MANAGER - SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Job Details Job Location: Seattle Engineering Center - SEC - Seattle, WA 98108 Salary Range: $170,000.00 - $195,000.00 About the Team AeroTEC’s Engineering Services Department provides comprehensive, full‑service aerospace engineering services to customers in aircraft design, test, and certification. The department supports consulting on aircraft design, performance, similarity analysis, certification activities, test requirements, and testing documentation. Expertise areas include Flight Sciences, Electrical Systems, Mechanical Systems, Powerplant & FIFA, Air Systems, Cabin Safety, Structures, Flight Control, and Liaison Engineering. About the Role The Manager, Systems Engineering leads the Systems Engineering function across all programs and projects within AeroTEC’s portfolio. Responsibilities include technical leadership, ownership of core systems engineering domains (requirements management, development & process assurance, safety, security, certification, development planning, verification & validation, configuration baseline support, airworthiness, environmental qualification, reliability/maintainability/availability, and cybersecurity coordination), development and application of systems engineering processes, team management, cost, schedule and quality performance, and strategic capability growth. In This Role You Will: Provide technical leadership across all Systems Engineering domains for every program and project, including: Requirements management – origination, decomposition, allocation, traceability, validation, verification, and change control of system and sub‑system requirements. Development and process assurance – establishing, monitoring, and continuously improving the systems engineering lifecycle, work products, and gate reviews. Safety – leading the system safety process, including FHA, PSSA, SSA, common‑cause analysis, and particular risks, and ensuring closure of safety‑driven requirements. Security – ensuring information and aircraft system security (including cyber‑airworthiness considerations) are addressed in architecture, requirements, and certification artifacts. Certification – ownership of the systems aspects of certification plans, means of compliance, regulator engagement, and the production of compliance evidence. Development planning – producing and maintaining systems engineering plans, schedules, and resource forecasts that integrate with overall program plans. Additional domains as applicable: verification & validation excluding flight and ground test (analysis, inspection, similarity, review‑based methods, and integration lab testing), configuration baseline support, environmental qualification, reliability/maintainability/availability, cybersecurity, and supplier technical management. Develop, maintain, and continuously improve AeroTEC’s systems engineering processes, procedures, templates, and tools; mentor and support other engineering disciplines in the correct application of those processes. Lead cross‑functional collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, including: Flight Test – to align test requirements, instrumentation needs, and verification approaches. Design Teams (Mechanical, Electrical, Structures, Powerplant, Avionics, Interiors, etc.) – to ensure system requirements are correctly flowed, allocated, and implemented. Configuration and Data Management – to maintain the integrity of requirements, interfaces, and certification baselines. Program Management – to integrate systems engineering scope, deliverables, and risks into program plans and customer reporting. Customers, suppliers, and certification authorities – representing AeroTEC’s systems engineering position with technical authority and professionalism. Manage and support a portfolio of projects from a Systems Engineering perspective – own the cost and schedule performance of systems engineering scope, applying Earned Value Management (EVM) principles. Produce variance analyses and corrective action plans. Oversee the quality of systems engineering work products across all domains, ensuring artifacts (requirements, safety analyses, certification plans, integration lab test plans/procedures/reports, V&V evidence, etc.) meet AeroTEC, customer, and regulatory standards prior to release. Identify the need for, scope, source, and manage the work product of contractors, consultants, and external service suppliers supporting Systems Engineering activities; ensure their deliverables meet technical, quality, schedule, and budget expectations. Manage the Systems Engineering team – Group Leads and Engineers – including day‑to‑day direction, workload balancing, performance management (feedback, reviews, recovery plans), professional development, mentoring, training plans, succession planning, recruiting, onboarding, retention, and administrative tasks (shift scheduling, timesheet review, approvals). Identify, communicate, and actively manage technical and programmatic risks within the Systems Engineering scope; report key metrics, status, and issues to the Head of Engineering, Program Management, and customers as appropriate. Develop and execute strategic plans for capability growth in Systems Engineering, including tooling, methods (e.g., model‑based systems engineering), training, capacity, and cost optimization. Complete special projects and other duties as assigned by the Head of Engineering. Qualifications – The Skills You Bring (Minimum) Education: Four (4)‑year degree in Engineering (Aerospace, Avionics, Electrical, Mechanical, Systems, or related). Other engineering fields may be considered. Experience: Minimum ten (10) years of aerospace engineering experience, including substantive systems engineering work across multiple listed domains (requirements, safety, certification, etc.). Minimum three (3) years of experience leading technical personnel and managing a project to completion, with responsibility for cost, schedule, and quality outcomes. Preferred: experience with Earned Value Management on aerospace programs, and experience managing external contractors, consultants, or service suppliers. Physical Requirements: Regularly required to talk and/or hear, sit, stand, walk, use hands to handle or feel, and reach with hands and arms. Must have the ability to sit for long periods of time. Occasionally required to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities: close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Travel (flying and driving) to various domestic and international worksites and client offices is required. Frequent travel to the Moses Lake Facility for extended periods during scheduled flight test operations may be required. AeroTEC Ways of Working and Benefits AeroTEC is on a mission to Accelerate the Evolution of Aerospace, leading the market in integration and testing of sustainable propulsion technologies and pioneering the future of sustainable aerospace. We invest in our people with customized career development plans, in‑house learning, mentorship, and up to $5,250.00 per year in education reimbursement. We provide unlimited time‑off for salaried employees, employer‑paid premiums for health coverage (PPO/HDHP plans), dental, $40,000 life insurance policy, and access to the Employee Assistance and Health Advocate Program. Additional benefits include 401(k) and employer match, vision, additional life insurance options, critical illness, accident, hospital indemnity, cell phone cost reimbursement, pet insurance, ID watchdog, legal shield, and perk spot discounts. Performance is rewarded with quarterly bonuses for salaried employees, manager bonuses for management roles, and staff incentive plans for sales positions. Positions may or may not qualify for signing bonus or relocation assistance. AeroTEC encourages a culture where fun and work coexist, offering team events such as a Flying Club, Softball League, Seattle Mariners tickets, team bike rides, karting, golf scrambles, and more. Compliance: This position must meet export control compliance requirements. A “U.S. Person” as defined by 22C.F.R. §120.15 is required, including U.S. Citizen, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. #J-18808-Ljbffr AeroTEC