Director of Engineering

Ultimate Staffing Services; Santa Ana (CA); On-site; USD 153,000 - 187,000; Full time

Job summary

Ultimate Staffing Services in California seeks an experienced Director of Engineering to lead a team of mechanical and electrical engineers, drive product quality, and manage development and sustaining activities.

This hands-on leadership role emphasizes manufacturability, reliability, and regulatory compliance, with a minimum annual pay of $170,000 and a focus on safety and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams and delivering results.
• Hands-on design and development oversight across multiple disciplines.
• Strong focus on manufacturability, reliability, and product safety.

Responsibilities

• Manage, mentor, and develop mechanical and electrical engineering personnel; establish clear responsibilities, priorities, performance expectations, and accountability.
• Provide technical and managerial oversight to the ECN Coordinator and ensure engineering changes are properly reviewed, documented, approved, communicated, and implemented.
• Directly manage the Sustaining Engineering Manager and maintain accountability for the performance of the sustaining engineering function, including existing-product quality, reliability, corrective actions, production support, service issues, dive testing, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure focus on New Product Development does not reduce appropriate engineering attention to released products, production issues, field concerns, or sustaining-engineering priorities.
• Work closely with Production and Quality to ensure new products are designed for manufacturability, testability, serviceability, repeatability, quality, and efficient production.
• Ensure appropriate design reviews, risk reviews, verification, validation, testing, and documentation are completed before products are released to production.
• Maintain overall responsibility for product safety considerations throughout the design process, including identification of foreseeable risks, appropriate design controls, testing, warnings, documentation, and risk mitigation.
• Identify applicable regulatory, industry, legal, and certification requirements for new products and ensure required approvals, testing, documentation, and certifications are incorporated into development schedules.
• Coordinate with outside laboratories, consultants, certification organizations, legal resources, or technical specialists when required to support product compliance and launch.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Mechanical engineering

Electrical engineering

Project management

Regulatory compliance

Job description

Position Overview:

Ultimate Staffing Services is actively seeking an experienced Director of Engineering to join a client's innovative team in California. This leadership role is pivotal in driving the engineering department's success, ensuring product quality, and managing a dedicated team of mechanical and electrical engineers. The position requires a hands-on approach to managing the engineering processes, fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Manage, mentor, and develop mechanical and electrical engineering personnel; establish clear responsibilities, priorities, performance expectations, and accountability.
• Provide technical and managerial oversight to the ECN Coordinator and ensure engineering changes are properly reviewed, documented, approved, communicated, and implemented.
• Directly manage the Sustaining Engineering Manager and maintain accountability for the performance of the sustaining engineering function, including existing-product quality, reliability, corrective actions, production support, service issues, dive testing, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure focus on New Product Development does not reduce appropriate engineering attention to released products, production issues, field concerns, or sustaining-engineering priorities.
• Work closely with Production and Quality to ensure new products are designed for manufacturability, testability, serviceability, repeatability, quality, and efficient production.
• Ensure appropriate design reviews, risk reviews, verification, validation, testing, and documentation are completed before products are released to production.
• Maintain overall responsibility for product safety considerations throughout the design process, including identification of foreseeable risks, appropriate design controls, testing, warnings, documentation, and risk mitigation.
• Identify applicable regulatory, industry, legal, and certification requirements for new products and ensure required approvals, testing, documentation, and certifications are incorporated into development schedules.
• Coordinate with outside laboratories, consultants, certification organizations, legal resources, or technical specialists when required to support product compliance and launch.

Required Work Hours:

Monday to Friday, 1st shift

Benefits:

Details regarding benefits will be discussed during the interview process.

Additional Details:

This is a supervisory position with a minimum pay of $170,000 per year. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, or military or veteran status. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with state and local laws, including the California Fair Chance Act, City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.