Lead Engineer - Prototype Build

The Lead Engineer will own the timeline for American Turbines' first turbine, from where it stands today through a fully built and tested demonstrator. You will turn a stack of engineering workstreams, combustion, aerodynamics, mechanical, controls, power electronics, into a single execution plan, and you will be the one accountable for whether that plan holds.

You will set the schedule, break it into tasks, and delegate those tasks to the engineers who own them. You will run daily and weekly engineering meetings, track what's actually getting done against what was promised, and step in wherever the build needs another set of hands: fixturing a part, running a test, chasing a vendor. Beyond keeping the schedule honest, you'll pick up engineering work directly when the team needs it, whether that's helping debug a test rig issue, sanity-checking a design call, or just taking a task yourself when someone's stuck.

This is not a role where you set a plan on a whiteboard and let the team execute it on their own. You will be in the shop as often as you're in a planning meeting, and the team's respect for your leadership will come from both.