Job DescriptionThis role is for a combined Engineering Manager Role and Technical Contributor/Leader.
This role is a dual role as a coach and player, where some of your time is allocated to being a manager of a team of system engineers and part of your time as a system engineering contributor. This managed balance enables you to work on programs as a technical contributor/leader and manage your systems engineering team. In this model, you can fulfill your desire to be a leader and progress your technical skills as you work to develop our EW products.
Roles and Responsibilities (Team Manager):You will manage a team of engineers (30-40) supported by functional managers that will report to you. You will report directly to the director of Systems engineering, where he/she will be your guide and mentor. As the section manager of systems engineers, you will have the following responsibilities:
- As a senior member of the systems engineering staff help to shape the future of systems engineering to optimize performance
- Know and champion the application of the system engineering process, methods, resources (e.g. tools & people) and culture with your team
- Recruit, retain, train, recognize and develop systems engineers to achieve their highest potential in alignment with the business needs
- Assign team members as appropriate to programs, IRADs and proposals
- Regularly meet with your teams to flow-down company, business area and system engineering information. Share system engineering process, methods, tools and norms with your team
- Ensure group members adhere to BAE Systems' cultural principals, policies and vision
Roles and Responsibilities (Technical/Leader contributor):This part of the role, will enable you to participate in developing our EW solutions for our customers. As the system engineering contributor, you can have the following exciting opportunities:
- Apply your systems engineering skills across the product development lifecycle
- Participate in product capture and proposals, product design, trade studies, requirements derivation and allocation
- Conduct and lead design reviews
- Create engineering development plans
- Develop product architectural design models, performance models and tools
- Lead or participate in system integration, verification and test
- Support to our product sustainment
- Direct or participate in testing our products at customer and USG test facilities
- Support the build of our products our factories.
You may not have experience in all phases of the product lifecycle, but in this role you will have opportunity to further your existing engineering skills and develop new ones.
Because of the need for consistent, in-person collaboration and/or the requirement to perform all work onsite due to the nature of this particular role, it will be performed full-time onsite.
Required Skills and Education- Active DoW Secret security clearance
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as Engineering, Mathematics or Computer Science and 12+ years of work experience or 10+ years with an engineering Masters degree or equivalent
- Experience with Systems engineering development of RFEW or similar DoW systems
- RFEW system design experience and product development (System V diagram)
- Technical team leadership
- Strong skill in people management and team collaboration within systems engineering and across the disciplines
- Able to evaluate root cause and enact timely decision making
- Able to lead a team to adapt to changes efficiently
Preferred Skills and Education- M.S. in either Systems, Software, or Electrical Engineering.
- Active DoW Top Secret security clearance.
- Additional technical depth in specific areas of EW such as Electronic Attack (EA) or Electronic Support Measures (ESM)
- Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) experience.
- System Performance Modeling
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