Senior Manager, Project Engineering

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Full Time Employee Full-Time Sterling, VA, Sterling, VA, US

3 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

Requisition :1901

Position Location:Sterling, VA

Position

Reports To:

Director, Systems Engineering, Integration & Test

Supervises Others:Yes

At Trident Systems Space Electronic Systems (SES) division, we believe in the power of using strong engineering principles to drive innovation and solve complex problems. We foster a culture of rigorous engineering and continuous improvement, leveraging the full knowledge of our organization through collaborative product development processes that include design and peer reviews. We combine our expertise in space electronics with right-sized development processes to create innovative, high-performance space-based electronic systems that meet our customers' evolving needs.

We are a mission partner supporting DoD, Intelligence Community, and Civil space customers. We develop complex, radiation effects mitigated, designs that balance competing requirements in modern space programs, delivering cutting-edge solutions that enable our customers to achieve more in space.

The Project Engineering Manager leads and develops the project engineering team, whose members serve as the integrating technical execution leads on Trident's space electronics programs. The team owns the engineering execution baseline: scope and work breakdown structure, integrated master schedule, cost account performance and estimate-to-complete, technical risk, configuration management, and the technical review cadence.

The ideal candidate has delivered complex hardware and software programs from concept through delivery, commands both EVMS program control and Agile development methods, and has a demonstrated ability to develop engineers and hold a team accountable to its commitments.

• Lead the project engineering team across multiple concurrent programs, serving as the integrating technical lead in partnership with Program Managers, who hold program accountability, and Chief Engineers, who hold design authority.
• Own definition of system and product scope and the engineering work breakdown structure and establish and execute program governance and the technical review cadence (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, ORR, FRR).
• Ensure internal design reviews and customer technical reviews are completed to achieve program milestones.

• Manage and develop the project engineering team, including performance management, goal setting, coaching, and career development.
• Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, mid-year and annual performance reviews, and provide candid feedback and guidance.
• Identify training, mentoring, and cross training opportunities, support succession planning for critical skills, and foster a collaborative, transparent, and accountable team culture aligned with Trident's values.

• Oversee cost account management across programs, holding the team accountable for cost and schedule compliance within an Earned Value Management System (EVMS) framework.
• Provide technical oversight across programs to ensure weekly cost and schedule variance analysis, root cause identification and corrective action, and ensure Estimates at Completion (EAC) reflect actual engineering progress and remaining work.
• Partner with Program Managers and schedulers to maintain realistic, logic-driven Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) and program milestones.
• Ensure Agile engineering metrics (sprints, velocity) are translated into traditional milestone and earned value reporting and forecast engineering staffing needs across programs.
• Support travel or off-site work as needed and perform other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science/Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent relevant experience), plus 12+ years of professional engineering and development experience, OR 10+ years with a graduate degree, including experience in the aerospace and defense industry.
• Prior experience as a Technical Project Manager (TPM) or Cost Account Manager (CAM), or working intimately within an Earned Value Management System (EVMS) framework, owning cost and schedule on…