Director of Engineering

Build the System Behind Exceptional Engineering

Are you a strategic engineering leader who sees the entire journey from initial concept and tooling strategy through production readiness, continuous improvement, and product sustainment?

At DEMGY , you’ll connect people, processes, and technology across the complete product lifecycle. You’ll create clarity, eliminate inefficiencies, and build scalable engineering systems that improve cost, quality, delivery, and customer outcomes.

Since 1947 , DEMGY has combined the stability and resources of an established global organization with an environment where your ideas, leadership, and results can make a visible impact.

What You’ll Lead

Reporting to the VP of Operations, you’ll provide strategic and operational leadership across Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Tooling, and Project Engineering .

You will:

• Establish and execute an engineering strategy that supports growth, operational excellence, and customer commitments.
• Lead engineering programs from concept and development through production, sustainment, and end-of-life.
• Optimize NPI, production readiness, tooling strategies, manufacturability, and engineering processes.
• Connect Engineering, Quality, Production, Supply Chain, Finance, and Business Development to improve execution across the operation.
• Drive engineering capacity, resource planning, program cost and risk evaluation, and capital and tooling decisions.
• Establish meaningful KPIs and use them to identify bottlenecks, improve performance, and create greater efficiency.
• Provide visible leadership when engineering challenges affect quality, cost, delivery, customers, or compliance.
• Build capable, accountable teams while championing Lean, Kaizen, 5S, safety, and continuous improvement.

You’ll Thrive Here If You…

• Naturally connect people, processes, and priorities .
• Enjoy doing complex work from beginning to end and making every stage more effective.
• See inefficiencies as opportunities to design a better way forward.
• Want autonomy to make decisions and the accountability to deliver results.
• Bring structure to complexity while maintaining speed, collaboration, and high standards.

What You Bring

• Experience in plastics engineering, preferably within aerospace manufacturing.
• Demonstrated success leading complex engineering or manufacturing programs across the full product lifecycle.
• Strong knowledge of injection molding, tooling, manufacturability, process development, and cost modeling.
• Experience with ERP/MRP systems; IQMS experience preferred.
• Advanced proficiency with CATIA and SolidWorks.
• Working knowledge of AS9100 requirements.
• Strong project planning, resource allocation, risk-management, and cross-functional leadership capabilities.

Salary Range:

$120k - $145k

Benefits include:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Long-Term Disability and Supplemental Benefit Coverage Options
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401(k) with Company Matching
• Generous Paid Time Off