Job DescriptionBAE Systems is seeking an Engineering Manager to support our work as a prime contractor on a high-profile U.S. Navy weapon system. The ideal candidate will be someone who can lead a team of four to nine engineers toward meeting a set of objectives, demonstrate the behaviors to effectively communicate, coordinate, collaborate, and work in a visible and proactive manner across organizational boundaries to deliver positive results. This role is fit for someone who can be a highly engaging, team-oriented, problem solving, and self-starting individual able to respond rapidly to a dynamic programmatic environment.
As the Engineering Manager for System Integration, your responsibilities span engineering management, personnel management, and customer relationship management including:
Engineering Management
- Manage execution of engineering capabilities (people, process, tools) and work products (deliverables) in the areas of System Integration policy and process definition.
- Ensure the timely development of System Integration products to support issuance of contract deliverables.
- Support System Integration activities across the engineering lifecycle, for a complex systems-of-systems.
- Identify System Integration assessment characteristics that can be gathered from component level design development and integration event activities for use in system level integration assessments.
- Support program leadership in the development of:
- Product development schedule to support programmatic milestones associated with Integration deliverables.
- Presentations and materials to support subsystem and system level technical reviews.
- Presentations and materials to support program reviews.
- Identification of technical and programmatic risks, including mitigation plans.
- Attending meetings, as necessary, to support tasks above. Some meetings may occur offsite, requiring local travel to Washington, DC or to subsystem development/testing facilities.
- Applying Modeling-based Systems Engineering tools to develop digital engineering products.
- Continuous monitoring of products and processes to identify opportunities for improvement.
Personnel Management
- Functional management over a four-to-nine person team to include performance and development objective setting, conduct of semi-annual performance reviews, personnel development and training, annual salary planning, resource planning, balancing workload across personnel, and hiring/onboarding of new personnel.
- Assemble, lead, and manage high-performance team focused on delivering engineering products and developing innovative solutions to complex mission and business challenges.
Customer Relationship Management
- Establish and maintain exceptional relationships with GS-14 level US Navy customers/clients to solve technical problems and implement solutions of high complexity.
Required Skills and EducationBachelor of Science degree in Systems, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering
Additional skills/experience required:
- 6 years' experience supporting systems engineering on large DoD programs
- Experience with major weapon system development product lifecycle and technologies
- Experience with conducting compatibility analysis of interface requirements
- Experience with integration of models, software, and / or hardware
- Experience with various engineering tools / languages including PTC Windchill, IBM DOORS, 2D/3D CAD, SysML, and/or MATLAB Simulink
- Experience with leading projects involving multiple team members
- Experience with presenting project status to management and/or the client
- Experience in organizing and hosting meetings involving multiple stakeholders
- Willing to travel approximately 10% of the time
- Must possess strong organizational, time management, and project management skills
- Proficient with PC and MS Office Suite
Preferred Skills and Education- Experience in managing a team of Engineers
- 8 years' experience supporting systems engineering on large DoD programs
- Experience with the Navy SSP or TRIDENT programs
- Prior experience working in missile weapon systems, space, and/or nuclear fields.
- Experience with technical presentations and customer-facing activities at the leadership level.
- Demonstrated success partnering with customers to understand critical challenges, shape customer requirements, develop innovative solutions, and manage execution of solutions through implementation
- Experience with various engineering tools / languages including PTC Windchill, IBM DOORS, 2D/3D CAD, SysML, and/or MATLAB Simulink
- INCOSE ASEP or CSEP certification
