Senior Design Engineering Manager, Aerospace & Defense

Socket.dev; Mukilteo (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

HSA with company contribution

FSA

Life and AD&D insurance

Disability insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Karman Space & Defense seeks an experienced Design Engineering Manager in the United States to lead a large design engineering group, centralize labor demand, and ensure staffing aligns with multiple concurrent programs. The role emphasizes people management, career development, and close collaboration with program leads to meet schedule and technical goals.

Qualifications include at least 7+ years in design engineering, 5+ years in engineering leadership (2+ in aerospace), and a DoD Secret

Qualifications

• 7+ years in design-engineering environments.
• 5+ years of engineering leadership, incl. 2+ years in aerospace/engineering.
• Experience with resource planning, scheduling, and managing technical staff.

Responsibilities

• Consolidate labor demand across programs into a single functional-group view.
• Serve as traffic control for resource requests and identify conflicts early.
• Drive proactive hiring by identifying staffing gaps from demand data.
• Allocate functional resources across programs to balance workload and support career growth.
• Track assignments against work orders and identify over- or under-utilization.
• Coordinate logistics for engineering standards and training delivery, incl. scheduling and tracking.
• Maintain qualification ladders and monitor time-to-independent-qualification for new hires and transfers.
• Support programs in scoping engineering tasks into staffable work packages.
• Collaborate with program leads to set realistic schedule and effort expectations.
• Identify required skill sets for engineering requests and route issues to technical experts.

Skills

Leadership

Resource planning

Scheduling

People management

Data-driven scheduling

Career development

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder communication

Education

B.S. in Engineering

Job description

Karman Space & Defense seeks an experienced Design Engineering Manager in the United States to lead a large design engineering group, centralize labor demand, and ensure staffing aligns with multiple concurrent programs. The role emphasizes people management, career development, and close collaboration with program leads to meet schedule and technical goals.

Qualifications include at least 7+ years in design engineering, 5+ years in engineering leadership (2+ in aerospace), and a DoD Secret