Aerospace Engineering Manager

Career Area: Engineering

Occupation Group: Engineering Managers

Salary

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A typical Aerospace Engineering Manager earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $94,685

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $104,792

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Oversees engineering and technical design of aerospace engineering projects, such as airplane or rocket components. Manages communication and coordination among different types of engineers working on a project. Supervises project schedule, budget, and communications with stakeholders.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Aerospace Engineering Manager is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Planning: Working experience with the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve desired goals.
• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
• Problem Solving: Problem solving consists of using generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, for finding solutions to problems.
• Leadership: Leadership is both a research area and a practical skill encompassing the ability of an individual or organization to lead or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Budgeting: Experience planning how the financial resources of a business or department are to be allocated during the next business period.
• Scheduling: Working experience making schedules, which are basic time-management tools, consisting of a list of times at which possible tasks, events, or actions are intended to take place withing an organization.
• Engineering Management: Experience organizing, administering, and planning the operational performance of complex engineering driven enterprises.
• Project Management: Project management is the discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria.
• Systems Engineering: Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design and manage complex systems over their life cycles.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Aerospace Engineering Manager that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Avionics: Working experience of Avionics. Avionics are the electronic systems used on aircraft, artificial satellites, and spacecraft. Avionic systems include communications, navigation, the display and management of multiple systems, and the hundreds of systems that are fitted to aircraft to perform individual functions.
• Engineering Projects: Project Engineering bridges the boundaries between engineering and project management, leading the technical workers who contribute to the building of structures or products.
• Engineering Leadership: Experience providing the technical leadership of change.
• Engineering Activities: Working experience of Engineering Activities, which includes all activities or functions of an engineer, invloving the application of science and mathematics to the design, manufacture or maintenance of complex products.
• Air Vehicle Engineering: Working experience of Air Vehicle Engineering, which consists of the following functional areas: Air Vehicle Engineering, Aeromechanics, Structures, Materials Engineering, Subsystems, and Aerial Vehicle Engineering Science and Technology.

Salary Boosting Skills

A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills:

• Aerospace Engineering: Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft.
• Autonomous Systems: Working experience of Autonomous Systems. An autonomous system (AS) is a collection of connected Internet Protocol (IP) routing prefixes under the control of one or more network operators on behalf of a single administrative entity or domain that presents a common, clearly defined routing policy to the Internet.
• Air Vehicle Engineering: Working experience of Air Vehicle Engineering, which consists of the following functional areas: Air Vehicle Engineering, Aeromechanics, Structures, Materials Engineering, Subsystems, and Aerial Vehicle Engineering Science and Technology.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Engineering Manager
• Senior Project Engineer
• Project Engineer
• Manager Engineering
• Senior Ground Segment Chief Engineer

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