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Senior Manager, Engineering Management

L3Harris

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Melbourne, FL
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Requirements

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Secret clearance

Job overview

L3Harris seeks a Senior Manager to lead engineering work in Melbourne/Palm Bay, Florida, supporting mission-critical systems. The role involves coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams, integrating complex systems, supporting customer and engineering working groups, and ensuring technical and performance requirements are met. Candidates need substantial related experience and a bachelor’s degree, graduate degree, or equivalent experience; an active security clearance and several technical capabilities are preferred.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Team LeadershipEarned Value ManagementCost Account ManagementBasis of Estimate WritingProposal DevelopmentComplex Systems IntegrationTest Procedure AnalysisEngineering Drawing DevelopmentRequirements AnalysisSystems VerificationRisk MitigationTechnical CommunicationCustomer EngagementGround System RF Terminal DevelopmentAnalytical Skills

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent ExperienceGraduate Degree or Equivalent Experience12+ Years Related Experience10+ Years Related Experience16+ Years Related ExperienceAbility to Obtain Secret ClearanceActive Security Clearance

Full job description

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Title: Sr. Manager Engineering Management

Job Code: 47471

Job Location: Melbourne, FL

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

Job Description:

L3Harris Corporation is seeking an experienced Sr. Manager to join our dynamic team in Melbourne/Palm Bay, FL. This role presents a unique opportunity to tackle complex challenges, broaden your technical expertise, and make significant contributions to mission-critical systems that safeguard the United States and our allies. As part of our elite group of skilled professionals, you will experience a collaborative culture that values teamwork and shared success.

Essential Functions:

  • Ability to lead a team of multi-disciplinary engineers including: systems integration, test, mechanical, electrical, software, specialty and design functions

  • Earned Value Management and/or Cost Account Management Experience

  • Basis of Estimate writing and proposal experience

  • Integration of complex systems spanning multiple customers

  • Ability to write and analyze test procedures

  • Ability to read and develop engineering drawings

  • Facilitate and support working group meetings with the customer and the engineering team responsible for end products

  • Collaborate with the L3Harris engineering team to analyze requirements, identify potential gaps, and propose solutions

  • Develop & Execute Verification plans to ensure compliance with all technical and performance criteria

  • Work with technical team to identify, mitigate and close program risks

  • Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills in a technical information environment; interact, anticipate, and respond to customer needs

  • Ability to obtain DOD Secret Security Clearance

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 12 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 16 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

  • Active security clearance

  • Extensive experience in large ground system RF terminal development

  • Strong analytical skills and experience with systems verification

  • Strong Earned Value Management Experience

  • Prior Leadership Role

#Li-CS3

L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. L3Harris is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws. L3Harris maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law.

Please be aware many of our positions require the ability to obtain a security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens. In addition, applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment may be subject to government security investigation(s) and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

By submitting your resume for this position, you understand and agree that L3Harris Technologies may share your resume, as well as any other related personal information or documentation you provide, with its subsidiaries and affiliated companies for the purpose of considering you for other available positions.

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How this job compares

Set against the 2,260 open Engineering Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 8, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Florida median$126–252K/yr48 salary ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 69 open Engineering Management jobs in Florida and 2,260 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Florida
Experience
This posting asks for at least 12 years of experience — more than three in four Engineering Management postings that state a minimum ask for (median 8 years, across 1,910 postings).
Education
850 of the 2,260 open Engineering Management jobs (38%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 8, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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