Technical Execution Center Systems Director

Nikkiso Cryogenic Industries•Huntington Beach, CA

About The Position

Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases (CE&IG) is a provider of high-pressure and cryogenic systems and equipment for LNG, hydrogen, compressed natural gas, and industrial gas applications. The TEC Systems Director is part of the Technical Delivery Team within CE&IG’s Applied Technologies Business Unit. The position may be based at an existing Nikkiso location in Southern California (Escondido, Murrieta, Huntington Beach, or Santa Ana) or Houston, Texas. The TEC Systems Director leads global systems engineering capability and product-family System Leads across the product lifecycle. The role integrates requirements, architecture, interfaces, and verification with process and discipline engineering teams, and develops reusable product platforms while delivery teams retain responsibility for their projects. The successful candidate brings broad systems knowledge and practical judgment to multidisciplinary technical work and develops an effective global engineering organization.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Systems, or a related engineering discipline.
12 or more years of progressive engineering experience with complex products, process systems, or industrial equipment, including 5 or more years providing multidisciplinary technical leadership.
Experience with system architecture, requirements, interfaces, configuration management, verification, validation, and technical risk.
Experience leading products through engineering, manufacturing, testing, commissioning, or field support.
Broad understanding of process, mechanical, piping, electrical, and controls engineering, and complex project execution.
Strong communication, facilitation, and technical decision-making skills; ability to influence across functions and develop engineering teams.

Nice To Haves

Relevant master’s degree.
Professional Engineer (PE) license.
INCOSE Systems Engineering certification or equivalent certification.
Global engineering, engineered-to-order, cryogenic, LNG, industrial gas, hydrogen, or CO2 product experience.
Experience with applicable codes and safety reviews, requirements tools, modular product platforms, and R&D.
Experience conducting formal system trade-off analyses and translating customer needs into product and subsystem requirements.

Responsibilities

Own systems engineering processes, requirements management, architectures, and controlled interface documentation across product families.
Lead multidisciplinary design reviews and engineering changes, and resolve interfaces with Process, System, and Engineering Leads.
Evaluate technical alternatives for performance, safety, reliability, manufacturability, maintenance, transport, cost, and lifecycle value.
Coordinate HAZOP, HAZID, LOPA, and FMEA reviews with process-safety specialists; define verification, validation, and acceptance criteria and resolve deficiencies through field operation.
Provide Technical Sales, Procurement, Manufacturing, and suppliers with requirements, technical evaluations, exceptions, engineering effort, and risk inputs; validate capacity and manufacturing assumptions with their owners.
Plan systems-engineering work and coordinate qualified TEC resources; delivery team leads retain project baselines, budgets, schedules, customer interfaces, and contract variations.
Coordinate approved product development, technical roadmaps, and modular platforms with Product Directors; product releases require engineering approval and Applications’ commercial readiness.
Approve multidisciplinary standards with System Leads and obtain final Head of TEC signoff; maintain rolling two-year plans, incorporate lessons learned, and release approved versions in Product Center.
Directly supervise assigned systems engineering personnel and provide functional leadership to System Leads.
Recruit, develop, mentor, and retain engineering talent; establish competency expectations, career pathways, and global training and knowledge-transfer programs.