Director Engineering

Job Summary: The Director of Engineering - MTC serves as the senior technical authority for a large ‑ scale, complex program, accountable for the definition, integrity, and execution of the program's complete technical baseline.

This role provides strategic technical leadership through managers across all engineering disciplines to ensure the solution meets customer requirements, program objectives, and long ‑ term mission needs.

The Chief Engineer drives the overarching technical vision, architecture, and risk posture; leads major technical decisions; and ensures engineering execution is aligned with program strategy, cost, and schedule commitments.

Responsibilities and Tasks:


* Proactively identifies and secures the technical resources required to execute a large ‑ scale program, including specialized engineering expertise, critical tools, facilities, and development infrastructure.

Works across organizational boundaries to align resources with program technical needs.


* Ensures technical execution is carried out in a cost ‑ effective manner, driving disciplined engineering practices, design efficiency, and efficient use of program resources while safeguarding system performance, mission effectiveness, and technical integrity.


* Leads the development of highly accurate, risk ‑ informed technical estimates, including engineering scope, performance margins, integration complexity, and technical cost drivers.

Ensures estimates reflect current data, supplier inputs, and evolving program conditions.


* Oversees the creation of technical basis ‑ of ‑ estimate packages and supports program budget development, ensuring that technical content is complete, credible, and aligned with program strategy.

Presents technical justifications to senior leadership with clarity and authority.


* Provides strategic technical workforce planning to ensure the program has the right engineering skills, capacity, and leadership at each phase of execution.

Anticipates future staffing needs based on technical maturity, risk posture, and program lifecycle.


* Evaluates engineering candidates and technical leaders with rigor, ensuring the program is staffed with personnel who possess the depth of experience needed for high ‑ consequence technical execution.

Promotes technical excellence through thoughtful selection and development of talent.


* Facilitates productive technical debate and alternative ‑ trade exploration, using disagreement constructively to sharpen decisions, reduce risk, and broaden engineering perspective.

Ensures technical resolutions balance performance, schedule, cost, and customer priorities.


* Builds and sustains a strong engineering culture characterized by trust, collaboration, and technical ownership.

Promotes cross ‑ discipline integration, transparent communication, and shared responsibility for program success.


* Delegates technical responsibilities effectively across IPT leads, ens...