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Manages multiple aerospace and defense projects or integrated product teams from initiation through delivery. Responsibilities include scope, schedule, budget, resource, quality, risk, customer, and contractual management; leading cross-functional teams; coordinating engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, contracts, and finance; preparing status reports and briefings; supporting proposals and transitions; and ensuring compliance with requirements and configuration processes.

Leads U.S. military and aerospace business development across defense branches and commercial markets. Identifies, qualifies, shapes, and closes opportunities exceeding $1 million with prime contractors and suppliers. Builds customer relationships, tracks government programs and budgets, supports proposals, influences product requirements, manages CRM opportunities, participates in strategic planning and trade shows, and collaborates with engineering, operations, and program management. Requires significant travel across the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

Supports electronic component selection, qualification, lifecycle management, and obsolescence mitigation for rugged military, aerospace, and space products. Maintains BOM and component data in PLM systems, supports engineering changes and configuration control, and collaborates with electrical, mechanical, systems, manufacturing, and supply chain teams. The role also contributes to design tradeoffs, reliability, compliance, cost reduction, standardization, and resolution of component-related issues across development and production.

Leads complex electrical engineering designs for rugged embedded systems used in military, aerospace, and space programs. Responsibilities include schematic capture, design trades, interconnections, PCB layout, simulation, functional testing, design reviews, technical writing, RCCA reporting, process improvement, mentoring, and technical planning. Requires digital design experience with mil-spec or space programs and familiarity with VME, cPCI, PCIe, WCCA, and EPSA.

Supports the Quality Management System and customer quality requirements through contract reviews, nonconformance management, corrective actions, first article inspections, quality metrics, supplier quality, audits, and product inspection. The role coordinates quality documentation, analyzes performance trends, supports AS9100 compliance, and collaborates with engineering, manufacturing, suppliers, and customers in a regulated aerospace and defense environment.

The Senior Material Planner develops and maintains material, production, and demand plans in ERP/MRP systems. Responsibilities include analyzing forecasts, inventory, capacity, shortages, lead times, and supply constraints; maintaining planning data, BOMs, and MRP parameters; coordinating with procurement, engineering, production, logistics, and program teams; supporting S&OP and production scheduling; and improving delivery performance, inventory health, forecast accuracy, and planning integrity.

Leads U.S. defense and aerospace sales for board-level embedded computing products. Builds and manages distributor and manufacturer representative channels, develops relationships with engineering and program stakeholders, drives design-in opportunities, manages sales execution and inside sales, and owns opportunities through technical qualification, proposals, and commercial closure. Requires deep experience selling complex electronics to defense primes and technical credibility with engineering customers.