Mechanical Engineering Manager
Amca
<div class="content-intro"><p>Amca is building America’s new industrial base. Since the 1990s, our ability to build new aviation and military systems and maintain the ones we already have has eroded. Today, the gap between what the nation needs to produce and what it is capable of producing is the largest it has been in generations.</p> <p>To help close that gap, Amca rapidly develops and manufactures new critical components and subsystems required to build and sustain the planes, military vehicles, and core infrastructure America needs. Today, we operate seven factories nationwide, including our advanced prototyping and testing headquarters in El Segundo, and deliver avionics, hydraulic, and electrical components for platforms such as the F-35, F-16, F/A-18, 737MAX, 787, A320neo, A321, Mk-48, and M1 Abrams.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p></div><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><strong>Overview:</strong></p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">You will lead Amca's mechanical engineering function across design, build, and test. Your team takes flight hardware from concept through qualification and into production — spanning flow control devices, mechanisms, pneumatic and hydraulic assemblies, structural systems, cockpit avionics, and power electronics enclosures and mechanical subsystems. You will set the technical standard for how Amca designs, builds, and proves its mechanical products, while growing and developing the engineers responsible for executing that work day to day. This is a player-coach role: you will be in the details of hard problems while building the team and processes to scale.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p> <ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Manage the mechanical engineering team across design, build, and test</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Hire, develop, and retain mechanical design, build, and test engineers</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Set the technical bar for design reviews, qualification testing, build methodology, and DFM standards across the discipline</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Mentor engineers at all levels; instill a culture of extreme ownership and first-principles problem solving</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Define and evolve mechanical engineering design, build, and testing standards as Amca scales</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Contribute to the mechanical product roadmap in partnership with program management and senior leadership</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Work closely with customers and program management to understand end-use applications and challenge requirements wherever possible</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Support expansion of Amca's catalog across valves, regulators, solenoids, actuators, pistons, switches, cockpit avionics hardware, power electronics mechanical packaging, and adjacent mechanical categories</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Ensure every