Product Line Chief Engineer

Description

The Product Line Chief Engineer (PLCE) is the overall technical authority for the Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) product line. The PLCE is accountable for all technical aspects of IAMD products and leads a team of engineers to ideate, conceptualize, develop, launch, and sustain products throughout the total product lifecycle. The PLCE works with Customers and Product Line Managers to develop concepts of operations that feed into product roadmaps to meet business objectives.

The PLCE chairs the technical review boards and drives the technical requirements for any failure analysis and root cause corrective action activities. The PLCE also serves as functional leader to a small and distinguished group of Program Chief Engineers (PCE).

• Personifies the AV pillar of “Innovation”
• As the IAMD Engineering Authority, oversees all development and product sustainment activities within IAMD
• Represents/communicates the technical interests of IAMD to internal and external stakeholders
• Drives the technical response for business proposals
• Via PCEs, leads the technical team that will efficiently and effectively fulfill program technical, schedule and cost requirements and drives process improvements within IAMD, consistent with the Segment Engineering vision
• Supports the creation of product technical roadmaps by collaborating with Product Line Management, Customers, CTO and additional internal stakeholders
• Chairs the technical review board and is the final authority for product documentation and engineering change requests/orders
• Collaborates with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Quality to ensure technical specifications, as designed, are managed/controlled and flow through the entire value chain
• Responsible for all technical aspects of the product success
• Develops and supports the development of plans for product IRAD and sustaining projects through proper work decomposition and skills assignment to project work tasks
• Presents technical concepts to customers in support of business area initiatives. Identifies and assigns program/project technical tasks
• Manages development and approval of engineering estimates and drives to a consistent approach for bases of estimates
• Develops and mentors high‑performing engineering teams
• Owns engineering budgets, forecasts, and IRAD execution
• Leads multi‑discipline engineering activities and mentors engineers to improve technical and leadership skills
• Partners with functional leaders to drive process improvements throughout the engineering development processes
• Has a seat on the IAMD leadership team, which requires strong collaboration with peers, ability to provide tactical and strategic insights, and a passion for technologies which enable C‑UAS solutions to expand
• Responsible for functional leadership and direct performance management of a small and distinguished group of Program Chief Engineers (PCE)
• Works with other engineering functional leaders to staff and prioritize engineering tasking across IAMD programs to ensure flawless execution
• Leads root cause investigations and rolls out corrective actions (RCCA)
• Other duties as assigned

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical, or Systems Engineering discipline (or equivalent)
• Experience with Defense products and customers, especially in C‑UAS or missile products
• Minimum of 15 years of demonstrated experience in aerospace product design and sustainment
• Experience with leading large technical teams through the product lifecycle
• Experience with drawings and BOMs;
  Engineering Change systems;
  Quality systems for non‑conforming parts and corrective action
• Experience in an Agile and Waterfall development environment
• Excellent verbal, presentation, and written communication skills
• Experience with integrating new capabilities onto platforms, requiring flow‑down of requirements to lower‑level systems
• Experience project planning in terms of schedule, budget, and resource estimations
• Exceptional leadership and management skills, with the ability to develop and communicate a vision that inspires and motivates staff and aligns with the business strategy
• Ability to build strong…