Location: Suwanee, GA

Web Industries a 100% employee-owned company (ESOP), which brings a lot of advantages to the people who work here—beyond the great pay and excellent benefits. You’re not just an employee, you are an employee-owner, with a vested interest in the success of the company. Web Industries’ founder, Bob Fulton, believed that the people who create the value of a company, the employees, should share in the success of the company. We believe there is a real energy that exists when people are open, honest, and work together to meet mutual goals. We do this by living our values:

• Heart of an Owner: Taking personal responsibility and pride in our work.
• Stronger Together: The power of collaboration and teamwork.
• Find a Way: Determination and creativity to overcome challenges

As a company, we thrive on that energy and work to bring it into every product and every project that we touch. At Web, we believe the employee experience is paramount to our company’s success. Working with us, you’ll experience a myriad of cultures, locations, industries, and technologies. And you’ll be part of an employee-owned company dedicated to helping you achieve a fulfilling life and a rewarding career.
Technical Director Aerospace is responsible for overseeing all technical aspects of the company in the advanced composite market. The Technical Director works with Aerospace Market Leadership Team to 1) help establish company’s vision for the market and 2) grow the company through the use of technological resources to attain the company’s strategic goals. These strategies include the tactics and execution to: (i) CREATE new opportunities and pipeline for future business, (ii) compete and WIN new opportunities in order to generate profitable new revenue growth, and (iii) retain and GROW our relationships with our most strategic customers in order to build profitable, sustainable, and predictable revenue growth for our employee owners. A Technical Director is a technical businessperson critical in shaping and implementing overall corporate strategy in the advanced composite market.

FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES & DESCRIPTION:Monitoring and Assessing New Technologies

• Conducts research and studies on leading edge technologies
• Determines the value proposition in the marketplace and the probability of implementation.
• Identify, access, and explore high-risk, high-return technologies with potential application within existing businesses and/or new business models.

Strategic Innovation

• Establish the company’s technical vision and leads all aspects of the company’s technological development in the market that is consistent with Web’s corporate strategy.
• Directs the company’s strategic direction, development and future by defining what the company’s products and technologies could develop in three or more years.

Marketing and Customer Relations

• Works in a partnership with sales and marketing team to enable more effective sales opportunity management.
• Translate technical details into real customer advantages that are superior to those of competing options in front of strategic partners
• Work with production and operations as a consultant of technologies that can improve their effectiveness and efficiency.
• Participates in professional organizations and associated meetings and creates opportunities to project a positive image within the profession and to communicate important messages to the industry.

Company Culture

• Provide leadership internally in a fashion that supports the company’s culture, mission and values.
• Acts as a good steward of Web Industries’ resources and ensures control of Web’s IP management.
• Install policies and practices that are constructed to attract the right kind, right number, and right placement of technical assets for current and future needs

• Conducts research and studies on leading edge technologies
• Determines the value proposition in the marketplace and the probability of implementation.
• Identify, access, and explore high-risk, high-return technologies with potential application within existing businesses and/or new business models