Senior Manager, Project Engineering
About The Position
Trident Systems Space Electronic Systems (SES) develops high-performance space-based electronic systems for DoD, Intelligence Community, and civil space customers. The organization emphasizes strong engineering principles, continuous improvement, collaborative product development, and rigorous design and peer reviews. The Senior Manager, Project Engineering leads and develops the project engineering team, which serves as the integrating technical execution lead on space electronics programs. The team owns the engineering execution baseline, including scope and work breakdown structure, integrated master schedule, cost account performance and estimate-to-complete, technical risk, configuration management, and the technical review cadence. This role works in partnership with Program Managers, who hold program accountability, and Chief Engineers, who hold design authority. The successful candidate will have delivered complex hardware and software programs from concept through delivery, understand both EVMS program control and Agile development methods, and be able to develop engineers while holding the team accountable for its commitments. The role reports to the Director, Systems Engineering, Integration & Test, supervises others, and may require travel or off-site work.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science/Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
- At least 12 years of professional engineering and development experience, or at least 10 years with a graduate degree, including aerospace and defense industry experience.
- Experience as a Technical Project Manager or Cost Account Manager, or intimate working experience within an EVMS framework, owning cost and schedule on complex hardware development programs, including WBS development, integrated scheduling, variance analysis, and EAC/ETC.
- Solid understanding of the full systems engineering development lifecycle, hardware/software integration, and Agile methodologies using JIRA.
- Experience planning and leading formal technical reviews such as SRR, PDR, CDR, and TRR.
- Experience with requirements traceability and configuration management/change control.
- Experience providing technical direction or leading engineering teams or projects.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to explain technical and programmatic status clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree in a STEM field or engineering management.
- Prior line-management experience, including hiring, performance reviews, and salary planning.
- Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Agilist/Scrum Master, or equivalent project management or Agile certification.
Responsibilities
- Lead the project engineering team across multiple concurrent programs as the integrating technical lead, partnering with Program Managers and Chief Engineers.
- Define system and product scope and the engineering work breakdown structure; establish and execute program governance and the technical review cadence.
- Ensure internal design reviews and customer technical reviews are completed to achieve program milestones.
- Manage and develop the project engineering team through performance management, goal setting, coaching, and career development.
- Conduct regular one-on-one meetings and mid-year and annual performance reviews, and provide candid feedback and guidance.
- Identify training, mentoring, and cross-training opportunities; support succession planning for critical skills; and foster a collaborative, transparent, and accountable team culture.
- Oversee cost account management across programs and hold the team accountable for cost and schedule compliance within an EVMS framework.
- Provide technical oversight for weekly cost and schedule variance analysis, root-cause identification, corrective action, and estimates at completion that reflect actual engineering progress and remaining work.
- Partner with Program Managers and schedulers to maintain realistic, logic-driven integrated master schedules and program milestones.
- Translate Agile engineering metrics, including sprints and velocity, into traditional milestone and earned-value reporting.
- Forecast engineering staffing needs across programs.
- Support travel or off-site work as needed and perform other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision health benefits
- Basic life insurance with AD&D
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Voluntary life insurance with AD&D, accident, critical illness, hospital, and pet coverage
- HSA, FSA, and DCFSA spending accounts
- Paid time off
- Holidays
- 401(k) with company match
- Tuition reimbursement
- Parental, maternity, and military leaves
- Annual discretionary bonus for eligible roles
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
