Mechanical Engineering Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Manage and grow a team of mechanical engineers — hiring, mentoring, professional development, and succession planning — fostering collaboration and innovation.
• Ensure the correct and consistent application of mechanical design methodologies, processes, tools, and standards within your team, and contribute to their continued development across the discipline.
• Ensure your engineers are trained, equipped, and supported to do high-quality work, and be accountable for the quality of your team's mechanical design, analysis, and documentation.
• Staff and balance your engineers across concept development efforts and program teams based on skills, availability, and development needs, in coordination with hardware leadership and peer managers.
• Contribute hands-on as a working manager — mechanical design, analysis, and test at the individual-contributor level.
• Support early concept development with feasibility assessments, initial sizing, and reuse-versus-new recommendations that put programs on sound technical footing.
• Review designs and analyses at milestone design reviews to confirm integrity and performance against approved requirements and design baselines.
• Uphold disciplined change management, ensuring departures from approved designs are reviewed and approved before implementation.

Job requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
• 7+ years of experience as a mechanical or structural engineer, including 2+ in a leadership or supervisory role
• Proficiency in CAD systems, including 3D modeling and drawing generation
• Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
• Design for Manufacturing (DFM)
• Proficiency in mechanical analysis methods and tools
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Effective communication and collaboration skills