Sr Systems Engineer Manager

Job Description

Is your Superpower in the "wizardry" of System Design and Management? Our world-class Lansdale Systems Engineering team needs your skills! Our Systems Engineering Manager role will manage a group of engineers that applies broad technical knowledge and skills in various scientific/technical disciplines. They design, analyze, plan, and develop major subsystems and small-scale systems. Systems are primarily in the RF Electronic Warfare (EW) business area that includes Radar Warning (RW), Situational Awareness, Interferometry/Direction Finding (DF), Electronic Attack (EA), as well as Self-Protect RF Counter Measures (RFCM) including on-/off-board systems. The candidates will provide leadership for key project segments and take responsibility for achievement of schedule and technical performance by all department personnel.

The ideal candidate is a leader with a strong systems engineering background who takes a structured approach to development for project design, estimation, execution, and performance tracking. The individual must have a propensity to create designs and provide technical insight to ensure that designs achieve “best value” goals of meeting performance and life cycle requirements within allocated budget and schedule constraints. The team generates circuit analysis for system-level specifications or RF components based on performance, schedule, cost, reliability, and manufacturability goals. This could include any combination of technical research, test, documentation, and presentation. This role works closely with other engineering disciplines to help drive a strong engineering organization that delivers quality products on-time and on-budget.

Responsibilities

KEY RESPONSABILITIES:

Responsibilities

As part of our dynamic engineering team, you will apply broad technical knowledge and skills for the management, design, development, analysis, verification, and release of subsystems. This individual is expected to draw upon ingenuity and engineering principles to help deliver leading-edge architectures into subsystems for the air, on land, and at sea. The Manager will be accountable for the work within the department. Must be capable of evaluating trade-based studies on performance, schedule, cost, reliability, and manufacturability goals. This could include any combination of technical research, test, documentation, and presentation. The Manager works closely with other engineering disciplines and provides technical insight and leadership to ensure that designs achieve "best value" goals of meeting performance and life cycle requirements within allocated constraints. Principal responsibilities include:

• Define and deploy the strategic vision for the Systems Engineering group
• Manage the department resources across a wide variety of programs and IR&D activities
• Assure technical, cost, and schedule goals are met for each development effort
• Provide technical input and support for digital and mixed signal opportunities; including capture strategy, work breakdown structures, architecture, and costing.
• Drive the development & implementation of best practices for rapid design, development, integration, and verification
• Provide engineering expertise and leadership to achieve high customer satisfaction and performance objectives
• Manage talent, including recruitment, mentoring, training, and performance evaluation for proper resource availability and career progression
• Work with cross-functional engineering resources to ensure teams meet the product, business, and time-to-market requirements defined by the company
• Establish the budget for labor, capital, and maintenance for the group
• Contribute to corporate technology roadmap definition and IRAD strategies
• Proactively develop successors for organizational positions and work with team to ensure a robust talent pipeline and career development
• Foster effective relationships at all levels, to enhance and support a culture of learning, empowerment, and collaboration
  
  

Qualifications

MUST HAVE:

• Three (3) years’ experience as a Manager or technical leader of a large program
• Successfully held responsibility for budget & schedule allocation/tracking of a team or multiple large projects
• Five (5) years’ experience with requirements development/management including derivation/decomposition
• Twelve (12) years’ experience serving in an Engineering contributor role (e.g. RF or Systems Engineering) defining architectures using functional elements of a system; RF amplification, antenna, power, mechanical, digital/analog, I/O, and/or SW/FW
• Occasional domestic travel to support government/industry sponsored activities; industry-days, CONOP exercises, technical interchanges
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance
  
  

We Value

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Physics or similar degree from a four-year college or university
• Worked in the defense industry design Electronic Warfare systems
• Familiar with Model Based System Engineering (MBSE)
• Familiar with MS Project, earned value, and resource allocation
• Conducted trade analysis, architectural studies, and performance modeling
• Proposed technical (re-) solutions and their impact on cost, schedule and risk
• Integrated and tested modules or subsystems in various laboratory or field environments
• Generated technical content for submission and/or briefing to internal/external stakeholders
• Participated in customer funded projects or research and development (R&D) that innovated designs/processes to improve offerings
• Ability to develop/derive requirements for software/firmware from higher-level system specifications. Derived digital signal processing (DSP) requirements or algorithms for signal detection or classification
• Experience interfacing with and parameters of RF components; switches, amps, attenuators, TDUs, etc.
• Tracking of department key performance indicators/metrics
• Excellent leadership, organization and communication skills with the ability to maintain a positive and proactive approach to resolve conflict and/or business issues
• Demonstrated flexibility and adaptability to changing priorities and assignments
• Ability to influence others; persuasively present thoughts and ideas; gain commitment and ensure support for proposed ideas
• Active DOD Secret Clearance
  
  

Must be a US Citizen due to contractual requirements.