Top Engineering Manager Jobs

Leads depot-level sustainment for PAC-3 launchers, coordinating repairs, recapitalization, logistics, material movement, and international shipments. Manages cost, schedule, technical performance, traceability, replenishment, demand management, data systems, and customer communications. Supervises and develops direct reports through hiring, performance reviews, training, and mentorship. Requires collaboration across production, logistics, customers, and union-represented personnel, with full-time on-site work and potential domestic or international travel.

Leads RF engineering development and RF hardware requirements, design, integration, testing, and troubleshooting. Manages multiple projects, schedules, budgets, cost estimates, change proposals, contract and procurement activities, and earned value management. Supports formal design reviews, technical interchange meetings, product life cycles, and customer coordination for missile, reentry vehicle, or spacecraft RF subsystems. Requires leadership, analytical, organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Leads manufacturing engineering initiatives for cable, harness, and electromechanical assembly production. Responsibilities include developing assembly solutions, defining site engineering strategy, mentoring staff, managing risks and corrective actions, and coordinating resources, budgets, and schedules. The role also supports process optimization, automation, digital work instructions, equipment performance, quality improvement, and continuous improvement within a defense manufacturing environment.

Manages an electronics engineering team supporting Fleet Ballistic Missile avionics and test missile kit development. Oversees electronics research, design, development, production, testing, failure investigations, material disposition, technical reviews, and audits. Handles personnel recruitment, training, assignments, performance assessments, and discipline. Communicates technical status to leadership and government customers while guiding teams through engineering and programmatic challenges.

Leads the F-22 Systems Engineering Configuration Management team, controlling and auditing hardware, software, documentation, and configuration baselines throughout the aircraft lifecycle. Supports production, sustainment, upgrades, systems integration, verification, requirements allocation, interface definition, risk and cost analysis, and compliance with DoD and Lockheed Martin standards. Manages team recruitment, training, performance, assignments, and recognition or disciplinary actions.

Leads mechanical engineering teams responsible for researching, designing, analyzing, developing, testing, and integrating aerospace mechanical systems and hardware. Coordinates staffing, assignments, technical processes, training, risks, schedules, costs, proposals, and product strategy. Collaborates with integrated product teams, suppliers, stakeholders, and senior leadership throughout the engineering lifecycle. Requires mechanical engineering expertise, technical leadership, aerospace hardware experience, U.S. citizenship, and ability to obtain a security clearance.

Leads quality engineering initiatives across product design, materials, production, testing, and supplier performance. Directs technical evaluations, failure investigations, material review board decisions, corrective and preventive actions, inspection and testing processes, and statistical analysis. Collaborates with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, program management, customers, and suppliers to resolve quality issues and improve product and process performance. Manages quality teams and initiatives while supporting compliance with industry and military specifications.

Leads a global supply chain engineering team supporting aerospace manufacturing and procurement. Manages technical supplier risk, shortage mitigation, root-cause investigations, corrective actions, alternate-source evaluations, and manufacturing readiness assessments. Oversees engineering team recruitment, development, performance, resource planning, and compensation. Partners with buyers, design engineering, supplier quality, subcontract managers, and suppliers to resolve technical issues involving aerospace components and manufacturing processes. Requires up to 20% domestic and international travel.

Leads a 7–12-person multidisciplinary engineering organization delivering Mission Planner Module and Radar Control Processor capabilities. Oversees systems and software engineering, requirements, testing, C++ development, radar modeling, signal processing, staffing, roadmaps, technical reviews, and program performance. Drives employee development, resource allocation, cost and schedule commitments, engineering process improvement, and participation in real-world demonstrations.

Leads quality engineering initiatives covering product and process excellence, technical evaluations, failure investigations, material review board decisions, corrective actions, inspection and testing processes, statistical analysis, and supplier performance. Collaborates with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, program management, and customers to resolve quality issues and improve organizational performance. Manages or leads quality personnel and initiatives while supporting compliance with applicable aerospace and industry specifications.

Leads project management for aircraft flight simulation and Hardware-in-the-Loop laboratory infrastructure. Manages proposals, schedules, costs, technical scope, integration and testing of flight software and systems. Responsibilities include leading multidisciplinary project activities, mitigating risks, communicating progress, performing cost and schedule variance analysis, and preparing monthly estimates to complete. Requires project management and Earned Value Management experience, with U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain a Secret clearance.

Leads quality engineering initiatives across product design, materials, manufacturing, testing, and supplier performance. Directs technical evaluations, failure investigations, material review board decisions, corrective and preventive actions, inspection and testing processes, and statistical analysis. Collaborates with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, program management, and customers to resolve quality issues and improve product and process performance. The role also involves team leadership, quality strategy development, and presenting findings to senior management.

