Engineering Manager

The 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.

• Engineering Execution and Delivery 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.
• Technical Leadership and Rigor 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.
• People & Team Leadership Effectively leads and develops engineering managers and technical staff.
• Creates clarify around roles, expectations, and accountability.
• Builds trust, psychological safety, and professional respect across the engineering organization.
• Communication & Stakeholder Alignment Clearly communicates tatus, 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.
• Resource and Capacity Management 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.
• Process, Metrics & Continuous Improvement 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.
• Talent Development & Succession 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.
• Qualifications Bachelor’s Degree in the field of Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, or other relevant field is required. Advanced technical or business degree is highly desirable.
• 12+ 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.
• To conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorization from the U.S. Government
• Client Competencies Demonstrate ability in the Client 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.