Program Engineering Manager

Battelle delivers when others can’t. We conduct research and development, manage national laboratories, design and manufacture products and deliver critical services for our clients—whether they are a multi-national corporation, a small start-up or a government agency.

We recognize and appreciate the value and contributions of individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences and welcome all qualified individuals to apply.

The Program Engineering Manager (PEM) will be responsible for program technical leadership; they will plan, execute, and manage all engineering efforts within their programs. They will monitor and drive engineering cost and schedule performance, while ensuring program technical objectives are met. This role will support multiple programs including proposal activities, research projects, development programs, and/or production programs. The successful applicant will bring a strong RF design, production, and systems engineering background.

This position manages the on-site engineers’ technical tasks, identifies appropriate staffing needs, and is a key member of the Division leadership team. Other program stakeholders for which this technical leader interfaces are the program managers, contracts, finance, quality, operations, suppliers, and our customers. This engineering leadership position is involved in the complete engineering (ISO certified) lifecycle of products and programs from concept definition, through the proposal phase, requirements analysis, development and test, verification, and sustainment.

This includes performing reviews of the various engineering work-products produced by the engineers during the lifecycle.

• Lead the development and production of custom digital and RF systems designs

• Work with Principal Investigators to advance overall technical skills and develop R&D expertise in the forefront of compact phased array and digital signal processing systems

• Be the engineering focal point for all activity within their programs including strategic planning, bid and proposal support for engineering content, engineering strategy and integrated plans on programs, engineering staffing, issue reporting, and risk and opportunity management

• Provide overall project technical execution leadership; plan, execute, and manage all engineering efforts within the project. This includes tailoring company processes and procedures to execute programs ranging from research to volume production

• Partner and collaborate with program managers, Team Leads, subcontractors, customers, and factories to ensure program goals, requirements, and needs are understood and achieved

• Develop and monitor project plans and execution to ensure technical and work scope requirements, schedule, and budget are well defined and maintained

• Effectively communicate with clear, concise messaging to teams and leadership

Because this role involves close collaboration with a diversity of staff operating in physical laboratories and production environments, the role is onsite at our Columbus Ohio Facility.

• Actively contributes to business unit strategic planning. Assists in the development of the business unit marketing plan, financial plan and human resources plan. Provides input to the required skill set mix required to execute major programs and/or project portfolio.

• Guides project and task managers in using configuration management and control processes to manage project/program change. Establishes strategies for using EVM analysis in making project/program decisions to ensure timely and cost-effective delivery of specified services and products. Monitors the use of EVM analysis by managers to make responsible decisions about performance of subcontractors, partners and others. Ensures change management policies and processes to evaluate changes, examine options, and make responsible decisions regarding scope, schedule and performance change are followed.
  
  Ensures that control is exercised over budgets, acquisitions, schedules, configuration, risk, and technical performance throughout the program implementation process.

• Recruits and selects program, project and task…