Jobs at Woodward, Inc

Leads a commercial operations team, overseeing performance management, operational planning, resource allocation, issue resolution, and cross-functional collaboration. The role develops team capabilities, manages operational and financial results, resolves departmental challenges, and aligns commercial operations with broader business objectives. Candidates should have at least five years of sales, commercial operations, or customer service experience, including two years in a leadership role.

Leads accounting activities and the Record-to-Report workstream for a global SAP S/4 implementation. Oversees costing, inventory controls, intercompany accounting, payroll and benefits, lease accounting, capital assets, reporting, taxes, compliance, GAAP, and SOX. Manages accounting staff, financial reporting, compliance, strategic planning, stakeholder relationships, system testing, training, hypercare, and deployment activities. Requires approximately 50% domestic and international travel, potentially more during site deployments.

Deploys, manages, tunes, and governs enterprise firewalls while designing and maintaining VPN, SASE, and NAC solutions. Investigates security alerts, analyzes network traffic and logs, supports incident response, and recommends remediation. Partners with infrastructure, network, and security teams to improve controls, reduce risk, mature security programs, and document technical standards and procedures.

Provides compensation consulting and analytical support to HR partners and business leaders. Conducts market pricing, job evaluations, workforce modeling, pay equity analysis, salary planning, incentive administration, and compensation surveys. Maintains job architecture and career frameworks, supports annual compensation cycles, ensures regulatory compliance, and improves compensation processes, reporting, and tools.

Manages supplier quality performance, leads and develops the supplier quality team, implements quality improvement and risk mitigation strategies, collaborates with procurement, engineering, and manufacturing, analyzes quality metrics, resolves supplier issues, and ensures compliance with applicable standards and regulations.

Conduct pricing analysis, develop models and dashboards, monitor pricing metrics, and recommend strategies to improve revenue and profitability. Analyze costs, margins, variances, customer profitability, and product performance. Support quotes, bids, launches, price increases, approvals, and governance while partnering with sales, finance, marketing, product, operations, supply chain, and engineering teams.

Design and implement aerospace electronic system architectures, develop and manage requirements, solve complex technical challenges, and lead cross-functional engineering teams. Advise leadership on technology strategy, support safety analyses, troubleshoot critical systems, and mentor junior engineers. Ensure solutions meet technical standards, business objectives, and requirements across firmware, software, and electronic hardware.

Leads finance strategy for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other strategic transactions. Partners with executives and cross-functional teams on diligence, valuation, deal structuring, negotiations, financial modeling, integration, separation, advisor management, and governance. Evaluates risks, value drivers, and transaction economics while aligning tax, accounting, treasury, reporting, and operational finance expertise. Provides executive-level guidance and protects transaction value throughout the deal lifecycle.

Administer SAP Basis and security across ECC and S/4HANA environments, including monitoring, transports, upgrades, patching, refreshes, performance tuning, role-based access, user provisioning, SoD remediation, and audit support. Support global implementations, testing, cutover, and hypercare. The role also manages NextLabs, automation, infrastructure changes, documentation, troubleshooting, compliance readiness, and small application projects while collaborating with infrastructure, application, QA, and security teams.

The Data Governance Lead will implement data governance policies, ensure data quality, promote stewardship practices, and manage data governance councils.

Leads engineering teams developing electromechanical actuation systems for aerospace applications. Responsibilities include coaching staff, managing budgets and resources, improving product-development processes, maintaining design standards, managing technical risks, and collaborating cross-functionally on new product introduction. The role requires expertise in CAD, CAE, DFMEA, GD&T, configuration management, testing, continuous improvement, product life cycles, and engineering leadership.

Design, build, test, deploy, and support Workday integrations; partner with HR, Payroll, IT and vendors; document mappings and runbooks; monitor and troubleshoot production integrations; evaluate release impacts and improve reliability and data quality.

Design, implement, and monitor procurement compliance programs; perform internal audits and DCMA 640 reviews; manage vendor compliance; investigate violations and recommend corrective actions; provide training and support procurement audits and reporting.

The Manager, IT Engineering drives the integration of digital technologies in engineering, ensuring operational efficiency and managing engineering-related IT systems.