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Job Title: Senior Manager, Specialty Engineering

Job Code: 46675

Job Location: Waco, TX

Job Schedule: 9/80 - Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

The Waco Senior Manager for Specialty Engineering leads day-to-day execution for Waco-based Specialty Engineering work across four assigned teams supporting System Safety, Reliability & Maintainability, Integrated Logistics Support, Technical Publications, Technical Training, and Configuration Management.

This role serves as the site leader for schedule, cost, staffing coordination, issue resolution, and local stakeholder engagement while reporting directly to the Specialty Engineering Sector Manager. The position also maintains dotted-line alignment with functional process leaders to ensure consistent execution of processes, procedures, technical standards, and department expectations across the assigned disciplines.

Essential Functions:

Ability to obtain a US Secret security clearance.

10% travel based on business needs.

Own financial and schedule performance for Waco-based Specialty Engineering work and provide visibility to priorities, risks, and recovery actions.

Serve as the primary point of contact for Waco Specialty Engineering site execution and performance, including escalation support and day-to-day coordination.

Lead execution across four assigned Waco-based teams spanning 6 different engineering disciplines (System Safety, Reliability & Maintainability, Integrated Logistics Support, Technical Publications, Technical Training, Configuration Management), including staffing alignment, workload balancing, and issue resolution.

Coordinate with Waco engineering team leads, program leadership, and local stakeholders to align priorities, staffing, dependencies, and execution plans.

Provide people leadership for assigned teams, including goal setting, performance reviews, development planning, recognition, and corrective action as appropriate.

Partner with functional process leaders to ensure consistent application of procedures, tools, standards, training, and best practices across assigned disciplines.

Drive collaboration across Waco functional groups and with the broader Specialty Engineering organization to improve communication, responsiveness, and execution discipline.

Support implementation of department processes, priorities, metrics, and expectations, and communicate status, risks, and support needs to department leadership.

Ensure compliance with applicable customer requirements, company policies, contractual obligations, and process requirements relevant to assigned Specialty Engineering work.

Drive continuous improvement through standard work, metrics, lessons learned, and local execution reviews.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 12 years of prior engineering experience.

Graduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.

In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 16 years of prior engineering experience.

Demonstrated experience leading technical or engineering teams in a regulated environment.

Demonstrated experience owning execution performance, staffing coordination, and issue resolution for site, program, or functional work.

Demonstrated experience overseeing employee performance management, team development, and organizational effectiveness.

Demonstrated experience working effectively in a matrixed organization with direct and dotted-line coordination across multiple functions.

Preferred Additional Skills

Experience supporting Specialty Engineering disciplines (System Safety, Reliability & Maintainability, Integrated Logistics Support, Technical Publications, Technical Training, Configuration Management) and coordinating execution across multiple functional teams.

Experience supporting aerospace and defense programs across development, production, and sustainment.

Experience using metrics, standard work, and operating reviews to improve local execution performance.

Experience partnering with engineering, quality, operations, supply chain, or program teams to resolve execution issues.

Experience leading work in an on-site production or engineering environment.

Advanced degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, or Business Administration.

Active US Secret security clearance.

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