Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager

The Engineering Manager is primarily responsible for overseeing client communication, cross-site coordination, and ensuring all business and technical deliverables are completed on time and to quality standards across multiple offices. This role provides leadership guidance to site leads, supports performance evaluations, incorporates client feedback for continuous improvement, and drives operational alignment. In addition, the manager will provide hands-on technical support as needed to ensure delivery success and client satisfaction.

Leadership / Operational Oversight Responsibilities (90%)Serve as the primary liaison between the client and internal teams, ensuring clear, consistent, and proactive communication regarding project status, risks, priorities, and deliverables.

Facilitate effective communication across all supported offices to ensure alignment on objectives, timelines, staffing, and execution strategy.

Support oversight of production and technical execution across multiple facilities to ensure deliverables are completed on schedule, within scope, and to the required quality standards.

Monitor key performance indicators and project milestones to proactively identify risks, delays, or resource constraints impacting business outcomes.

Work closely with site leads to identify process inefficiencies, operational gaps, and improvement opportunities impacting productivity and delivery performance.

Coordinate engineering and operational priorities across all supported facilities to ensure consistent execution standards and unified direction.

Ensure all client-facing deliverables meet contractual requirements, quality expectations, and internal standards prior to release.

Provide leadership guidance and coaching to site leads and managers to drive accountability, professionalism, and high-performance team culture.

Partner with local leadership to conduct annual performance evaluations and provide structured, actionable feedback for employees across each office.

Gather and communicate client feedback to site leadership and teams, developing improvement plans where needed to enhance performance and client satisfaction.

Promote continuous improvement initiatives across offices, ensuring lessons learned and best practices are shared and implemented consistently.

Act as an escalation point for performance, delivery, or client-related concerns, ensuring timely resolution and alignment across all stakeholders.

Technical Responsibilities (10%) – DESIGN ENGINEERING TRACK Designing of aero-structural components using CATIA V5

Design, validation, manufacture, and delivery of aircraft fuselage and propulsion structure components

Areas of expertise may include primary and secondary structure design

Collaborate with stakeholders – present reviews and gate checks – Preliminary, Intermediate, and Critical Design Reviews Ensure to meet the agreed schedule with the customer and their suppliers by releasing the parts

Support project manager with tracking and coordination of the projects

Customer specification interpretation

Communication with all teams (engineering, tooling, production, quality) to assure the product is completed correctly and on schedule to the customer

Technical Responsibilities – STRESS ENGINEERING TRACK Perform static, fatigue and dynamic stress analysis for aero structures

Use of classical hand calculation approach to analyze both primary and secondary structures

Experience in both metallic and composite structures/components

Provide technical solutions from conceptual to detailed design stage

This job description is not intended to be all inclusive and the employee will also perform other reasonably related business duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor and other management as required.

Education/Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related engineering discipline
• Minimum 5 years of aerospace engineering experience in Design Engineering and/or Stress Engineering
• Prior engineering technical leadership experience (Engineering Lead/Supervisor/Manager) preferred

Licenses/Credentials/Certification…