Director of Engineering
About The Position
StoneAge Holdings is the global leader in designing and manufacturing high-pressure waterblast tooling and automated, IoT-enabled/robotic equipment, based in Durango, CO, with five subsidiaries in four countries. Think squirt guns on steroids run by humans and robots!StoneAge Holdings includes StoneAge Tools and Warthog Nozzles, trusted brands known worldwide for their durability, performance, and innovation in industrial cleaning applications. We are an innovative, employee-owned company that aims to change our industry and the world through advancing technical products and services – and with our unique, people-centric culture. DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING Builder of Scalable, Reliable Systems –––––––––––––––––––– Why This Role Exists StoneAge’s ability to drive adoption of automation depends on trust. Trust is earned through reliability, ease of use, diagnostics, and execution discipline. This role exists to build engineering systems that make automation scalable and credible as adoption accelerates. Engineering at StoneAge is not about isolated products. It is about building integrated systems that support an ecosystem and deliver on the StoneAge Assurance Promise every day. One Sentence Outcome Build a predictable, scalable engineering system that consistently delivers reliable, easy-to-use automation solutions, enabling adoption at scale while protecting StoneAge’s credibility and category leadership.
Requirements
- A systems thinker who brings order without killing innovation.
- Experienced in leading engineering teams delivering complex physical products and/or embedded systems. Automation or IoT-adjacent experience is a plus.
- Calm under pressure. You make clear tradeoffs and deliver.
- A strong people leader who develops talent, sets standards, and builds capability.
- Low ego, high standards, trusted across functions.
- Comfortable balancing speed, quality, and scalability without losing credibility.
- Aligned with ownership mindset and long-term value creation.
- Proven ability to build predictable engineering systems, not just solve technical problems.
- Strong orientation toward reliability, ease of use, and diagnostics.
- Willingness to make hard tradeoffs in service of adoption and execution discipline.
- Deep respect for cross-functional collaboration.
- Owns delivery and quality.
Nice To Haves
- Automation or IoT-adjacent experience is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Designing and leading the engineering operating system, including roadmap, priorities, execution cadence, decision forums, and accountability.
- Designing and enforcing engineering standards, review mechanisms, and release gates to ensure reliability, diagnostics, and are ready for real-world deployment at scale.
- Building platform and system architectures that support the StoneAge automation ecosystem strategy.
- Lead a cross functional engineering and technical team across mechanical, electrical, software and firmware.
- Partnering tightly with product, operations, sales, and marketing to support automation adoption and execution while meeting committed launch times.
- Protecting the StoneAge Assurance Promise through disciplined engineering practices and quality standards.
- Owning a consistent product and service launch cadence that reinforces category leadership.
- Owning engineering’s role in the company’s intellectual property portfolio, including invention disclosure, patent strategy, filings, and ongoing maintenance in partnership with the IP Admin team and external counsel.
Benefits
- We are an employee-owned company with profit-sharing and an Employee Stock Ownership Plan ("ESOP"), in which shares of company stock are allocated to eligible employees each year.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
