Engineering Manager

ARES Corporation; Wallops Island (VA); In loco; USD 140.000 - 190.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

HSA/FSA Accounts

Life & Disability Insurance

Critical Illness & Accident Insurance

ESOP

401(k) Plan

Paid Time Off & Holidays

Descrizione del lavoro

ARES Corporation seeks an Engineering Manager to provide strategic leadership and technical oversight for the NASA Wallops Range Contract. The role leads ~30 engineers across disciplines, ensuring technical excellence, readiness and mission success for NASA, DoD and commercial customers.

You will oversee asset management, sustaining engineering, system integration, IT security, and liaison with customers while managing schedules, cost and safety.

Competenze

• ABET-accredited engineering degree required.
• 10–15 years of progressive engineering experience.
• 5+ years leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams.
• Proven ability to lead, motivate and develop technical staff.
• Strong decision-making balancing tech, schedule and cost.
• Experience with government contracts, NASA or DoD preferred.
• Experience with complex systems integration and lifecycle processes.
• Familiarity with asset management and configuration management.

Mansioni

• Provide strategic leadership and technical oversight for all engineering disciplines.
• Lead a team of ~30 engineers across multiple disciplines.
• Serve as primary technical liaison to the customer on engineering activities.
• Oversee range instrumentation, maintenance, and sustaining engineering.
• Manage asset management, upgrades, and capital projects while controlling scope and costs.

Conoscenze

Leadership

Decision making

Systems engineering

Team motivation

Stakeholder management

Formazione

ABET-accredited engineering program

Master's degree preferred

Strumenti

Asset management

Configuration management

Descrizione del lavoro

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WRC Full Time Wallops Island, VA, US

2 days ago Requisition ID: 2722

POSITION SUMMARY

The Engineering Manager provides strategic leadership and technical oversight for all engineering disciplines supporting the NASA Wallops Range Contract. This position provides direct supervision and leadership to a diverse team of approximately 30 engineers across multiple disciplines. The Engineering Manager is responsible for ensuring technical excellence, operational readiness, and mission success in support of NASA, Department of War, and commercial customer launch and range operations.

Specific duties include:

• Ensuring range instrumentation and systems are available to support projects
• Overseeing maintenance activities and leading the sustaining engineering processes
• Managing all aspects of asset management projects including sustaining engineering tasks and projects, maintenance projects, upgrade projects, capital projects, acquisition projects, and disposal projects
• Managing all aspects of sustaining and development engineering including the requirements and design processes, ensuring IT Security compliance, controlling scope and costs of engineering efforts

This role serves as the primary technical lead and is the liaison to the customer for engineering activities, managing complex projects, infrastructure modernization efforts, and day-to-day range operations support while maintaining the highest standards of safety, quality, and mission assurance. This role manages workload distribution and resource allocation across 30+ launches per year and ongoing engineering sustainment of assets to support launch activities.

Required Qualifications:

• 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
• 5+ years of engineering management or leadership experience managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams
• Proven ability to lead, motivate, and develop high-performing technical teams
• Strong decision-making skills with ability to balance technical, schedule, and cost constraints
• Experience with government contracts, preferably NASA or DoD programs
• Experience with complex systems integration and infrastructure projects
• Strong understanding of systems engineering principles and lifecycle processes
• Experience with managing organizational Asset Management and Engineering processes in support of full lifecycle management
• Experience with configuration management, technical drawing development and review

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Engineering or related technical field preferred
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification preferred
• Background in range operations, launch systems, or aerospace test and evaluation highly desired
• Secret security clearance

Other Requirements:

• Must be eligible for and able to obtain/maintain a Secret security clearance
• Willingness to work occasional extended hours to support mission-critical activities
• Ability to travel periodic (estimated 5-10%)
• ARES offers a competitive compensation and benefit package. Full time employees may participate in:
• Medical Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• HSA/FSA Accounts
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Critical Illness & Accident Insurance
• ESOP
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid Time Off & Holidays

ARES is an equal opportunity employer and complies with E-Verify. We believe in hiring a diverse workforce and fostering an inclusive culture. We are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis, such as disability and veteran status, or any other basis covered under applicable law. ARES shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 60-300.5(a) and 60-741.5(a).