aerospace and defense products and services. Armtec is comprised of three business units producing subcomponents for ordnance in Coachella, CA; decoy countermeasure flares in Camden AR; and radar countermeasure chaff in Lillington NC. At Armtec, we welcome skilled and enthusiastic people who share our determination and high standards to join us in our mission-critical work supporting the US and allied war-fighters who serve us all by defending democracy and protecting freedom. This position is staffed in Coachella, at Armtec’s world-class, sole-source production facility for felted fiber nitrocellulose combustible cartridge cases for medium and large caliber military ammunition; and pyrophoric payloads for training grenades.

Company Profile
Company: Armtec Defense Technologies is an operating unit of the TransDigm Group (NYSE: TDG).
Industry: Manufacturing Combustible Ordnance and Countermeasures

Job Overview
Title: Engineering Manager
Job Family: Engineering Managers
Reports to: Vice President of Engineering
Works with: mid-level managers and supervisors, employees
Location: Coachella, California
Type:  Full-Time

Job Summary
The Engineering Manager is responsible for translating company strategy into effective engineering execution. This role ensures strong technical rigor, predictable delivery, disciplined resource management, and a healthy engineering culture while developing mid-level managers and technical leaders.

Key Characteristics

Engineering Execution and Delivery
  • Ability to ensure engineering projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to quality requirements.
  • Translates strategic objectives into clear priorities, milestones, and execution plans.
  • Identifies risks early and drives mitigation before they impact cost, schedule, or performance.
Technical Leadership and Rigor
  • Demonstrates deep technical judgment and the ability to set standards for sound engineering practice.
  • Ensures designs, processes, and changes meet internal, customer, and regulatory requirements.
  • Promotes data-driven decision making and continuous technical improvement.
People & Team Leadership
  • Effectively leads and develops engineering managers and technical staff.
  • Creates clarify around roles, expectations, and accountability.
  • Builds trust, psychological safety, and professional respect across the engineering organization.
Communication & Stakeholder Alignment
  • Clearly communicates tatus, risks, and priorities to executive leadership and cross-functional partners.
  • Ensures leadership has timely, accurate visibility into engineering performance and issues.
  • Represents engineering effectively in cross-functional and customer-facing discussions.
Resource and Capacity Management
  • Manages engineering staffing, workload balance, and prioritization to maximize impact.
  • Makes tradeoff decisions when resources are constrained and escalates appropriately.
  • Ensures effective use of budget, tools, and engineering assets.
Process, Metrics & Continuous Improvement
  • Establishes and uses KPIs to monitor productivity, quality, and delivery performance.
  • Improves engineering workflows, review, and governance to increase predictability and efficiency.
  • Ensures lessons learned are captured and applied across teams.
Talent Development & Succession
  • Attracts, retains, and develops high-performing engineering talent.
  • Conducts performance reviews and creates meaningful development plans.
  • Builds bench strength for future technical and leadership roles.
 
Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s Degree in the field of Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, or other relevant field is required.  Advanced technical or business degree is highly desirable.
  • 12+ years of engineering experience in production or defense industries.
  • Strong foundation in engineering theory and practice, with the ability to apply first principles, data-driven analysis, and sound technical judgment to guide design decisions, troubleshoot complex problems, and challenge assumptions across multiple engineering disciplines.
  • Proven people and execution leadership, including experience managing managers, setting clear priorities and accountability, communicating status and risks effectively to leadership, and consistently delivering results through delegation and team development.
  • Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
  • To conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorization from the U.S. Government
Armtec Competencies
  • Demonstrate ability in the Armtec competencies as a senior leader: timely/quality decisions, delegation, develops direct reports, process management, innovation management, business acumen, intellectual horsepower, learning on the fly, hiring and staffing.
Work Hours
4/10 workweek

To Apply
Please apply on-line on the Armtec Career Website, www.armtecdefense.com  

Equal Opportunity Employer including disability and protected veteran status.

Salary Range: $110,387 - $153,138/Annual

Benefits
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Health Savings Account (HSA) with generous company contribution
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA - Medical & Dependent Care)
  • Life and Accident Death and Dismemberment Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • Parent Leave Pay
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Vacation
  • Sick Leave
  • Holidays (8 paid holiday including holiday shutdown weeks in July and December)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Tuition Assistance


 
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