Deputy Director of Engineering

ASRC Federal is a leading government contractor furthering missions in space, public health and defense. As an Alaska Native owned corporation, our work helps secure an enduring future for our shareholders. Join our team and discover why we are a top veteran employer and Certified Great Place to Work™

ASRC Federal Mission Solutions is a premier provider of systems engineering, software engineering, system integration and project management services for real-time, mission-critical defense systems. We are currently seeking a full-time Deputy Director of Engineering in Moorestown, NJ.

Responsibilities

• Providing management direction and oversight of a large technical execution-oriented organization
• In conjunction with the Director of Engineering, owns the technical execution responsibility for the organization
• Establishment and execution of operational goals for the Engineering Organization
• Establishment and execution of staffing plans for the Engineering Organization including hiring surges and staffing changes across different engineering organizations
• Oversee execution of the hiring process, review of requisitions, candidates, and candidate assessments; establish offer parameters and provide offer recommendations
• Lead direction and oversight on IR&D activities
• Collaborate with leadership in making moderate to significant improvements to process, products, and organization to enhance performance and effectiveness
• Partner with multiple internal and external customers to influence process, approaches and outcomes
• Provide effective communications to the Engineering Organization on policy, process, organization, and all matters related to the execution of Engineering Organizational responsibilities
• Provide leadership for the development of solutions to complex product and program issues; drawing on experience, provide guidance as to approach for solutions to issues
• Manage timely status development and communication to customers, internal executive leadership and ASRC Federal leadership
• Maintain effective, collaborative, co-operative environment between internal organizations and departments
• Provide input towards Business Development activities and initiatives. Strategy, and Execution of Growth activities for current work and customers as well as capture of new work for existing or new customers
• Collaborate with leadership on award, merit, and promotion activities
• Collaborate with leadership on technical execution operational goals
• Collaborate with leadership on business growth operational goals
• Collaborate with leadership on quality initiatives and quality operational goals
• Collaborate with leadership on training/workforce initiatives and workforce operational goals
  
  

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 8-10 years technical management or related leadership experience with large-scale matrixed organizations. Aegis/Aegis BMD/SSDS experience strongly preferred.
• This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a government clearance, U.S. Citizenship is required.
• This position requires the successful applicant to obtain and maintain the required security clearance or other authorization(s) within the necessary timeframe required by applicable contract(s).
• Strong communication skills including:
• internal and external stakeholders on significant technical and programmatic matters
• Ability to articulate problems, issues, solutions, recommendations internally and to customers
• Strong organizational and project planning skills
• Demonstrated decision making ability
• Demonstrated ability to delegate
• Demonstrated collaborative abilities
• Demonstrated ability to manage rapidly changing customer requirements
• Demonstrated ability to manage surge and rapid growth situations
• Demonstrated ability to positively resolve issues - technical, programmatic, workforce, customer, etc.
• Demonstrated success handling responsibility and building trust, internal and external
• Demonstrated accountability
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate technical, programmatic, financial matters
• Ability to effectively teach, mentor, coach
  

We invest in the lives of our employees, both in and out of the workplace, by providing competitive pay and benefits packages. Benefits offered may include health care, dental, vision, life insurance; 401(k); education assistance; paid time off including PTO, holidays, and any other paid leave required by law.

EEO Statement

ASRC Federal and its Subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, gender, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, religion, marital status, ancestry, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other factor prohibited by applicable law.