Senior Engineering Manager

The Senior Engineering Manager is responsible for translating company strategy into effective engineering execution. This role ensures strong technical rigor, predictable delivery, disciplined resource management, and a healthy engineering culture while developing mid-level managers and technical leaders.

• Ability to ensure engineering projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to quality requirements.
• Translates strategic objectives into clear priorities, milestones, and execution plans.
• Identifies risks early and drives mitigation before they impact cost, schedule, or performance.

• Demonstrates deep technical judgment and the ability to set standards for sound engineering practice.
• Ensures designs, processes, and changes meet internal, customer, and regulatory requirements.
• Promotes data-driven decision making and continuous technical improvement.
• Effectively leads and develops engineering managers and technical staff.
• Creates clarity around roles, expectations, and accountability.
• Builds trust, psychological safety, and professional respect across the engineering organization.

• Clearly communicates status, risks, and priorities to executive leadership and cross-functional partners.
• Ensures leadership has timely, accurate visibility into engineering performance and issues.
• Represents engineering effectively in cross-functional and customer-facing discussions.

• Manages engineering staffing, workload balance, and prioritization to maximize impact.
• Makes tradeoff decisions when resources are constrained and escalates appropriately.
• Ensures effective use of budget, tools, and engineering assets.
• Establishes and uses KPIs to monitor productivity, quality, and delivery performance.
• Improves engineering workflows, review, and governance to increase predictability and efficiency.
• Ensures lessons learned are captured and applied across teams.

• Attracts, retains, and develops high-performing engineering talent.
• Conducts performance reviews and creates meaningful development plans.
• Builds bench strength for future technical and leadership roles.

• Bachelor’s Degree in the field of Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, or other relevant field is required. Advanced technical or business degree is highly desirable.
• 10+ years of engineering experience in production or defense industries.
• Strong foundation in engineering theory and practice, with the ability to apply first principles, data-driven analysis, and sound technical judgment to guide design decisions, troubleshoot complex problems, and challenge assumptions across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Proven people and execution leadership, including experience managing managers, setting clear priorities and accountability, communicating status and risks effectively to leadership, and consistently delivering results through delegation and team development.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
• Demonstrate ability in the client's competencies as a senior leader: timely/quality decisions, delegation, develops direct reports, process management, innovation management, business acumen, intellectual horsepower, learning on the fly, hiring and staffing.