Engineering Manager, Hydrogen Power & UAV Systems

Neoexsystemsinc; Elyria (OH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

NEOEx Systems in Ohio is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the corporate engineering team and support development of our liquid hydrogen and drone energy systems. Reporting to the President & CEO, you will build scalable teams and drive programs from concept to production for DoD-space oriented projects.

You will define processes, manage budgets, hire staff, ensure safety, and coordinate with suppliers and customers.

Qualifications

• 6-8 years of relevant work experience.
• 3+ years leading and managing engineering teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated ability to present complex technical content to leadership and external customers.
• Must understand the importance of safety procedures and follow safety practices.
• Strong business acumen with demonstrated capability to make data-driven decisions.
• Develops long-range budget and resource projections to achieve multi-year business/financial plan and product innovation goals.
• Ability to travel up to 10%.

Responsibilities

• Build, structure, and scale engineering teams to keep pace with rapid growth; own hiring, performance, and development.
• Lead prioritization, execution, and delivery of engineering programs, ensuring adherence to scope, timelines, and cost targets.
• Establish a strong engineering culture grounded in technical rigor, safety, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Define team processes, tools, and standards for design, documentation, analysis, and test.
• Drive integration, test, reliability, and deployment discipline from lab to production.
• Lead all manufacturing, process, tooling, CAM/CAD, and program engineering activities.
• Develop the scope of all technical work, coordinate the team, evaluate and support prioritization of work assignments and assist with problem resolution for the full customer product life cycle.
• Evaluate suppliers’ capability and capacity to meet production schedule and cost targets.
• Maintain the test facility roadmap - identifying capability gaps, leading infrastructure investments, and scaling test operations to support our accelerating development efforts.
• Lead project Systems Engineering tasks including requirements management, design control management, hazards management, production management, standards certifications, and reviews management.
• Assist in project Safety and Mission Assurance including safety and mission assurance management, quality and reliability management.
• Assist in Product Development including contributing ideas and methods for new product designs and modification of existing product designs, contributing to the planning of fabrication methods and identification of required equipment and materials.
• Assist in project Missions Operations including operations planning, ground operations, and ground operations training.
• Assist in project Systems Integration and Test including test planning and testing.
• Assist in hiring and training qualified engineering staff.
• Mentor engineering staff on engineering tasks.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Safety awareness

Data-driven decisions

Budget planning

Long-range planning

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Job description

NEOEx Systems in Ohio is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the corporate engineering team and support development of our liquid hydrogen and drone energy systems. Reporting to the President & CEO, you will build scalable teams and drive programs from concept to production for DoD-space oriented projects.

You will define processes, manage budgets, hire staff, ensure safety, and coordinate with suppliers and customers.