Technical Manager, Systems Engineering

Job Title: Technical Manager, Systems Engineering

Job Code: 45378

Job Location: Rockwall, TX

Job Schedule: 9/80 - Employees work 9 out of every 14 days - totaling 80 hours worked (Every Other Friday Off)

Job Description:

The Technical Manager, Systems Engineering, provides technical and organizational leadership for the development, integration and delivery of complex defense and aerospace systems. This role includes leadership of a diverse team of systems and field engineers, who drive the design, implementation, and deployment activities across multiple engineering programs. This hybrid management / practitioner role also includes practice as an experienced Systems Engineer responsible for managing teams supporting mission-critical programs while ensuring alignment with customer needs, contractual obligations, and organizational objectives.The ideal candidate brings strong people leadership, deep systems thinking, and demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary engineering efforts in a highly regulated aerospace and defense environment.

Essential Functions:

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of systems engineers supporting defense and aerospace programs, platforms, or technology initiatives.
• Ensure technical execution aligns with customer requirements, program cost and schedule constraints, mission performance objectives, and contract deliverables.
• Support major program reviews and customer reviews, including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, PRR, and related milestone events.
• Collaborate with program management, chief engineers, software, hardware, test, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and field support teams to ensure integrated program execution.
• Manage staffing, workload planning, performance management, employee development, and succession planning within the systems engineering organization.
• Support proposal efforts, technical volume development, basis of estimate preparation, technology roadmaps, and capture activities for new business opportunities.
• Identify and mitigate technical, programmatic, and integration risks across complex system-of-systems environments.
• Promote continuous improvement in systems engineering processes, digital engineering practices, MBSE adoption, and technical rigor.
• Serve as a key interface to customers, suppliers, subcontractors, and senior leadership on program status, technical issues, and strategic engineering matters.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 12 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 16 years of prior related experience.
• 9+ years of progressive engineering experience, including significant systems engineering experience in defense, aerospace, avionics, mission systems, C4ISR, weapons, space, radar, communications, or other complex regulated environments.
• 5+ years of leadership experience managing technical teams, engineering organizations, or major engineering work scopes.
• Ability to obtain and a secret security clearance

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Master’s degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Engineering Management, or a related discipline.
• Active security clearance.
• Familiarity with model-based systems engineering tools and methods.
• Demonstrated success leading teams through complex integration, test, and fielding activities.
• Experience supporting competitive captures, proposal strategy, technical solution development, and customer briefings.
• Understanding of cybersecurity, system safety, reliability, maintainability, and human systems integration considerations in defense systems.
• Certification in Scaled Agile or similar development methodologies
• Ability to balance strategic technical leadership with day-to-day execution in a fast-paced, high-consequence environment.
• Demonstrated experience applying systems engineering processes across the full lifecycle of complex aerospace or defense systems.
• Experience leading cross-functional engineering teams in a matrixed program environment.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage effectively with customers, program leadership, and executive stakeholders.
• Familiarity with classified or export-controlled environments and the ability to work within those constraints.