Technical Execution Center Systems Director
About The Position
Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases’ Applied Technologies Business Unit includes a Technical Delivery Team comprising Technical Sales, the Technical Execution Center (TEC), SPEED, and Technical Fellows. The TEC develops engineering capability, maintains standards, and allocates resources through process, systems, and discipline engineering groups. 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 project responsibilities. The position may be based at an existing Nikkiso location in Southern California (Escondido, Murietta, Huntington Beach, or Santa Ana) or Houston, Texas. The annual salary range is $137,746–$282,855. The director owns systems-engineering processes and product-family requirements, architectures, and interface documentation; leads multidisciplinary reviews and engineering changes; and evaluates technical alternatives. The role coordinates safety reviews and verification, validation, and acceptance criteria; supports Technical Sales, Procurement, Manufacturing, and suppliers with technical inputs; plans systems-engineering work and coordinates qualified TEC resources; and works with Product Directors on product development, roadmaps, and modular platforms. The director also approves multidisciplinary standards with System Leads, subject to final Head of TEC signoff, and maintains rolling two-year plans and approved standards in Product Center. The position directly supervises assigned systems engineering personnel and provides functional leadership to System Leads. It recruits, develops, mentors, and retains engineering talent and establishes competency expectations, career pathways, and global training and knowledge-transfer programs. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Systems, or a related engineering discipline.
- 12+ years of progressive engineering experience with complex products, process systems, or industrial equipment, including 5+ 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 research and development (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, resolving 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 estimates, and risk inputs; validate capacity and manufacturing assumptions with their owners.
- Plan systems-engineering work and coordinate qualified TEC resources; delivery team leads retain responsibility for 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, subject to 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
