Senior Specialist,Systems Engineering Job Burlington area,Ontario Canada,Engineering

L3

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Senior Specialist, Systems Engineering

Reference #34557

Hamilton, Ontario

About L3

HARRIS WESCAM

As a subsidiary of L3

Harris Technologies and within the Integrated Mission Systems Segment, the WESCAM division develops the most advanced optical sensor and targeting systems for global defense and military sectors, National Security, Search & Rescue and Airborne law enforcement agencies. From long-range covert surveillance missions to search and rescue operations, our MX-series systems, and the mission systems solutions they are a part of, produce stabilized high-magnification electro-optical and infrared images from airborne, marine and ground based platforms, enabling our customers to see first and act first.

About the Role

This role is responsible for defining, analyzing, and managing system-level requirements that ensure seamless integration across optical, mechanical, electrical, and software subsystems. You will also be responsible for end-to-end Verification and Validation to ensure the delivered system meets all performance, environmental, and functional requirements. The position bridges leadership and technical responsibilities, is fast paced and requires close collaboration with cross-functional engineering teams to ensure design consistency, traceability and compliance with program and industry standards.

Primary Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership for the execution/development of EO/IR projects and contracted programs

Manage multiple technical projects in a cross functional environment, with the ability to balance requirements of a variety of stakeholders, including internal and external parties

Estimate and assign work packages and monitor and control execution of work

Provide Mentorship of junior team members

Work with the R&A Manager to identify risks, issues, opportunities and mitigation

Develop a strong presence across engineering and other areas of the business to maximize collaboration and synergy in an effort to meet project goals

Own Concepts of Operation, system specifications and interface control documents

Work collaboratively with Software Engineering to design, test and document new product features and ensure traceability to top level requirements

Support flight test and customer demonstrations setup, troubleshooting and performance characterization.

Maintain requirement traceability in IBM DOORS

Support the Bids and Proposals process as required, providing reviews and inputs in support of compliance matrix completion

Support E3 Excellence and Continuous Improvement initiatives

Participate in technical design reviews / gate reviews to ensure system design integrity is achieved, test and evaluation concerns are addressed and NPI milestone dates are achieved

Participate in interviews and peer reviews as required

Perform functional verification tests and support system integration verification/validation tests

Generate qualification plans, qualification summary reports and qualification by similarity reports

Ensure deliverable product meets the design objectives

Required Capabilities

Well-developed and effective oral and written communication and interpersonal skills

Strong leadership, planning, organizational and analytical skills

Proven understanding of Systems Engineering principals

Strong Project and technical management skills, demonstrated on assigned projects

Ability to deal directly with internal and external customers

Extensive knowledge of and high-level…


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