POSITION SUMMARY
The Engineering Manager provides strategic leadership and technical oversight for all engineering disciplines supporting the NASA Wallops Range Contract. This position provides direct supervision and leadership to a diverse team of approximately 30 engineers across multiple disciplines. The Engineering Manager is responsible for ensuring technical excellence, operational readiness, and mission success in support of NASA, Department of War, and commercial customer launch and range operations.
Specific duties include:
- Ensuring range instrumentation and systems are available to support projects
- Overseeing maintenance activities and leading the sustaining engineering processes
- Managing all aspects of asset management projects including sustaining engineering tasks and projects, maintenance projects, upgrade projects, capital projects, acquisition projects, and disposal projects
- Managing all aspects of sustaining and development engineering including the requirements and design processes, ensuring IT Security compliance, controlling scope and costs of engineering efforts
This role serves as the primary technical lead and is the liaison to the customer for engineering activities, managing complex projects, infrastructure modernization efforts, and day-to-day range operations support while maintaining the highest standards of safety, quality, and mission assurance. This role manages workload distribution and resource allocation across 30+ launches per year and ongoing engineering sustainment of assets to support launch activities.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Aerospace, Electrical, Mechanical, Systems, Software, or related discipline) from an ABET-accredited program
- 10-15 years of progressive engineering experience
- 5+ years of engineering management or leadership experience managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams
- Proven ability to lead, motivate, and develop high-performing technical teams
- Strong decision-making skills with ability to balance technical, schedule, and cost constraints
- Experience with government contracts, preferably NASA or DoD programs
- Experience with complex systems integration and infrastructure projects
- Strong understanding of systems engineering principles and lifecycle processes
- Experience with managing organizational Asset Management and Engineering processes in support of full lifecycle management
- Experience with configuration management, technical drawing development and review
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree in Engineering or related technical field preferred
- Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification preferred
- Background in range operations, launch systems, or aerospace test and evaluation highly desired
- Secret security clearance
Other Requirements:
- Must be eligible for and able to obtain/maintain a Secret security clearance
- U.S. Citizenship required
- Willingness to work occasional extended hours to support mission-critical activities
- Ability to travel periodically (estimated 5-10%)
ARES Benefits:
- ARES offers a competitive compensation and benefit package. Full time employees may participate in:
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- HSA/FSA Accounts
- Life & Disability Insurance
- Critical Illness & Accident Insurance
- ESOP
- 401(k) Plan
- Paid Time Off & Holidays
ARES is an equal opportunity employer and complies with E-Verify. We believe in hiring a diverse workforce and fostering an inclusive culture. We are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis, such as disability and veteran status, or any other basis covered under applicable law. ARES shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 60-300.5(a) and 60-741.5(a).
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace, Electrical, Mechanical, Systems, Software, or related Engineering from an ABET-accredited program
- 10–15 years of progressive engineering experience
- At least 5 years of engineering management or leadership experience managing multidisciplinary engineering teams
- Experience leading, motivating, and developing technical teams
- Strong decision-making skills balancing technical, schedule, and cost constraints
- Experience with government contracts, preferably NASA or Department of Defense programs
- Experience with complex systems integration and infrastructure projects
- Strong understanding of systems engineering principles and lifecycle processes
- Experience managing asset management and engineering processes across the full lifecycle
- Experience with configuration management and technical drawing development and review
- Master's degree in Engineering or related technical field
- Project Management Professional certification
- Background in range operations, launch systems, or aerospace test and evaluation
- Secret security clearance
- Eligibility and ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance
- U.S. citizenship
- Willingness to work occasional extended hours for mission-critical activities
- Ability to travel periodically, estimated at 5–10%
What We Do
ARES Corporation is one of the foremost Engineering, Project Management, Reliability and Mission Assurance, IT Architecture and Security, and Software Solutions companies in the United States. We differentiate ourselves from our competition by integrating unique, industry-leading quantitative risk management methodologies into every project to provide superior-quality products and services, on time and within budget. With a top-notch team of engineers, scientists, and other professionals, ARES focuses on solving industry’s most complex technical challenges in the key areas of nuclear, clean technology, space, and defense.
