Product Engineering Manager Jobs in Hawaii
Product Engineering Manager jobs in Hawaii are concentrated in Honolulu, Kapolei, and Hilo, where defense contractors, healthcare networks, and technology firms drive consistent demand for engineering leadership at both mid-level and senior tiers. Employers such as Booz Allen Hamilton, Leidos, and The Queen's Health Systems maintain ongoing product and systems engineering operations across the islands. The most in-demand specialties include embedded systems, defense and federal technology programs, and healthcare IT product development. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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The Project Management role involves planning, executing, and overseeing projects so that they are completed on time, within budget, while meeting quality standards and health and safety requirements. The role works closely with cross-functional teams to define project scope, set objectives, allocate resources, and develop detailed project plans. The role monitors progress, manages risks and change, resolves challenges, and communicates with stakeholders to provide regular updates. The role manages moderately complex projects. This role will typically manage small to mid-size projects and is expected to independently deliver results with minimal supervision, while progressively increasing revenue responsibility.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities include the following for delivering day-to-day operations for small to mid-sized projects:
- Project team leadership expectations:
- Set direction: Support defining objectives, decision-making processes, schedules, budgets and success factors. Assist team by providing clarity on what the objectives are for an assignment, how decisions will be made, development of schedules and budgets, and what critical success factors the client is trying to achieve.
- Communicate: Help establish effective communication methods for team standups, technical/design decisions, and client interactions.
- Support Team Motivation: Assist in empowering team members, resolving conflicts, providing feedback and celebrating success.
- Establish Trust: Demonstrate integrity, competence, consistency, loyalty, and transparency.
- Create a safe environment: Support and assist in providing an atmosphere where ideas and creativity thrive.
- Embrace thought and experience diversity: Support an environment where diverse backgrounds, geographies, and different perspectives are all heard, respected and considered.
- Develop project team members: Support project team development by contributing to continuous learning, skills development and mentoring.
- Execution of BC’s project delivery requirements:
- Scope: Collaborate and prepare detailed scopes of work to set clear expectations and prevent project overruns. Develop clear assumptions and limitations and set realistic expectations and a solid pathway to delivering quality work successfully.
- Schedule: Collaborate on the development and maintenance of project schedules to provide for timely resource allocation and delivery. Recommend and assist implementation of schedule delay mitigation measures as needed.
- Budget: Develop and collaborate on work breakdown structures and project budgets aligned with scope and schedule to set projects up for financial success. Manage budget on project to meet planned project performance metrics.
- Quality Management: Create, implement and monitor quality management plans and processes to enhance client trust, minimize deficiencies, incorporate our standards and quality review processes and collaborate with team members to contribute to quality.
- Change Management: Identify and manage internal and external changes to mitigate risks. Identify and recommend change management, in collaboration with project team, prepare the scope and budget for the change order, and gain client endorsement and approval for the change to minimize financial and execution risk to BC.
- Risk Management: Ability to identify risks, develop risk mitigation strategies and perform ongoing risk monitoring and mitigation throughout the project lifecycle. Identify and escalate risks, collaborate with teams to prepare mitigation strategies for each risk, monetization of each risk, and update the risk profile on the project throughout the lifecycle of a project.
- Health & Safety: Lead by example and follow BC policy and client requirements for health and safety. Lead development and implementation of health and safety plans per the project specific requirements.
- Manage external resources: including third parties/vendors to deliver successfully on their contracted scope, quality, budget, and schedule.
- Delivery of Project and Business Performance Metrics: Lead achievement of project goals related to scope, schedule, budget and quality. Monitor profitability through routine earned value analysis and compliance, business revenue forecasting and timely invoicing/collections.
- Client Service and Sales/Marketing Support and Engagement: Ability to build successful relationships with Clients, while collaborating with client service managers and project teams to assess client satisfaction. Monitor and share clients’ critical success factors for project success and client satisfaction.
- Flexibility to adapt and execute various additional assignments based on evolving needs.
Mentorship
- May provide mentorship, guidance, support and knowledge-sharing to help less experienced team members develop their skills and grow in their roles.
Skills and Competencies
- Solid knowledge of project management tools and techniques, including project planning, budget management and risk management.
- Strong budget, quality and change management skills,
- Understanding of quality and change management tools, techniques and processes.
- Understanding of contract management and client service.
- Strong business acumen and understanding of financial performance and revenue generation. and how individual projects fit into larger organizational goals.
- Proficient in communication, client service and engagement skills.
- Proficient team/staff management skills to build and maintain strong staff relationships.
Experience
- Typically, a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience successfully managing projects of increasing complexity. Specifically:
- Competency in development and monitoring of project schedules
- Competency in development and monitoring of project budgets
- Experience with risk management concepts
- Experience collaborating with cross functional teams.
- Proven experience in project planning, risk and change management, and contract management of small to mid-size projects.
Education
- A bachelor’s degree in project management, engineering, or business administration or equivalent relevant experience is required.
Salary Range: The anticipated starting pay range for this position is based on the employee’s primary work location and may be more or less depending upon skills, experience, and education. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Location B: $104,000 - $142,000
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Benefits and Other Compensation: We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee health, performance, and success which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time off and parental leave, paid holidays, 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match, performance-based bonus eligibility, employee referral bonuses, tuition reimbursement, pet insurance and long-term care insurance. Click here (https://brownandcaldwell.com/careers/benefits/) to see our full list of benefits.
About Brown and Caldwell
Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, Brown and Caldwell is a full-service environmental engineering and construction services firm with 50 offices and over 2,100 professionals across North America and the Pacific. For more than 75 years, we have created leading-edge environmental solutions for municipalities, private industry, and government agencies. We strive to be the company of choice—to our clients, who benefit from our passion for delivering exceptional quality, and to our employees, present and future, who share our commitment to client service, collaboration, and innovation. Join us, and you will find a home where you can do your best work, reach new levels of expertise, and enjoy exceptional development opportunities. For more information, visit www.brownandcaldwell.com (http://www.brownandcaldwell.com)
This position is subject to a pre-employment background check and a pre-employment drug test.
Notice to Third Party Agencies: Brown and Caldwell does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement and approved engagement request with Brown and Caldwell, Brown and Caldwell reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency.
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Where Hawaii roles are concentrated, by current openings.
Product Engineering Manager Job Market in Hawaii
A snapshot from current Hawaii openings, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
- County of Hawaii3

