Director of Industrial Manufacturing Engineering (Dir Manufacturing Eng 1) - 28273

Requisition Number: 28273 

Required Travel: 51 - 75%

Employment Type: Full Time/Salaried/Exempt

Anticipated Salary Range: $163,956.00 - $275,000.00 

Security Clearance: Secret  

Level of Experience: Management 

Meet HII’s Mission Technologies Division
Our team of more than 7,000 professionals worldwide delivers all-domain expertise and advanced technologies in service of mission partners across the globe. Mission Technologies is leading the next evolution of national defense – the data evolution - by accelerating a breadth of national security solutions for government and commercial customers. Our capabilities range from C5ISR, AI and Big Data, cyber operations and synthetic training environments to fleet sustainment, environmental remediation and the largest family of unmanned underwater vehicles in every class. Find the role that’s right for you. Apply today. We look forward to meeting you.

To learn more about Mission Technologies, click here for a short video: https://vimeo.com/732533072

Leadership at HII – Mission Technologies
HII’s Leadership Capability Framework outlines the core capabilities expected of all leaders across Mission Technologies. Leaders are accountable for demonstrating strength in:

• Know & Grow Your People – Develop talent, empower teams, and build an inclusive environment.
• Build Relationships – Strengthen trust, collaboration, and cross-functional partnerships.
• Take Ownership – Drive accountability, execution excellence, and results.
• Customer First – Anticipate mission needs and deliver value to our partners.
• Shape the Future – Inspire innovation and align work with strategic priorities.
• Act with Urgency – Make informed decisions and move with purpose.

These capabilities define how leaders inspire teams, deliver results, and shape the future of Mission Technologies.

Summary

HII-Mission Technologies is seeking a Director of Industrial Manufacturing Engineering to join the team! This position can be flexible on location, primarily being loacted on the east coast. The Director of Industrial Manufacturing Engineering is a senior leader responsible for designing, optimizing, and governing the systems, methods, and flows that underpin production operations across all hardware programs. This individual serves as the technical authority for industrial engineering discipline within the organization, leading cross-functional teams to improve throughput, reduce waste, balance capacity, and enable cost-effective scale-up of complex defense systems from prototype to low-rate initial production (LRIP) through full-rate production (FRP).

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, the Director will partner with the technology and product business groups. In particular, the Director will work closely with manufacturing engineering, systems engineering, program management, supply chain, and quality assurance to apply industrial engineering methods that make production operations more efficient, repeatable, and resilient. This role requires an individual who combines deep quantitative expertise in production systems analysis with organizational leadership and soft skills to implement lasting operational improvements across people, processes, and facilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Expertly blend management systems and industrial manufacturing expertise to satisfy on-time delivery and quality performance, properly address risks and impact, and help define clear roles, responsibility, and accountability across the production process.
• Design and maintain production system architectures — including value stream maps, line balance analyses, and facility layout models — to maximize throughput and minimize non-value-added activity across all production lines.
• Develop and own capacity planning models that account for demand variability, headcount, equipment utilization, and supplier lead times; translate model outputs into actionable build plans and capital investment recommendations.
• Lead time-and-motion studies, work measurement, and labor standards development to establish accurate labor hour estimates, staffing plans, and earned value baselines in support of government cost proposals and EAC reviews.
• Build and maintain discrete-event simulation models of key production processes to evaluate bottleneck scenarios, validate capacity assumptions, and de-risk production ramp decisions prior to committing capital.
• Establish and monitor manufacturing performance dashboards covering throughput, cycle time, OEE (Overall Equ