Engineering Manager, Chemicals

Location: Onsite in Penrose, Colorado, with work transitioning to Pueblo, Colorado. Travel up to 20%, including occasional overnight travel to the Minden, Louisiana area. Applicants must be U.S. Persons eligible to work with ITAR-controlled technology; U.S. citizenship is required if a security clearance is needed.

Salary: $200,000–$230,000 USD base salary annually, excluding benefits and bonus or incentive compensation.

Company

hirify.global develops mission-critical technologies for space, defense, and national security applications.

What you will do

• Lead and mentor chemical engineering teams across process design, equipment fabrication, pilot demonstrations, production scale-up, automation, and energetic materials manufacturing.
• Support chemical and energetic materials programs from development through PDR/CDR and Low Rate Initial Production.
• Set engineering strategy, plans, and resource allocation to meet performance, cost, schedule, and quality objectives.
• Oversee requirements, models, procedures, design documentation, risk assessments, and other engineering deliverables.
• Represent engineering in technical and program reviews while developing talent through coaching and performance feedback.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering or a related field with 5+ years of experience, a master’s degree with 3+ years, or 9+ years of chemical engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
• 15+ years of hands-on chemical synthesis and pilot plant chemical creation experience, including process design and production scale-up.
• 5+ years leading technically complex projects in a regulated or defense environment.
• 5+ years supervising chemical engineering teams of at least five engineers.
• Must be able to work onsite in Penrose, Colorado, transitioning to Pueblo, Colorado.
• Must meet U.S. Person, export-control, explosives-license, background-investigation, and applicable security-clearance eligibility requirements.

Nice to have

• Experience establishing new chemical manufacturing capabilities and working with electrochemistry, evaporation, crystallization, dewatering, drying, grinding, mixing, and energetic-materials packaging.
• Experience with instrumentation, PLCs, industrial communications, Aspen, ChemCAD, MATLAB, and SolidWorks.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible Time Off and programs supporting work-life balance.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
• 401(k) plan with a 50% company match on contributions up to 8%.
• Wellness programs, voluntary benefits, and employee support resources.
• Work alongside a technically focused team in an innovative, mission-driven environment.