Chief Engineer Sr Mgr - L6

** Standard

Job Description *
* This position is for a Chief Engineering Sr. Manager for the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Affordable Capability Effector (ACE) program in Integrated Air & Missile Defense (IAMD). The successful candidate will report to the PAC-3 Chief Engineer and be expected to work closely with the members of the IAMD Chief Engineering staff to ensure synergy across tasks and to communicate lessons learned, as well as other MFC Chief Engineers to ensure cross-program collaboration.

** What You Will Be Doing** :

As a Chief Engineer supporting ACE, you will be responsible for:

+ Providing technical leadership across all engineering disciplines to enable the team to meet all execution milestones for the program

+ Support the program through development and transition to production

+ Developing a new missile as common as possible with Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement, but with increased availability and lower cost.  Being familiar with the PAC-3 launcher and interfaces along with the Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) will be a plus for this role.

+ Developing and nurturing a productive partnership with the USG customer

+ Guiding Engineering team, 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 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 tasks with the entire 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*
* + Have a minimum of a bachelor's degree in engineering from an accredited college or university, with existing professional experience

+ Must have 8+ years of experience

+ Must possess ability to plan and lead the technical teams/efforts associated with Complex Missile…