Engineering Manager at Armtec Defense Technologies – Coachella, California

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