Engineering Manager

Amro Fabricating Corporation•Mukilteo, WA

21d•$140,000 - $170,000

About The Position

In this role, you will lead the operational and people-management foundation of a functional engineering group. You will oversee resource planning, consolidate labor demand across programs, coordinate staff assignments, and support programs in defining clear, actionable engineering work. You will also partner closely with technical experts to ensure engineering standards, qualifications, and training are effectively delivered, helping the team build capability while keeping program execution on track.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Engineering.
5 or more years of engineering leadership experience, including at least 2 years in aerospace or engineering.
Demonstrated experience in resource planning, scheduling, and managing technical staff.
Ability to manage data-driven scheduling across multiple concurrent programs.
Experience supporting staff career growth while balancing program needs.
Ability to partner with technical experts to route design sign-off, waivers, and contested technical decisions appropriately.
Experience helping programs translate ambiguous engineering requests into scoped work packages.
This position requires U.S. person status under U.S. export control laws, including U.S. citizens and nationals, lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees.

Nice To Haves

Discipline-specific technical depth that supports partnership with technical experts.

Responsibilities

Leads consolidation of labor demand across programs to create a unified view of committed, requested, and open needs.
Coordinates functional resource allocation, balancing workload, program priorities, and individual career development goals.
Acts as traffic control for resource requests by sequencing work, identifying conflicts, and preventing reactive scheduling issues.
Drives proactive hiring by identifying staffing gaps using consolidated demand data.
Partners with technical experts to schedule, track, and maintain engineering standards and training for the functional group.
Manages qualification tracking for new hires and transfers, ensuring progression through the qualification ladder.
Supports programs by breaking down engineering requests into scoped, staffable work packages.
Works with program leads to define realistic schedule and effort expectations before commitments are made.
Identifies required skill sets for tasks and routes ambiguous technical requests to the appropriate expert.
Provides direct people management, including goal-setting, coaching, performance reviews, onboarding support, and routine administrative oversight.