Manager Environmental Control Systems and Thermal Engineering
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Description
You will lead and develop engineers responsible for environmental control systems, thermal management, fluid systems, and related hardware. You will guide architecture, requirements, design, integration, testing, suppliers, flight readiness, risk management, and technical problem solving.
Responsibilities
- Manage, mentor, and develop individual contributors
- Set priorities, ownership, staffing, and execution cadence
- Guide ECS and thermal architecture, design trades, and reviews
- Set expectations for requirements, verification, risk management, configuration control, and design release
- Resolve vehicle interfaces across engineering disciplines
- Lead component, qualification, ground, and flight-test planning
- Oversee component specifications, supplier reviews, prototype builds, and acceptance activities
- Conduct technical analysis and root-cause investigations
- Communicate decisions, risks, progress, resources, and dependencies
Requirements
- US citizenship and an active Secret or higher clearance
- 8+ years of experience in aerospace environmental control systems, thermal engineering, fluid systems, or comparable aircraft mechanical systems development
- Experience directly managing and developing individual contributors
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical discipline
- Thermodynamics
- Heat transfer
- Fluid dynamics
- Aircraft thermal management
- System architecture, requirements, design, integration, and verification leadership
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity