Director of Engineering

Job DetailsJob Location: Tacoma, WA 98409Position Type: Full TimeSalary Range: $120,000.00 - $145,000.00 Salary/yearJob Shift: DayJob Category: ManufacturingDEMGY Pacific | Tacoma, Washington Build the System Behind Exceptional Engineering Are you a strategic engineering leader who sees the entire journey from initial concept and tooling strategy through production readiness, continuous improvement, and product sustainment? At DEMGY, you’ll connect people, processes, and technology across the complete product lifecycle. You’ll create clarity, eliminate inefficiencies, and build scalable engineering systems that improve cost, quality, delivery, and customer outcomes. Since 1947, DEMGY has combined the stability and resources of an established global organization with an environment where your ideas, leadership, and results can make a visible impact. What You’ll Lead Reporting to the VP of Operations, you’ll provide strategic and operational leadership across Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Tooling, and Project Engineering. You will: Establish and execute an engineering strategy that supports growth, operational excellence, and customer commitments. Lead engineering programs from concept and development through production, sustainment, and end-of-life. Optimize NPI, production readiness, tooling strategies, manufacturability, and engineering processes. Connect Engineering, Quality, Production, Supply Chain, Finance, and Business Development to improve execution across the operation. Drive engineering capacity, resource planning, program cost and risk evaluation, and capital and tooling decisions. Establish meaningful KPIs and use them to identify bottlenecks, improve performance, and create greater efficiency. Provide visible leadership when engineering challenges affect quality, cost, delivery, customers, or compliance. Build capable, accountable teams while championing Lean, Kaizen, 5S, safety, and continuous improvement. You’ll Thrive Here If You… Naturally connect people, processes, and priorities. Enjoy doing complex work from beginning to end and making every stage more effective. See inefficiencies as opportunities to design a better way forward. Want autonomy to make decisions and the accountability to deliver results. Bring structure to complexity while maintaining speed, collaboration, and high standards. What You Bring Experience in plastics engineering, preferably within aerospace manufacturing. Demonstrated success leading complex engineering or manufacturing programs across the full product lifecycle. Strong knowledge of injection molding, tooling, manufacturability, process development, and cost modeling. Experience with ERP/MRP systems; IQMS experience preferred. Advanced proficiency with CATIA and SolidWorks. Working knowledge of AS9100 requirements. Strong project planning, resource allocation, risk-management, and cross-functional leadership capabilities. Compensation & Benefits Salary Range: $120k - $145k Benefits include: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance Life Insurance Long-Term Disability and Supplemental Benefit Coverage Options Employee Assistance Program (EAP) 401(k) with Company Matching Generous Paid Time Off   How to Apply To be considered, you must complete our company survey as part of the application process: https://go.cultureindex.com/s/spyV5P2SWD Join DEMGY Pacific and build an engineering organization where strong people, connected processes, and disciplined execution turn complex ideas into reliable results.