Senior Manager, Engineering

About the role

The Senior 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Effectively leads and develops engineering managers and technical staff.
• Creates clarity around roles, expectations, and accountability.
• Buils trust, psychological safety, and professional respect across the engineering organization.
• Clearly communicates status, 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.
• 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.
• Establishes and uses KPIs to monitor productivity, quality, and delivery performance.
• Improves engineering workflows, review, and governance to increase predictability and efficiency.
• Sure lessons learned are captured and applied across teams.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Qualifications

• To conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorization from the U.S. Government.
• Demonstrate ability in the Armtec 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.

Skills

• Ability to translate strategic objectives into clear priorities, milestones, and execution plans.
• Experience in identifying and mitigating risks to project success.
• Strong foundation in engineering theory and practice.
• Leadership skills, including experience managing managers and setting clear priorities and accountability.
• Data-driven decision making and continuous technical improvement.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage engineering staffing, workload balance, and prioritization.
• Experience in establishing and using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Ability to improve engineering workflows, review, and governance.
• Experience in attracting, retaining, and developing high-performing engineering talent.
• Ability to conduct performance reviews and create meaningful development plans.
• Experience in building bench strength for future technical and leadership roles.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

Not specified.

Schedule

4/10 workweek.