Member of Technical Staff, Principal Compliance

Ironstead•Denver, CO

About The Position

Ironstead Industrial Inc. is seeking a Member of Technical Staff, Principal Compliance to build and scale the operational compliance system for a growing portfolio of advanced manufacturing businesses. The role spans Environmental Health & Safety, export control, defense cybersecurity, and operations, translating complex requirements into practical systems for machine-shop environments. The position focuses on making controls work in practice and helping production teams understand their purpose, rather than measuring success by the number of procedures published. The successful candidate will bring deep expertise in at least one of EHS, export compliance, or defense cybersecurity, working knowledge across the other areas, and sound judgment in choosing effective controls and operational solutions. The role includes extensive travel and on-site work at portfolio facilities, including extended stays and occasional nights and weekends during critical transitions and deployment windows.

Requirements

Significant experience in compliance, EHS, export controls, cybersecurity, or risk management within manufacturing, aerospace, defense, or another regulated industrial environment.
Experience with machine-shop safety, industrial chemicals, environmental permitting, or controlled manufacturing environments.
Experience translating regulatory or contractual requirements into operational controls.
Strong investigation, root-cause analysis, risk-assessment, and corrective-action skills.
Willingness to travel extensively (60–80%) and embed on-site at portfolio facilities for extended periods, including some nights and weekends during critical transition windows.
Ability to work extended hours, including nights and weekends, during active deployment windows.
Ability to pass any background or export-compliance screening required for defense-related client sites.
U.S. citizenship required due to ITAR/export-control considerations.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with DFARS cybersecurity requirements and CUI handling.
Experience integrating compliance systems following an acquisition.
Experience implementing CMMC or NIST SP 800-171 controls in a manufacturing environment.
Relevant certifications such as CSP, CHMM, CISSP, CISM, CMMC credentials, or export-compliance certifications.

Responsibilities

Author and deploy a unified portfolio compliance architecture, including standard operating procedures, audit criteria, and targeted training across EHS, ITAR/export control, and defense cybersecurity (CMMC/NIST SP 800-171).
Lead pre-acquisition compliance due diligence and post-close facility transformations, establishing risk ownership and remediation roadmaps for newly acquired shops.
Manage risk-based compliance by prioritizing vulnerabilities according to real-world operational exposure, streamlining corrective action while maintaining production velocity.
Embed compliance controls and automated audit-trail collection into IronsteadOS, and build executive dashboards to monitor incidents, open risks, and corrective actions across sites.
Codify post-integration lessons into scalable playbooks to accelerate compliance onboarding and strengthen defense readiness for future acquisitions.
Architect scalable EHS systems featuring leading-indicator risk metrics, proactive hazard identification, and preventative safety protocols.
Standardize shop-floor safety programs covering lockout/tagout, machine guarding, ergonomics, chemical management, and emergency response.
Translate ITAR, EAR, and defense-customer requirements into facility controls for physical security, visitor access, technical-data flows, and secure shipping.
Drive cross-site alignment and maintenance of cybersecurity frameworks, including CMMC 2.0, NIST SP 800-171, and DFARS standards.
Operationalize cybersecurity protocols for CAM programming workflows, CNC machine connectivity, CMM/inspection data, and engineering workstations while preserving production velocity.