Job DescriptionThe Engineering Governance and Process Team is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to help drive our engineering governance and process initiatives. Reporting to the Director of ES Engineering Governance and Process, you will collaborate with engineers across the organization, as well as functional partners and subject matter experts, to support the implementation and maintenance of robust engineering processes and ensure compliance with industry standards. This role involves audit support, metric reporting, process improvement, and management of the Engineering Governance & Process intern(s).
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Support ES Engineering efforts to meet the appropriate application and implementation rigor of our product development process.
- Support Engineering's preparation and participation in internal and external audit activities including CMMI, AS9100D, internal and customer audits. This includes partnering with our Quality organization to plan and resource audits, and assess, review, and analyze audit findings.
- Collaborate with the Business Area Engineering directorates to ensure uniform assessment and reporting of the ES Engineering metrics. This includes collaborating with functional organizations to create and support automated collection and reporting of the standard set of ES Engineering Metrics.
- Coordinate the quarterly Engineering functional Corrective Action Review Board (CARB) and support the generation of ES Engineering Quarterly Business Review (QBR) metrics reporting.
- Support Life Cycle Management (LCM) Engineering Review processes including ensuring compliance to plc, Inc. and ES requirements through the development and maintenance of training material, performing results analysis, publishing bi-annual chairperson newsletters, collaborating with Program Excellence on process interpretation and dashboard development, and supporting Engineering reviews within the LCMS tool.
- Support the Engineering Operational Assurance Statement due diligence process including developing and tracking PLEL questionnaires, reviewing business area leadership affirmations, drafting formal responses, and obtaining VP of Engineering approval.
- Collaborate with the Sector/Business Area leadership to provide enabling capabilities, resources, and processes for process selection and tailoring on projects with engineering content.
- Support the drive to One ES Engineering Process including simplification and streamlining command media to support efficient and effective program implementation. Apply process improvement and engineering methodologies and principles across the Organization to establish, deploy, and maintain processes that are in alignment with Enterprise-level processes and adopted standards.
- Support the collaborative environment in ES Engineering; fully leverage best practices, people, and resources across BAE Systems. Connect with key personnel within ES and the larger BAE Systems, Inc., community to identify and leverage process and reporting practices.
- Management of Governance & Process intern hiring, projects, tasking, and learning and development.
- Support change management activities and initiatives in collaboration with organization leadership. Work to drive higher proficiency and faster adoption of changes impacting project stakeholders and enterprise audiences to ensure optimal results are achieved. Support lean principles, tools, and techniques to build capability and drive improvement at all levels of the organization.
This role involves travel to various in-state/out of state BAE Systems facilities the first Quarter of each year for auditing purposes.
Required Skills and Education- Bachelor's degree and 8 years work experience or equivalent experience.
- Proven ability to define and implement action plans to achieve strategic business goals
- Strong project leadership skills - Excellent collaboration and integration skills
- Demonstrated capability in implementing significant continuous improvements /transformation initiatives
- Proven strength in organizational and personal communication skills
- Proven flexible management style to deal with diverse company cultures and individual differences
- Broad understanding of the functional discipline and product development lifecycle
- Demonstrated the ability to make decisions with clarity in an environment of ambiguity and uncertainty
- Excellent communication, stakeholder-management, and data-driven reporting skills.
Preferred Skills and Education- The ability to support internal and external product development process audits, certification and benchmarking events such as CMMI V2.0, AS9100D and ISO9001.
- The ability to support cross-functional initiatives/teams including root cause and corrective action.
- Knowledge of ES Organizational Processes and Structures.
- Highly developed interpersonal skills with excellent written and oral presentation skills for interfacing and coordinating with company personnel, including our functional partners in the Quality, Project Management, Operations and Supply Chain organizations.