- CVS Health2

- Marriott International2

- Hilton1

- Jacobs1

Top Industries Hiring
- Hospitality & Tourism5
- Government & Public Sector3
- Retail2
- Healthcare & Medical Services2
- Consulting & Professional Services1
What Hawaii Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in product engineering manager jobs across Hawaii.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field required
- Five or more years of engineering experience with at least two in a leadership role
- Demonstrated experience managing cross-functional product development teams end to end
- Proficiency with agile methodologies, sprint planning, and product roadmap execution
- Experience coordinating with federal or defense program stakeholders preferred for Hawaii roles
- Strong background in systems integration, hardware-software co-development, or embedded platforms
Product Engineering Manager Jobs in Hawaii: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a product engineering manager in Hawaii?
The typical path starts with a bachelor's degree in engineering or computer science followed by several years of individual contributor engineering work before moving into a team lead or senior engineer role. Hawaii does not require a state-issued license specific to product engineering managers, but engineers in certain disciplines may hold a Professional Engineer registration through the Hawaii State Board of Professional Engineers. Most employers in Hawaii prioritize demonstrated leadership experience and a portfolio of shipped products or completed programs over specific certifications.
How much do product engineering managers make in Hawaii?
Product engineering managers in Hawaii earn a median of about $151,670 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $99,920 for the lowest 10% to over $216,650 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire product engineering managers in Hawaii?
Hawaii product engineering manager roles are posted by County of Hawaii, CVS Health, and Marriott International and others right now, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of July 2026. Hawaii's concentration of federal defense programs and large healthcare networks means that government contractors and health systems account for a significant share of these openings.
Which Hawaii cities have the most product engineering manager jobs?
Honolulu, Hilo, and Lahaina have the most product engineering manager openings in Hawaii. Honolulu dominates because it hosts the state's largest defense contractors, federal agencies, and hospital networks, while Kapolei's growth as a secondary business hub and Hilo's proximity to research and energy infrastructure draw smaller but steady demand.
Are there remote product engineering manager jobs in Hawaii?
Yes, and more than most technical leadership roles, since product engineering management is heavily meeting- and roadmap-driven rather than hands-on with physical equipment. About 100% of product engineering manager openings tied to Hawaii are remote or hybrid as of July 2026, reflecting how much of the coordination work can be done asynchronously. Roles tied to classified defense programs or on-site hardware development are the most likely to require in-person presence.
How can I get hired as a product engineering manager in Hawaii with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is moving laterally from a senior individual contributor engineering role into a team lead position within the same organization. Hawaii employers such as Booz Allen Hamilton and large hospital health systems regularly post associate program manager and technical lead openings that serve as stepping stones. Building a portfolio of product launches or completed engineering programs, earning a Project Management Professional credential, and targeting federal contractor rotational programs based in Honolulu can all accelerate the transition from engineer to manager without prior formal management experience.
Where can I find and apply to product engineering manager jobs in Hawaii?
You can find and apply to product engineering manager jobs in Hawaii on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings across the state. Search the available roles, identify the ones that fit your background and location, and apply directly to each position through the listing.
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