What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineering Director position at Gradel Professional Search?
Gradel Pro Search (GPS) is an Industrial Search and Recruiting Services firm partnering with manufacturing, aerospace & defense, engineered products, chemicals, and industrial organizations to identify and align talent with critical business objectives.
Relationships. Guidance. Success.
We work with Fortune 500 companies, global enterprises, private equity-backed organizations, and growth-oriented manufacturers, navigating hiring across complex operational and technical environments.
Our client is a growth-oriented contract metals fabrication manufacturer seeking a Director of Engineering to lead engineering strategy, NPI, sustaining engineering, process scalability, and long-term operational capability development across a multi-site manufacturing environment.
This role will play a key part in building, scaling, and optimizing manufacturing processes, quality systems, sustaining engineering initiatives, engineering workflows, and operational infrastructure supporting continued growth, customer performance expectations, efficiency, and long-term sustainability initiatives within a collaborative, team-oriented culture.
Responsibilities
Relationships. Guidance. Success.
We work with Fortune 500 companies, global enterprises, private equity-backed organizations, and growth-oriented manufacturers, navigating hiring across complex operational and technical environments.
Our client is a growth-oriented contract metals fabrication manufacturer seeking a Director of Engineering to lead engineering strategy, NPI, sustaining engineering, process scalability, and long-term operational capability development across a multi-site manufacturing environment.
This role will play a key part in building, scaling, and optimizing manufacturing processes, quality systems, sustaining engineering initiatives, engineering workflows, and operational infrastructure supporting continued growth, customer performance expectations, efficiency, and long-term sustainability initiatives within a collaborative, team-oriented culture.
Responsibilities
- Lead engineering strategy and execution across multi-site manufacturing operations
- Drive manufacturing readiness, process optimization, sustaining engineering, and operational scalability initiatives
- Support strategic development of manufacturing infrastructure, quality systems, and engineering workflows
- Partner closely with operations, manufacturing, quality, and executive leadership to support production performance and long-term growth initiatives
- Lead engineering support activities tied to process improvement, operational efficiency, quality performance, and customer requirements
- Support development and execution of continuous improvement initiatives across engineering and manufacturing operations
- Drive collaboration across engineering, production, quality, and supply chain teams to improve execution and operational performance
- Support technical problem-solving, manufacturing process development, and production support activities
- Lead and develop engineering teams within a fast-paced precision manufacturing environment
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required
- Engineering leadership experience within precision metals fabrication or highly technical manufacturing environments - AS9100 or ISO 13485
- Strong experience supporting manufacturing operations, process development, sustaining engineering, and operational scalability
- Experience supporting quality systems, continuous improvement initiatives, and manufacturing process optimization
- Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills within collaborative manufacturing environments
- Experience leading engineering teams across complex manufacturing operations
- Ability to support operational growth, manufacturing efficiency, and customer-driven technical requirements