The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Instrumentation Group Leader

Aerospace & Defense
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in engineering, design, development, and management of complex systems
  • Advanced degree in Physics, Electrical Engineering, or related field; PhD preferred
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office Applications
  • Strong supervisory skills for managing a team of 10-20 members
  • Excellent communication and written skills

Responsibilities

  • Initiate new concepts and programs aligned with the team and Sponsor needs
  • Promote staff development and establish a vigorous recruiting practice
  • Oversee group work to maintain high quality and integrity standards
  • Communicate ideas and accomplishments through various formats
  • Shape technology offerings and expand into new business areas
  • Act as the Lead Subject Matter Expert in area of specialty
  • Analyze Draper’s strategy to align capabilities with customer priorities

Benefits

  • Extensive benefits package and retirement plan
  • Support for work-life balance with flexible workplace policies
  • Programs for career development and employee clubs
  • Health and finance workshops
  • Discounts to local museums and cultural activities
Full Job Description
Job Description Summary:
Draper is conducting a nationwide search for the next leader of our Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Instrumentation Group. In this role you will:

Initiate new concepts and build new programs by leveraging the creativity and talents of our team and collaborators, and a deep and growing understanding of our Sponsors' mission critical needs, as well as Draper's Strategic Mission Focus Areas (SMFAs).

Grow and sustain the most impactful PN&T team in the industry by establishing a vigorous recruiting practice, sponsoring graduate students and faculty conducting exceptional research, and actively encouraging, challenging and promoting development of all staff members.

Communicate our ideas and accomplishments in a meaningful way through proposals and white papers, invited national study boards, conferences, journal articles and patents.

Oversee the work performed by the group, ensuring it achieves the highest standards of quality and integrity, while anticipating and meeting the needs of our Sponsors.

Due to the nature of our Sponsors' missions, this position is necessarily performed onsite in our recently-renovated Cambridge facility and laboratories. Eligible candidates will be a US citizen and qualify for a TS clearance or above. Aligned with our goal of developing long-term relationships with key staff, we offer the best benefits package and retirement plan in our industry. High potential, early career, and non-traditional candidates encouraged to apply.

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 their area of expertise. and conduct performance evaluations of group members.
• Maintain awareness of staffing requirements, write job requisitions (responsibilities and required 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 customer's strategic priorities.

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

Additional Job Description:

Advanced degree in Physics, Electrical Engineering or a related field is required. PhD preferred. Tier and compensation depends upon experience.

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

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Job Location - City:
Cambridge

Job Location - State:
Massachusetts

Job Location - Postal Code:


The US base salary range for this full-time position is
$100,000.00 - $275,000.00
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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