The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

ECAD Technology Group Leader

Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Degree in Engineering or related discipline
  • 7+ years in engineering design, development, and management of complex systems
  • Strong supervisory skills for teams of 10-20
  • Excellent written and communication skills
  • Ability to present technical materials effectively to various audience levels

Responsibilities

  • Manage administrative tasks and career growth for group members
  • Communicate management information to the team
  • Lead and mentor team members, conducting performance evaluations
  • Oversee staffing needs, from requisition to interviews
  • Act as Lead Subject Matter Expert in ECAD operations
  • Shape technology offerings and explore new business areas
  • Align team capabilities with customer strategic priorities

Benefits

  • Work-life balance programs including flexible work options
  • Employee engagement clubs (photography, yoga, etc.)
  • Health and finance workshops
  • Social events off-site
  • Discounts to local museums and cultural activities
Full Job Description

Job Description Summary:

Group Leaders are the first layer of Line Management in Engineering at Draper. Their main responsibility is the care and development of their direct reports to ensure Draper has the workforce it needs to meet its customer needs both now and in the future. Group Leaders are responsible for administrative duties (e.g. staffing, hiring, performance reviews), workforce development (e.g. training, mentoring), and developing/furthering the group's charter/capabilities (e.g. developing technology/capability roadmaps, improving processes/ procedures/ best practices).

The ECAD Technology Group Leader manages, mentors and trains a multi-disciplinary technical operations team including manufacturing engineers, ECAD librarians, ECAD documentation specialists, and Siemens Xpedition EDM tool administrators. The team’s primary mission is to bridge the gap between hardware design, IT infrastructure, and manufacturing execution. The ideal candidate thrives on optimizing complex workflows, ensuring data integrity, and fostering collaboration across distinct technical disciplines. You will oversee the overall operations, tools and equipment, design and data workflows, library governance, compliance with quality and security requirements, and technology roadmap and forward planning.

Job Description:

Duties/Responsibilities

  • Manage administrative details and career development for group members.

  • Convey relevant information from management to group members.

  • Lead, mentor, build depth in their area of expertise, and conduct performance evaluations of group members.

  • Maintain awareness of staffing requirements, write job requisitions (responsibilities and qualifications) for hiring as required, review and disposition incoming resumes, conduct interviews.

  • Serve as Lead Subject Matter Expert for area of specialty.

  • Shape Draper’s technology offerings and open new business areas based on program and technical experience.

  • Analyze Draper strategy and work with management to build capability in key areas that align Draper's capabilities with customers' strategic priorities.

  • Maintain cognizance of group member activity and address issues.

  • Conduct performance evaluations of group members.

  • Supervise, mentor, and train a multi-disciplinary technical team of ECAD librarians, tool administrators, documentation specialists and manufacturing engineers.

Serve as primary Subject Matter Expert for ECAD operations including:

  • Workflow and processes
  • Requirements for security and documentation marking
  • Interfacing with upstream and downstream systems
  • Support for unclassified and classified environments
  • Tools, hardware, software, & license allocations
  • Work in close collaboration with the ECAD Layout Group.
  • Software releases and updates
  • Lead ECAD technology roadmap development
  • Plan, coordinate and lead execution of data integration with internal and external organizations
  • Manage ECAD process maps, forms and compliance. Support audits.
  • Ensure processes, documentation, equipment and software are compliant with Draper’s Security and Quality policies

Skills/Abilities

  • Excellent communication and written skills.

  • Excellent ability with presenting technical material to various levels of the engineering organization and customers.

  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.

  • Strong ability to supervise a team of 10-20.


Education
Requires a degree in Engineering or related discipline.

Experience
7+ years of experience in the engineering; design, development, and management of complex systems.

Additional Job Description:

Applicants selected for this position will be required to obtain and maintain an US government security clearance.

Job Location - City:

Cambridge

Job Location - State:

Massachusetts

Job Location - Postal Code:

The US base salary range for this full-time position is

$95,000.00 - $245,000.00

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Union ranges will be in compliance with the collective bargaining agreement's approved rates by location and role. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.  Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and does not include bonuses or benefits.

Our work is very important to us, but so is our life outside of work. Draper supports many programs to improve work-life balance including workplace flexibility, employee clubs ranging from photography to yoga, health and finance workshops, off site social events and discounts to local museums and cultural activities. If this specific job opportunity and the chance to work at a nationally renowned R&D innovation company appeals to you, apply now www.draper.com/careers.

About The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

Draper Laboratory is an American non-profit research and development organization, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts; its official name is The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. The laboratory specializes in the design, development, and deployment of advanced technology solutions to problems in national security, space exploration, health care and energy. The laboratory was founded in 1932 by Charles Stark Draper at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop aeronautical instrumentation, and came to be called the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory. During this period the laboratory is best known for developing the Apollo Guidance Computer, the first silicon integrated circuit based computer. It was renamed for its founder in 1970, and separated from MIT in 1973 to become an independent, non-profit organization. The expertise of the laboratory staff includes the areas of guidance, navigation, and control technologies and systems; fault-tolerant computing; advanced algorithms and software systems; modeling and simulation; and microelectromechanical systems and multichip module technology.
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