Division IPT Lead in Tewkesbury

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The Division IPT Lead reports to the Commercial Aircraft Deputy Director. It is an over‑arching global role with accountability for ensuring the technical and engineering execution performance over the full product lifecycle. Depending on the need, the role is intended to be tailored to provide oversight for either a given customer’s book of business with Moog or a given platform’s development efforts through NPI phases and into low/full‑rate production.

Embracing the mindset of “One Moog Team,” the IPT Lead team is committed to leading a team of highly skilled, cross‑disciplinary technical professionals, driving the creation of innovative solutions to technical challenges while upholding our commitments to both internal and external customers. The IPT Lead is the customer’s primary technical point of contact (TPOC) and is responsible for maintaining the proper balance between the customer’s satisfaction and Moog’s contracted scope of work. The Division IPT Lead is responsible for ensuring the technical compliance of critical system attributes like safety, reliability, performance, and producibility for Moog products in development and/or production in support of a given customer or platform. They coordinate the technical interactions between Design and Product Support Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, and Quality organizations.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate the leadership qualities necessary to lead and maintain an effective and cohesive team, including humility, the ability to drive a team to achieve its goals for our division and our customers, and people smarts such as mutual trust and respect for others, and providing clear communication to your team across the functions and management.
• Demonstrate charisma, trust, and technical acumen for driving resolution of complex issues involving engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, programs, and customer considerations.
• Prioritize cross‑functional collaboration to achieve division and group‑level goals and support the full lifecycle of the platform.
• Ensure development programs are well‑positioned for deterministic execution with technically sound initial assumptions, risk balancing, and structures in place for effective change management.
• Ensure production or field quality issues are resolved quickly, in accordance with the terms of the contract(s), and with an eye toward sustaining a positive customer relationship.
• Maintain accountability for adherence to baselined plans from technical, scope, budget, and schedule perspectives.
• Lead and validate Comprehensive‑Estimation‑at‑Complete (CEAC) activities, variance explanations, and Return‑to‑Green (RTG) planning as needed.
• Ensure technical solutions and initiatives are fully integrated into functional and division business objectives, priorities, and technology roadmaps.
• Act in full coordination with Functional Engineering, Product Engineering, the Office of Chief Engineers, and Business Unit/Program leadership to ensure New Product Introduction (NPI) efforts are planned and executed successfully.
• Deliver on the technical, scope, budget, and schedule commitments made to Moog’s Business Sector and its customers for development and production programs.
• Reduce the potential for product quality issues before they impact a customer, thereby maintaining the customer’s confidence in Moog as a critical partner.
• Establish relationships with customers and Moog networks built on trust and competence, maintain good emotional intelligence, deliver clear and transparent communication, and actively listen to the voice of the customer.
• Demonstrate effective systems thinking and the ability to understand how technical performance, producibility, product quality, business considerations, and customer needs all must be balanced.
• Provide technical perspective and guidance regarding potential business decisions that may have long‑term financial or strategic impact.
• Be a key influence in driving the group’s efforts to increase profitability and align efforts to meet future customer needs, positioning Moog to offer innovative solutions.

Qualifications

• Extensive years of experience in a leadership role.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
• Advanced (graduate level) degree in Engineering or Business is a plus.
• Demonstrated business acumen, with the ability to engage the right organizational resources to quickly and effectively resolve problems.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and persuade in situations where emotions can run high and pressure to perform is great.
• Relevant industry experience is highly desirable.
• Proven capabilities in managing and working collaboratively within a multicultural geographically dispersed environment.