Leads a software organization supporting Signals Reconnaissance products, managing approximately 15 direct reports and overseeing about 50 engineers. Responsibilities include staffing, resource allocation, performance management, software planning, scheduling, process improvement, metrics and EVM analysis, estimating, program execution, customer coordination, and adoption of DevSecOps, automated testing, software factories, Agile practices, and generative AI.

Manages quality engineering teams and quality systems across product design, materials, manufacturing, reliability, suppliers, and research and development. Oversees technical evaluations, inspections, testing, statistical analysis, failure investigations, corrective actions, supplier certification, and process improvement. Collaborates with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, program management, and customers to ensure compliance, reliability, and performance standards.

Leads a 100+ person Manufacturing Engineering and Test Engineering organization across multiple shifts. Oversees aerospace and defense manufacturing, test development, facility operations, process improvement, advanced manufacturing technology adoption, safety, labor relations, talent development, and on-time production of radar, missile launcher, and integrated combat-system hardware.

Leads electronics design, analysis, testing, integration, and risk mitigation for mission-critical aerospace flight hardware while managing and mentoring a 10–12-person engineering team. Coordinates with software, mechanical, propulsion, and launch operations groups, reviews technical designs, guides tradeoffs, manages performance, and reports program health metrics to leadership.

Leads systems integration, test, and evaluation for PAC-3 Integrated Air and Missile Defense programs. Manages engineering staff, test planning and execution, subsystem integration, customer requirements, technical reviews, readiness reviews, schedules, cost objectives, and cross-functional coordination. Oversees personnel development, staffing, performance management, and program execution across domestic and international efforts.

Leads systems integration and testing, production integration, and industrial engineering teams supporting complex aerospace assembly and test operations. Oversees workforce management, system test planning, schedule execution, issue resolution, capacity modeling, process improvement, throughput analysis, facility flow, labor standards, and Lean/Six Sigma initiatives. Coordinates multidisciplinary teams, manufacturing and ATLO activities, customer requirements, and technical stakeholders while briefing senior leaders and customers.

Leads a team responsible for testing and qualifying phased-array antennas and RF subsystems. Manages near-field antenna test facilities, calibration, staffing, safety, capital upgrades, automation initiatives, cost estimating, proposal support, and process improvement. Partners with program management, systems engineering, and supply chain teams to meet schedules, improve test efficiency, and mitigate risks.

Leads the GPS IIIF Software and Data Integration engineering team, overseeing flight software, database products, classified network infrastructure, simulators, integrity and continuity efforts, product releases, cost and schedule management, and customer engagement. Manages employee performance, development, staffing, budgets, risks, configuration control, and the transition from development to production.

Manages systems engineering teams responsible for FBM ground test activities during pre-production and deployment. Develops integration and test program plans, detailed test plans, test requirements, and coordinates testing across internal and external organizations. Performs systems integration, verification and validation, requirements allocation, interface definition, risk analysis, anomaly investigation, and corrective action. Requires management experience, systems testing experience, U.S. citizenship, and the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance.

Leads systems engineering for a KSA C4I modernization program, including requirements decomposition and traceability, MBSE architecture modeling, CONOPs, system documentation, integration planning, and technical roadmap development. Functionally manages supporting engineers and coordinates customer-facing design activities. The role may involve travel to KSA customer sites and off-hours testing.

Manages systems engineers responsible for production and deployed missile assessment test programs, including qualification, production assessment, aging, and service-life evaluations. Oversees technical planning, systems integration, verification and validation, anomaly investigations, corrective actions, risk analysis, requirements allocation, and interface definition. Leads employee staffing, training, performance assessment, work assignments, and recognition or disciplinary actions while ensuring test programs meet technical, schedule, cost, and customer requirements.

Leads engineering projects and F-35 sensor sustainment operations, including contract execution, budgets, proposals, logistics coordination, test equipment availability, and long-term sustainment strategy. Supervises and develops staff, performs financial analysis, and collaborates with sustainment, repair, procurement, quality, engineering, and program leadership teams to meet technical, schedule, cost, and customer-support objectives.

Leads and mentors electrical engineers supporting the Future Interceptor program. Reviews technical solutions and proposals, drives design assurance and program execution, and collaborates across engineering and operations teams. Provides technical leadership in circuit card design, PLD, RF engineering, and related electrical hardware disciplines while communicating with senior leadership and ensuring delivery of program requirements.