Senior Manager, Engineering Services

Position Summary

The Engineering Services Manager leads a highly adaptable engineering team designed to scale with business priorities, budget, and resource availability. This leader is responsible for delivering hardware development projects while optimizing engineering capacity through a combination of internal talent and strategic third-party partners. This position also manages external engineering service providers and contract development partners to supplement internal capabilities and accelerate project delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Delivery

• Lead the execution of small- and medium-sized hardware development and/or VAVE projects from concept through production release, delivering predictable results for cost, schedule, quality, and performance

• Provide engineering leadership across multiple concurrent projects by applying standardized development processes, governance, metrics, and Ralliant Business System (RBS) principles

• Develop and manage a flexible engineering delivery model that optimizes internal talent, strategic technology partners, and OEM/ODM partners to align engineering capacity with changing business priorities, budgets, and product roadmaps

• Manage third-party engineering relationships while ensuring high-quality deliverables, protection of intellectual property, and compliance with engineering standards

• Continuously evaluate engineering capacity, resource allocation, and project priorities to maximize business value, organizational agility, and execution efficiency

Contractor and Third-Party Management

• Select, onboard, and manage third-party engineering contractors and development partners
• Support process development and compliance for development of product requirements, technical deliverables, schedules, budgets, and performance expectations
• Monitor contractor performance, quality, and execution against agreed objectives
• Build long-term strategic relationships with third party partners to create scalable engineering capacity

Cross-Functional Engineering Leadership

• Lead a multidisciplinary team of engineering individual contributors and people leaders across hardware-related disciplines
• Remove execution barriers and facilitate effective communication across functions
• Support technical decision-making while empowering engineers to own project execution
• Establish PCB layout priorities aligned with overall product development schedules
• Establish clear performance expectations and support career development for team members
• Promote a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performance engineering culture
• Lead enterprise-wide product development strategy, creating scalable frameworks and governance that drive innovation, efficiency, and growth 

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical field

• Demonstrated success delivering hardware products from concept through production

• At least 2 years leading multi-disciplined teams

• Strong project management and resource planning skills

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities

• International and domestic travel required up to 25% of the time