Chief Engineer Mgr; L5 Grand Prairie, TX

Position: Chief Engineer Mgr (L5) | Grand Prairie, TX | 14567
Requisition  Eligible?:
Yes

ERP amount: $50 LMRecognition

Relocation:
Possible Type:
Leader

Shift: 1

Clearance Prior to Start:
Secret Final Clearance:
Secret Pay Transparency: $ - $Experience Level: Experienced Professional FT/PT/Casual:
Full Time Department : MFC-Primary Business Unit: MFC-Primary Standard

Job Description IAMD-AP is seeking a Program Chief Engineer to support a Navy surface ship based Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) and Launcher development program. The role will lead a fast-moving team for a Navy development program in fielding the air vehicle, launcher, and fire control subsystems to the surface ship fleet.  The role will also lead the continuous R&D integration and development activities for the modular payloads, including radio frequency (RF) components for continuous capability improvements.

The role will report to the IAMD-AP Chief Engineer programmatically and be expected to work closely with the other members of the IAMD-AP Chief Engineer staff as well as the Advanced Programs and customer community

What You Will Be Doing:

Providing technical leadership that enables the team to meet and demonstrate all capture, development, and rapid fielding milestones on schedule

Providing technical support and working with the U.S. Government (USG) customer

Guiding IPT leads and cross-functional teams in program planning, scheduling, trade studies, design concepts, verification, and critical life cycle reviews

Ensuring program staffing is appropriate from an E&T perspective

Collaborating with Engineering Excellence management to ensure program milestones are successfully completed

Supporting and/or leading program technical reviews and participating in monthly E&T meetings, staff meetings, and other critical program activities

Communicating lessons learned and ensuring synergy across the Chief Engineer staff

Accountable for all aspects of engineering and technology activities within a program, program area, or line of business to ensure mission milestones and business objectives are met. Serves as the primary technical authority / technical interface with internal program management and external customers. Ensures proposals have sound technical solutions and schedules and drive affordability. Leads a technical team of cross functional engineers to ensure successful proper system/product development and execution.

Evaluates and ensures complex issues are resolved in a cost effective, innovative way. Champion mission success and drive a mission success culture. Directs a team into exploration of new problem solution areas with novel concepts and approaches, guiding scope definition and prioritizing problems for investigation. Determine appropriate risk posture and develop mitigation strategies for complex projects. Ensure selected designs are robust and include appropriate margins to facilitate safety, performance, producibility and operational availability/supportability.

Ensures program plans and technical baselines are consistent with Program Control processes and Modern Engineering Practices. Responsible for key decision making that impact businesses, the failure to achieve the objectives result in critical impact of program capabilities. Ensures identification of lessons learned, and corrective action are initiated and implemented to improve future and ongoing programs. Provides technical mentoring and career development support of team and allocates resources effectively.

Leads and directs the technical execution efforts of the program or LOB.Basic Qualifications Candidate must have a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited college or university, with existing professional experience

Candidate must have CAM and manpower forecasting experience

Candidate must have wide experience interfacing with the ENGX organization

Candidate must have prior experience briefing external customers

Candidate must have hardware development experience utilizing a Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) environment.

Candidate must be available for occasional domestic travel.

Candidate must have a Secret clearance

Desired Skills An advanced degree in engineering from an accredited college or university is desired

Experience with Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) system development, integration, and testing. This must include experience with developing all aspects including the air vehicle, the launcher, RF systems, and the control systems.

Familiarity and knowledge of the US Navy Surface Ship Systems customers and products is…