DIRECTOR, STRUCTURES AND FLIGHT SCIENCES

**AeroTEC** is an aerospace engineering company providing a wide array of high-end services and turnkey solutions ranging from aircraft level analysis and design engineering, all the way to prototype flight testing and complete airworthiness certification. Our highly experienced aerospace engineering, testing, and program management teams work closely with customers to address their unique needs in a safe and cost-effective manner, utilizing proven in-house development methodologies and tools. **About the Team** **AeroTEC's Engineering Department** provides comprehensive, full-service aerospace engineering across the full aircraft development lifecycle — design, analysis, integration, test, and certification. Spanning Structures and Flight Sciences, Design and Stress, Mechanical Systems, Aircraft Systems, Systems Engineering and Certification, Test and Evaluation, and Product Innovation, the Department delivers the technical capability behind AeroTEC's customer programs and its own products, and is central to the company's mission to pioneer the future of sustainable aerospace. It is within this technically diverse and high-performing environment that the Director of Structures and Flight Sciences plays a defining role. **About the Role** **As Director of Structures and Flight Sciences,** you will provide strategic and technical leadership across three closely related functions: structural design and stress analysis (Design & Stress), flight sciences, and product innovation. You are responsible for the structural integrity, analytical rigor, aerodynamic insight, and innovative thinking that underpin every aircraft program AeroTEC touches. This is a senior leadership role at the intersection of deep technical authority and organizational vision — owning the direction, capability, and performance of some of the Department's most technically demanding disciplines. If you thrive building world-class teams, influencing complex programs, and operating at the boundary of what aerospace engineering demands, this role was built for you. **In This Role You Will:** **Team Leadership & Organizational Development** - Lead an integrated, multi-disciplinary organization spanning structural design, stress analysis, flight sciences, and product innovation — building a group defined by technical excellence, accountability, and mutual respect. - Provide direct line leadership to the Managers and Leads within the team, including: Design & Stress; Flight Sciences; and Product Innovation — establishing clear expectations, aligned priorities, and coherent ways of working across all three functions. - Establish clear structures of delegation so that managers, group leads, and senior engineers can own daily execution, freeing you to operate strategically; hold direct reports accountable to those expectations. - Conduct timely, constructive performance reviews and develop individualized technical and leadership growth plans for each direct report, including succession planning for key roles within the group. - Identify capability gaps proactively across Design & Stress, Flight Sciences, and Product Innovation; recruit, develop, or partner to close them before they constrain program delivery. - Cultivate a culture of engineering rigor across all functions — one where assumptions are challenged, analyses are defensible, innovation is encouraged, and quality is non-negotiable. **Resource Deployment & Financial Management** - Deploy resources across Design & Stress, Flight Sciences, and Product Innovation appropriately, optimized for experience level, billing structure, and timeliness; ensure blended rates meet program proposal assumptions and objectives. - Build team capacity or partner with external entities to ensure resources match workload across all three functions, keeping the cost basis competitive while maintaining required levels of expertise. - Develop and manage partnerships with external structural engineering, aerodynamics, and product devel…