Division IPT Lead

Moog Inc.•Torrance, CA

2d•$140,000 - $190,000•Onsite

About The Position

Moog is a performance culture that empowers people to achieve great things. Our people enjoy solving interesting technical challenges in a culture where everyone trusts each other to do the right thing. For you, working with us can mean deeper job satisfaction, better rewards, and a great quality of life inside and outside of work. This position requires access to United States Export Controlled information and the ability to obtain a US SECRET security clearance. The Division IPT Lead reports to the IPTL Senior Engineering Manager. It is an over-arching global role with accountability for ensuring the technical and engineering execution performance over the full product lifecycle. Depending on the need, the role is intended to be tailored to provide oversight for either (1) a given customer’s book of business with Moog, or (2) a given platform’s development efforts through NPI phases and into low/full rate production. Embracing the mindset of “One Moog Team,” the IPT Lead team is committed to leading a team of highly skilled, cross-disciplinary technical professionals, driving the creation of innovative solutions to technical challenges while upholding our commitments to both internal and external customers. This is facilitated by cultivating an atmosphere that values everyone’s unique contributions by encouraging open collaboration, fostering mutual trust and respect, and emphasizing accountability. The Division IPT Lead is the customer’s primary technical point of contact and is responsible for maintaining the proper balance between the customer’s satisfaction and Moog’s contracted scope of work. The Division IPT Lead is responsible for ensuring the technical compliance of critical system attributes like safety, reliability, performance, and producibility for Moog products in development and/or production in support of a given customer or platform. She/he coordinates the technical interactions between Design and Product Support Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, and Quality organizations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Systems, Software, or Aerospace)
12+ years of experience in the aerospace industry or a closely related field with 5+ years on development programs
Proven ability to apply rigorous program‑control discipline, including use of EVM, critical path analysis, and cost/price fundamentals, along with leading and validating CEACs, variance analyses, and Return‑to‑Green plans.
Strong business and financial acumen, with the ability to influence technical and strategic decisions in fast‑paced, high‑pressure environments.
Exceptional communication, decision‑making, and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to engage effectively at all organizational levels.
Proven track record leading multidisciplinary engineering teams across distributed or geographically separated locations.
Ability to travel up to 25% and work onsite full‑time in East Aurora, NY or Torrance, CA.
This position requires access to United States Export Controlled information and the ability to obtain a US SECRET security clearance.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree in Engineering or Applied Science.
Experience leading large‑scale aerospace NPI programs.
Experience leading design trades to balance safety, performance, and manufacturability, making upfront decisions that align designs with manufacturing and test capabilities to support reliable, on‑schedule NPI and full‑rate production.
Customer‑facing experience leading cross‑functional trade studies to define system architectures and actuation solutions that meet performance, safety, and certification requirements.
Senior‑level customer engagement and business development experience.

Responsibilities

Demonstrate the leadership qualities necessary to lead and maintain an effective and cohesive team. These qualities include demonstrating humility, your ability to drive a team to achieve its goals for our division and our customers, and your level of “people smarts” such as mutual trust and respect for others, and providing clear communication to your team, across the functions and management.
Demonstrate the charisma, trust, and technical acumen for driving to resolution for complex issues involving engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, programs, and customer considerations.
Prioritize cross-functional collaboration to achieve division and group-level goals.
Support the full lifecycle of the platform, with a heavy emphasis on two areas: (1) ensuring development programs are well-positioned for deterministic execution with technically sound initial assumptions, risk balancing, and structures in place for effective change management; and (2) ensuring production or field quality issues are resolved quickly, in accordance with the terms of the contract(s), and with an eye toward sustaining a positive customer relationship.
Maintain accountability to the IPTL Senior Manager for adherence to baselined plans from technical, scope, budget, and schedule perspectives.
Ensure technical solutions and initiatives are fully integrated into functional and division business objectives, priorities, and technology roadmaps, by aligning closely with division and site leadership to assess present and future business needs and direction.
Act in full coordination with Functional Engineering, Product Engineering, the Office of Chief Engineers, and Business Unit/Program leadership to ensure New Product Introduction (NPI) efforts are planned and executed successfully, effectively managed through production ramp-up challenges, and sustained through the entire production run.
Deliver on the technical, scope, budget, and schedule commitments made to Moog’s Business Sector and its customers for development and production programs.
Reduce the potential for product quality issues before they impact a customer, thereby maintaining the customer’s confidence in Moog as a critical partner.
Establish relationships with customer and Moog networks built on trust and competence.
Maintain good emotional intelligence, deliver clear and transparent communication, and actively listen to the “voice of the customer.”
Demonstrate effective “systems thinking” and the ability to understand how technical performance, producibility and product quality, business considerations, and customer needs all must be balanced.
Provide technical perspective and guidance regarding potential business decisions that may have long-term financial or strategic impact.
Be a key influence in driving the group’s efforts to increase profitability.
Maintain awareness of customer and Moog technology roadmaps and be a key influence in aligning efforts to meet future customer needs and position Moog to be in unique positions to offer innovative solutions.

Benefits

great compensation package
bonus opportunities
matching 401k
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (select locations)
Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
Flexible paid time off
holidays
parental leave program
relocation assistance
Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”) and other supplemental benefit coverages.
Tuition Assistance
mentorship and coaching opportunities
leadership development and other personal growth programs
warm, respectful, family-like environment driven by our 12 core values.
Multiple Employee Resource Groups led by our employees, open and welcoming to all.