Product Engineering Associate Manager

Role overview

Core responsibilities

• Manage research, design, development, and testing of commercial off-the-shelf or custom computing hardware and electrical components.
• Lead recruitment, selection, training, assignments, performance assessment, and personnel management for engineering staff.
• Oversee designs for component installation in chassis, racks, cabinets, workstations, customer facilities, and shelters.
• Plan, direct, review, and coordinate project documentation to meet customer contract and company requirements.
• Ensure preparation of specifications, vendor evaluations, and test-report analyses.
• Maintain accurate hardware technical baseline documentation through controlled configuration-change processes and drawing standards.
• Prioritize hardware engineering work and produce mechanical and electrical documentation and manufacturing artifacts, including schematics, diagrams, drawings, models, parts lists, and bills of material.
• Manage engineering design toolsets for legacy, current, and prospective programs.
• Ensure design processes comply with organizational standards and maintain checklists and lessons-learned records.
• Prepare and review basis-of-estimate work, maintain effort metrics, and support future estimates and pricing.
• Manage staff loading, timesheets, training plans, performance management, labor planning, and technical-review participation.
• Perform program technical work, track infrastructure engineering performance, and support strategic planning for the E&T discipline.

Basic qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant engineering discipline.
• At least nine years of experience in project management, product engineering, hardware design, development, manufacturing engineering, or equivalent.
• At least one year of related leadership experience and/or two years of performance or earned-value (cost and schedule) management experience.
• Aptitude for problem-solving in a team environment, initiative, autonomy, and learning ability.
• Ability to adapt to dynamic conditions, lead through change and ambiguity, and manage conflicting priorities while progressing milestones.
• Demonstrated leadership, positive team-oriented conduct, and strong written and verbal communication.
• Knowledge of hardware engineering processes and analytical tools.
• Experience with product management and Agile methods.
• Familiarity with PTC Creo and/or SolidWorks, Windchill, DOORS, Microsoft Project, and common Microsoft tools.

Desired skills and experience

• Desired experience includes systems engineering, requirements management, change management, human factors, and specialty engineering.
• Desired experience includes EMI/EMC or environmental qualification and machine, sheet-metal, or electromechanical design.
• Desired knowledge includes FEA modeling and thermal packaging for heat dissipation in product enclosures.
• Desired experience includes CFD thermal simulation, 3D CAD modeling, and peer review of FEA and thermal analyses.
• Desired experience includes mentoring hardware packaging, mechanical, or thermal analysis engineers.
• Desired experience includes analysis of vendor-furnished objective evidence against military environmental standards and defense-domain experience.