Top Senior Level Jobs in Huntsville, AL

Leads supply chain risk management for defense industrial base suppliers supporting defense programs. Responsibilities include assessing supplier cybersecurity and compliance risks, analyzing vulnerabilities and multi-source data, validating security practices, presenting risk findings, developing mitigation strategies, maintaining SCRM processes, and improving frameworks. The role requires collaboration with engineering, operations, product development, and security teams while ensuring compliance with federal requirements, NIST controls, defense regulations, and quality standards.

Manages facilities construction and design projects from inception through closeout for an Intelligence Community customer. Responsibilities include requirements development, acquisition support, contractor and project oversight, construction inspections, schedule and status reporting, stakeholder coordination, space planning, and enterprise space management. The role reviews proposals, designs, submittals, change requests, and construction compliance while leading multidisciplinary teams and coordinating government and contractor stakeholders.

Leads the development, integration, quality assurance, and delivery of U.S. Army technical publications for ground vehicle systems. Creates operator and maintenance manuals, IETMs, troubleshooting guides, illustrated parts breakdowns, training materials, and safety content. Coordinates with engineering, logistics, safety, and program teams; interprets technical data and validates procedures. Ensures compliance with Army and defense documentation standards, manages structured authoring and publication systems, and supports audits, reviews, and government acceptance.

Leads on-site execution of complex major projects from planning through installation, commissioning, maintenance, and demobilization. Manages multiple projects, contractors, vendors, engineering teams, and client stakeholders while ensuring safety, cost, schedule, quality, and regulatory compliance. Provides leadership across multidisciplinary project teams and travels extensively throughout North America. Relevant experience includes field projects in utilities, petrochemicals, refining, construction, or building services.

Leads complex cross-functional engineering development programs spanning hardware, software, RF, systems integration, testing, and manufacturing. Manages plans, schedules, budgets, risks, milestones, resources, and stakeholder communications from planning through delivery. Provides technical guidance, resolves execution challenges, supports proposals and forecasting, improves processes, and mentors junior project managers. The role requires occasional travel and the ability to obtain a U.S. government security clearance.

Designs and develops compact, low-power IoT-connected water and wastewater monitoring hardware. Responsibilities include mechanical housing, tooling, materials, CAD simulation, prototyping, testing, BOM and PLM management, FMEA, regulatory certification, hazardous-environment safety, supplier coordination, production support, and sustaining engineering. The role also manages 3D printing, mechanical documentation, validation activities, and cross-functional hardware development.

Leads high-complexity dynamics testing programs, including vibration, shock, and sine sweep testing. Owns test setup design, CAD fixtures, instrumentation, pressurization schematics, data management, reporting efficiency, preventative maintenance, and facility optimization. Mentors engineers and technicians, delegates workflows, develops lab schedules, and collaborates with sales and management on proposals, customer requirements, testing throughput, and revenue goals.

Leads mechanical hardware development and testing for aerospace and defense systems, including prototype builds, environmental and flight testing, test planning, fixture design, instrumentation, data acquisition, analysis, and reporting. Provides technical direction to junior engineers, troubleshoots mechanical assembly issues, supports verification and qualification testing, and contributes estimates for prototype and test activities.

Manages rail and barge transportation operations, fleet assets, carrier relationships, procurement, compliance, freight spend, and service performance. Oversees capacity planning, shipment tracking, maintenance, invoices, logistics data, KPIs, contingency planning, and continuous improvement initiatives. Partners with supply chain, procurement, finance, EHS, plants, government agencies, and external logistics providers to ensure safe, reliable, compliant, and cost-effective transportation of raw materials and finished products.

Develop and architect physics-based modeling and simulation software for advanced space nuclear systems. Lead software engineering standards, architecture, code reviews, testing, verification and validation, release management, CI/CD, and documentation. Refactor scientific codes, build multiphysics simulation interfaces, ensure reproducibility, and collaborate with NASA and multidisciplinary engineering teams. The role requires C++, Python, engineering software development, numerical methods, high-performance computing, parallel processing, and the ability to validate physics-based models.