Engineering Manager

ARES Corporation•Wallops Island, VA

About The Position

The Engineering Manager provides strategic leadership and technical oversight for all engineering disciplines supporting the NASA Wallops Range Contract. The role directly supervises and leads a diverse team of approximately 30 engineers across multiple disciplines, ensuring technical excellence, operational readiness, and mission success in support of NASA, Department of War, and commercial customer launch and range operations. The Engineering Manager ensures range instrumentation and systems are available to support projects, oversees maintenance activities, and leads sustaining engineering processes. The role manages asset management projects across their lifecycle, including sustaining engineering, maintenance, upgrades, capital projects, acquisition, and disposal. It also manages sustaining and development engineering, including requirements and design processes, IT Security compliance, and control of engineering scope and costs. Serving as the primary technical lead and customer liaison for engineering activities, the manager oversees complex projects, infrastructure modernization, and day-to-day range operations support while maintaining high standards of safety, quality, and mission assurance. The position manages workload distribution and resource allocation across more than 30 launches per year and ongoing engineering sustainment of assets.

Requirements

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.
At least 5 years of engineering management or leadership experience managing multidisciplinary engineering teams.
Proven ability to lead, motivate, and develop high-performing technical teams.
Strong decision-making skills and ability to balance 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 organizational asset management and engineering processes in support of full lifecycle management.
Experience with configuration management and technical drawing development and review.
Must be eligible for and able to obtain and 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 at 5–10%.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree in Engineering or a related technical field.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Background in range operations, launch systems, or aerospace test and evaluation.
Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

Provide strategic leadership and technical oversight for all engineering disciplines supporting the NASA Wallops Range Contract.
Directly supervise and lead a multidisciplinary team of approximately 30 engineers.
Ensure range instrumentation and systems are available to support projects.
Oversee maintenance activities and lead sustaining engineering processes.
Manage asset management projects, including sustaining engineering, maintenance, upgrades, capital projects, acquisitions, and disposals.
Manage sustaining and development engineering, including requirements and design processes.
Ensure IT Security compliance and control the scope and costs of engineering efforts.
Serve as the primary technical lead and customer liaison for engineering activities.
Manage complex projects, infrastructure modernization efforts, and day-to-day range operations support.
Maintain standards of safety, quality, and mission assurance.
Manage workload distribution and resource allocation across more than 30 launches per year and ongoing asset sustainment.