Manager, Specialty Engineering - Space Technologies

Regular

The Specialty Engineering Manager will lead a team of specialty engineers supporting space electronics programs across EEE parts engineering, radiation effects, and reliability. This role combines technical leadership with direct people management.

Approximately 50% of the manager’s time will be spent applying their technical expertise to support the division and its programs. The remaining 50% will focus on leading the team, including coaching, performance management, workload allocation, 1:1 meetings, and monitoring the quality and timeliness of work outputs. The ideal candidate is a technically credible engineer who can contribute directly to engineering work while creating clarity, accountability, and effective execution across the team.

• Provide technical support in one or more relevant disciplines, such as EEE parts selection and control, radiation effects analysis, reliability engineering, or related space electronics specialties.
• Support program teams with technical assessments, risk identification, problem resolution, and design or qualification decisions.
• Review and approve technical analyses, reports, processes, plans, and engineering recommendations.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and escalation point for complex technical issues.
• Help establish and improve engineering methods, standards, tools, and lessons-learned practices.
• Participate in design reviews, risk reviews, failure investigations, anomaly resolution, and customer or supplier technical discussions.
• Maintain awareness of applicable industry standards, customer requirements, mission assurance practices, and space hardware development processes.
• Identify technical capability gaps and help develop the team's technical depth.

• Directly manage, coach, and develop a team of specialty engineers.
• Conduct regular 1:1 meetings focused on priorities, performance, development, support needs, and career growth.
• Set clear expectations for quality, timeliness, technical rigor, communication, and professional conduct.
• Allocate team members' time across programs, projects, operational activities, and improvement initiatives based on business priorities and available capacity.
• Monitor work progress and outputs to ensure commitments are understood, risks are visible, and deliverables meet expectations.
• Balance workload across the team and address conflicts among competing priorities.
• Provide timely feedback, recognize strong performance, and manage performance concerns using objective, fact-based expectations and follow-up.
• Establish development plans, mentoring opportunities, and training priorities for each team member.
• Recruit, onboard, and retain high-performing engineering talent.
• Represent the team in organizational planning, staffing discussions, and resource reviews.
• Promote collaboration across systems engineering, design, manufacturing, quality, program management, supply chain, and mission assurance.

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, physics, materials science, reliability engineering, or a related technical field.
• Significant professional experience supporting space electronics, aerospace hardware, defense systems, or another highly regulated technical environment.
• Demonstrated technical experience in at least one of the following areas:
• EEE parts engineering and parts control
• Radiation effects, radiation hardness assurance, or radiation testing
• Reliability engineering, reliability prediction, qualification, or failure analysis
• Experience leading technical work across multiple programs or functional organizations.
• Ability to prioritize work,…