ENGINEERING MANAGER with Security Clearance

Duties/Responsibilities

• Leads system development efforts from concept through production, providing technical direction, oversight, and full lifecycle ownership across all engineering domains.
• Oversees system integration, testing, and verification activities, ensuring comprehensive test coverage on representative hardware or platforms and validating performance against requirements.
• Create, maintain, and communicate detailed product development schedules, ensuring cross-functional alignment on tasks, milestones, dependencies, and delivery expectations.
• Review and approve technical documents and designs, engineering approaches, and development processes to ensure solutions meet performance, reliability, and compliance standards.
• Maintain task progress and time charging to ensure accuracy and alignment with project budgets and schedules.
• Engage the functional team with timely flow-down of information and foster robust collaboration within the team.
• Resolve engineering issues as they arise by working closely with all stakeholders.
• Communicate with technical personnel from multiple skill areas and functions to evaluate technical information and issues impacting design, production, and support of products, services, or other deliverables.
• Supports and leads department initiatives, including process improvement, workforce engagement, talent-recruitment and interviewing, training material development, technology roadmap development, cross-organization collaboration, and other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math) with 10+ years of related experience, or a master's degree with 8 years of related experience or 14+ years of relevant experience in lieu of education.
• 5 years in a leadership or project coordination role, showing increasing responsibility.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Security Clearance.
• Experience in aerospace, defense, unmanned systems, or similar high-precision manufacturing environments.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to collaborate across technical teams.
• Demonstrated ability to lead UAV’s program from concept through production with the development of core systems for an air vehicle and supporting systems.