New Product Introduction Director

Job Description
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Our flexible work environment provides you a chance to change the world without giving up your personal life. We put our customers first – exemplified by our mission: “We Protect Those Who Protect Us®.” Sound like a team you want to be a part of? Come build your career with BAE Systems.
This is a first shift position working a 9/80 work schedule with every other Friday off!

This role leads the New Product Introduction teams and factories for Countermeasure Electromagnetic Attack (CEMA) Operations. Our NPI leader works hand in hand with Production Factory Leadership, Engineering Technology Development teams (Fast Labs, Engineering IRADs), Engineering Hardware Capability Groups (Producibility Engineering), Operations Technical Directors, and Business Area Chief Engineers on emerging programs to ensure product manufacturability.

As the New Product Introduction Director, you will be responsible for the Pilot Line for the CEMA Factories in Austin Texas and Nashua NH. These teams consist of assembly technicians and engineers who develop the manufacturing processes for new hardware transitioning from development to production.

You will be responsible for understanding the strategy and objectives of the Operations function and the CEMA business area and ensuring that new products are aligned with those strategies and roadmaps. You will be responsible for aligning our Engineering Technology Roadmaps to our Operations Technology roadmap to ensure we are ready to manufacture new products. Additionally, your team will execute many DOEs for process and product improvements, prototypes and IRADs for new or improved manufacturing techniques as well as implement Automation where possible.

As the team leader you must provide technical and analytical guidance to the NPI team and to the program teams with transitioning products. Active participation in technical reviews, architecture reviews and pursuit concepts are required. You will champion and grow CEMA Transition to Production (TTP) best practices and processes, collaborating across functions and business areas as required. You will work closely with the ES Pre-Production Global Process Owner to ensure alignment to the sector’s TTP policies and strategies.


Required Education, Experience, & Skills
Recommended 12 years Manufacturing or Engineering experience including experience transitioning products to production.
Bachelors Degree in Engineering or similar, Management or Business
Must have or be able to obtain a Secret security clearance and Special Access clearances.
Must demonstrate the ability to lead a portfolio of teams of people with mixed skills: program facing, factory facing, technical engineers and touch labor.
Ability to translate current program performance and potential program growth, modernization and sustainment into a comprehensive 5-10-20 year strategy.
Ability to translate issues and concerns to an executive summary for senior leadership.
Ability to analyze data and direct root cause, corrective action teams.
Proficient at identifying, analyzing and developing mitigation plans for risks.
Proficient in Microsoft Office and data analysis.
Solid interpersonal skills.
Executive presentation skills.


Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills
Masters degree in Engineering, Management or Business
Active secret clearance with special access clearances

Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $153377 - $260743

Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.

Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20 hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.


About BAE Systems Electronic Systems
BAE Systems, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, an international defense, aerospace and security company which delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it’s what we do at BAE Systems. Working here means using your passion and ingenuity where it counts – defending national security with breakthrough technology, superior products, and intelligence solutions. As you develop the latest technology and defend national security, you will continually hone your skills on a team—making a big impact on a global scale. At BAE Systems, you’ll find a rewarding career that truly makes a difference. Electronic Systems (ES) is the global innovator behind BAE Systems’ game-changing defense and commercial electronics. Exploiting every electron, we push the limits of what is possible, giving our customers the edge and our employees opportunities to change the world. Our products and capabilities can be found everywhere – from the depths of the ocean to the far reaches of space. At our core are more than 14,000 highly talented Electronic Systems employees with the brightest minds in the industry, we make an impact – for our customers and the communities we serve.

This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days. The posting will remain active until the position is filled, or a qualified pool of candidates is identified.

Salary : $153,377 - $260,743