NPD Product Technical Lead – CAD
PacSci EMC – Chandler, AZ
Position Summary
The NPD Product Technical Lead (PTL) for the CAD product line is a key first-line technical leadership role within PacSci EMC. This position is responsible for leading and guiding a team of engineers while also directly contributing to hands-on product development efforts. The PTL provides leadership across New Product Development (NPD) activities including engineering execution, design review leadership, customer technical engagement, workload balancing, mentoring, and engineering process discipline.
This role operates in a highly collaborative and fast-paced environment supporting safety-critical aerospace and defense products. The ideal candidate combines strong mechanical/ordnance design expertise with customer-facing technical leadership and the ability to manage multiple engineering priorities simultaneously.
This role reports into NPD Engineering Leadership and directly leads a team of engineers while serving as a primary technical contributor on assigned development programs.
Responsibilities
• Lead and support new product development activities utilizing PacSci EMC APD/NPD processes.
• Serve as a first-line technical leader responsible for mentoring, guiding, and developing engineering team members.
• Directly contribute to engineering development activities as a hands-on technical lead on assigned projects.
• Lead design review preparation and execution activities, ensuring engineering teams are prepared with required analysis, testing, and technical justification.
• Own engineering deliverables and execution against allocated engineering hours and program schedules.
• Balance engineering workloads, assign tasks, and support execution prioritization across the team.
• Interface directly with customers, vendors, testing organizations, and internal stakeholders during technical reviews and development activities.
• Support bid and proposal activities, technical reviews, innovation initiatives, and customer relationship development.
• Drive engineering excellence, process discipline, and continuous improvement initiatives across the team.
• Participate in failure investigations, technical problem-solving, and production support activities as needed.
• Promote proactive communication, strong technical rigor, and high-confidence customer engagement.
• Conduct daily management activities and communicate engineering execution status as required.
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering required, Master’s degree preferred.
• 5+ years of engineering, product development, or technical leadership experience in aerospace, defense, or related industries.
• Strong mechanical and/or ordnance design experience required.
• Experience leading product development programs through design review phases including preliminary and critical design reviews.
• Demonstrated customer-facing technical leadership experience.
• Ability to balance hands-on engineering responsibilities with people leadership responsibilities.
• Strong analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience guiding and mentoring engineering teams in a fast-paced technical environment.
• Broad engineering exposure preferred; candidates with overly narrow technical specialization may not be successful in this role.
• Experience with DFMEA/FMECA, reliability/system safety, and failure analysis strongly preferred.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining technical rigor and execution discipline.
• Experience within safety-critical aerospace and defense environments preferred.
Why Join PacSci EMC NPD?
PacSci EMC’s NPD organization offers broad technical exposure, customer engagement, and multiple long-term career growth paths including technical leadership, program management, and technical fellow development tracks. Unlike larger organizations with highly segmented responsibilities, this role offers meaningful ownership, leadership exposure, and cross-functional experience within a highly collaborative environment.
Additional Information
This position is subject to U.S. export control requirements (ITAR).
This role is fully onsite in Chandler, Arizona, with less than 25% travel required.
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About Company
Pacific Scientific Energetic Materials Company (PacSci EMC), a Ralliant Corporation (NYSE: RAL) operating company, makes critical missions possible. From concept to demonstration to delivery, we provide leading-edge energetic materials, devices and subsystems for use in military and commercial applications. With engineering and manufacturing capability in Arizona and California, our associates work together to solve the toughest technical challenges with a dedication to Safety First, Quality Every TimeTM. We enable success for innumerable missions on a daily basis, impacting the lives of military personnel, law enforcement officers, commercial airline pilots, astronauts, and oil field operators. For nearly a century, PacSci EMC’s experience and expertise has been relied upon in the times When Milliseconds MatterTM. For more information, go to www.psemc.com.
PacSci EMC is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of race, sex, religion, age, national origin, color, disability, or veteran status. Nonetheless, pursuant to our subcontractor status on highly sensitive national security matters, Mechanical Assemblers and all other floor personnel who frequently shift cell assignments, as well as any personnel directly working with the following contract are subject to the following contractual provision: THAAD PRIME Flowdowns (H-Clauses) H-42 FOREIGN PERSONS, paragraph D., “All employees of all entities that make up the Contractor’s team, whether subcontractors, consultants, or anyone who works with or on behalf of the Contractor will be citizens of the U.S.” Accordingly, only U.S. citizens will be qualified to fill these roles. We are committed to providing a workplace free of any discrimination or harassment.
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