Senior Manager - Mechanical & Aerospace Engineer

The Amentum team is looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated, and hardworking Senior Manager that takes ownership of their work, thrives on the opportunity to take on challenges, and takes pride in their accomplishments. If you are a high performing Mechanical or Aerospace Leader who enjoys mentoring, coaching, and guiding in a challenging and dynamic environment where your contribution to a team is both critical and valued, our company will provide you the tools and opportunity to flourish (and have fun while you’re at it).

This is a Senior Managerial role that 50% management 50% technical leading the Mechanical and Aeropspace functional group. The group contain approximately 20 technical staff from interns to chief/principles. The team flows between projects in the space and air domains based on need. As the Functional Group manager, you would guide the staffing, maturation, and growth of the team. You would provide mechanical technical guidance to air and space portfolio. You would jump in as needed to support gaps as a player/coach to help the team be successful. The team focuses on research, design, develop, analyze, test, and production of a variety of aerospace systems for government customers. A successful candidate will wear many hats and be a Subject Matter Expert in a couple areas key to the mechanical groups performance. The team has active projects in things such as mechanical design for RF electronics packaging, materials selection for spaceborne payloads including adhesives and radome materials, manufacturing process definition including lamination, payload integration, aerospace materials, aircraft stores, composite fabrication, operational demonstrations, aircraft integration, and/or qualification testing with consultation from other engineering disciplines. They will sometimes represent the mechanical group for customer interactions and milestones.

The Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering group is a high performing team with a breadth of experience in mechanical design, payload integration, aircraft integration, electronics manufacturing process development, RF electronics packaging, materials selection and testing, structural, and thermal analysis/design.  

The Senior Engineering Manager for Mechanical and Aerospace will perform the following:    

• Act as Function Group Manager for the Mechanical team.    
• Support the conversion of CONOPs and customer requests into payload and component requirements.    
• Support Business Development plans for the Mech team.   
• Creation of multiple concepts to meet those requirements including, but not limited to, selection of materials, thermal management, structural design, and test methods for space-based RF electronics.    
• Guidance of maturation on multiple projects assuring team has the tools, skills, and bandwidth to execute successfully.   
• Aid in the coordination across integrated product teams.   
• Act as Program Manager for smaller projects ad hoc.   
• Support reporting of testing results including support for design reviews both internal and external.   
• Creation of multiple concept solutions to those requirements and execution of the chosen path.
• Jumping in as needed to close gaps including creation of 3D CAD (SolidWorks) design and drafting of mechanical/electrical components and assemblies, and aid in vendor research and selection. Represent the mechanical group in classified and unclassified settings to audiences up to executive levels.

Amentum’s health and welfare benefits are designed to invest in you and in the things you care about. Your health. Your well-being. Your security. Your future. Eligible employees and their dependents may elect medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, and, if eligible, a deferred compensation plan and Executive Deferral Plan. Employees will also receive 17 days of vacation per year, seven paid holidays, plus floating holidays and caregiver leave. Hired applicants will be able to purchase company stock and have the opportunity to receive a performanc