Head of Engineering - Eastern Communications
About The Position
Eastern Communications, Ltd. is a critical communications provider headquartered in Long Island City, Queens, NY. Founded in 1976 and acquired from original ownership in 2020, Eastern provides infrastructure, technical services, field replacement parts, and maintenance to a range of end users including public safety, transportation, utilities, and the federal government. The company has earned its exceptional reputation for delivering the highest quality products and services over its 40+ year history. In February 2023, Eastern acquired Marshalltown, Iowa-based RACOM Corporation and in November 2025, acquired PMC Wireless. It now comprises 240 employees across 16 locations nationwide. The Head of Engineering is a senior leadership role responsible for setting technical direction, building highâperforming teams, and ensuring engineering execution consistently enables delivery confidence, customer trust, and longâterm sustainability. This individual will lead and evolve our engineering organization supporting mission-critical communications systems. The Head of Engineering is a people-first technical leader with the credibility to guide complex engineering decisions and the leadership maturity to build scalable capability across disciplines.
Requirements
- Bachelorâs degree in Engineering or a related technical field (advanced degree preferred)
- 12+ years of experience in complex systems or missionâcritical engineering environments
- 5+ years leading engineering teams or managers
- Strong background in systemâlevel engineering (e.g., RF, networking, missionâcritical communications, or similar regulated environments)
- Proven ability to balance technical depth with people leadership and organizational accountability
Responsibilities
- Lead all engineering teams and disciplines, including Systems, RF and Network functions
- Build, mentor, and retain highâperforming engineering leaders and teams
- Establish clear roles, expectations, and career paths
- Define longâterm technical direction and reference architectures
- Establish engineering standards and design review processes
- Balance innovation with standardization and operational supportability
- Own engineering quality and defensibility across system designs
- Identify and mitigate technical and architectural risk early
- Support a pauseâandâescalate culture when delivery confidence is threatened
- Collaborate closely with Project Management, Field Services, Operations, and Sales Engineering
- Support complex customer engagements requiring senior technical leadership
- Engage vendors at an architectural and standards level
Benefits
- Health, dental and vision insurance
- 401k and company match
- Annual Performance Review and accompanied bonus
- Paid holidays, vacation and sick days
- Advancement opportunities
- Safe, clean & friendly work environment
- Performance-based bonus eligibility
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits
- Paid time off and company holidays
- Opportunities for professional growth within a nationally expanding organization
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
