Manager, Engineering

Job Introduction

Frequentis USA Inc. is dedicated to creating a safer world. With over 75 years of experience, Frequentis understands controllers in safety critical situations encounter new challenges daily. Our mission is to develop and market highly reliable, optimized, custom-tailored, and user centric communication and information systems for mission critical solutions. As an industry leader in voice communication data information systems, we create a safer world through integration, digitalization, and automation while maintaining world class safety standards.

We proudly serve many U.S. government agencies including the FAA, DoD, and NASA. Safety as our number one priority pushes us to constantly learn about the ever-changing needs in safety critical environments to deliver innovative solutions.

• Serve as the overall bid lead for assigned opportunities — from RFI/RFP analysis to proposal submission and internal approval.
• Define and maintain the proposal schedule, deliverables, and compliance matrix.
• Facilitate cross-functional coordination between Engineering, Pricing, Legal, Delivery, and Management.
• Manage trade-offs between technical scope, price, schedule, and risk in line with corporate objectives.
• Ensure timely and high-quality submission of all proposal volumes (technical, management, and commercial).
• Understand system-level architectures for voice, data, and control systems used in mission-critical environments.
• Collaborate with engineering to shape solutions that are compliant, cost-effective, and deliverable.
• Challenge design assumptions to drive Design-to-Bid and Design-to-Cost efficiency.
• Validate that proposed solutions meet customer requirements, standards, and operational environments.
• Ensure that interfaces, integration points, and dependencies are clearly defined in the offer.
• Partner with the Pricing Specialist to define cost models, margin objectives, and pricing strategies.
• Translate corporate goals and customer priorities into a bid strategy and value proposition.
• Support executive briefings and internal approvals with complete and structured proposal documentation.
• Maintain alignment with Sales on customer communications and negotiation preparation.
• Identify and assess commercial, technical, and contractual risks during proposal development.
• Prepare documentation for Bid/No-Bid, Bid Approval, and Investment Review processes.
• Ensure full compliance with internal bid governance, export control, and quality standards.
• Maintain documentation for auditability and lessons-learned processes post-submission.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related technical discipline.
• 5–8 years of experience in bid management, project management, or systems integration within complex technology environments.
• Strong technical understanding of mission-critical communications systems (e.g., Voice Communication Systems, IP networks, SCADA, or aviation IT).
• Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and manage complex stakeholder environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to synthesize technical and commercial inputs into clear customer deliverables.
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail and ability to meet tight deadlines.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and collaboration tools.
• Must be a U.S. Person (citizen or lawful permanent resident) when required by contract or export regulations.

Frequentis USA is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Around 2,100 employees are committed to creating a safer world with their innovative strength and technology orientation. Our culture is based on a working environment characterized by fairness and trust, mutual respect and appreciation. As an international company, we value this diversity and recruit regardless of age, gender, origin, ethnicity,…