Mechanical Engineer Manager

Description:

Role Overview: As the Mechanical Engineering Manager, you will manage a team of mechanical design and analysis engineers working on various SRM programs. Responsibilities include technical leadership and oversight of the work being performed in your group, as well as people management responsibilities. The ideal candidate has direct, hands-on experience with the design, analysis, and manufacture of solid rocket motors and their key subsystems, such as motor cases, nozzles, propellant grains, and igniters. If you are a hands-on leader who leads by example and elevates those around you, this role is for you.

Responsibilities
 

• Provide technical leadership to mechanical design engineers in our Rocket Motor Systems organization.
• Implement and enforce current policies and procedures, and develop new ones as needed.
• Act as a front-line people manager for a team of mechanical design engineers.
• Peer review engineering product definitions, structural, and thermal analysis.
• Coordinate with other engineering disciplines on cross-disciplinary items.
• Establish best practices for the RMS Hardware organization.
   

Required Qualifications
 

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience with the design, development, and manufacture of solid rocket motors.
• Strong technical background in mechanical design, structural analysis, or thermal analysis.
• Strong people management skills.
• Exceptional research and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to travel to other sites, customer sites, or supplier sites as business demand dictates (10-25% travel expected).