N156 Chief Engineer

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The Chief Engineer is accountable to ensure the Department’s deliverables are of the highest quality, given the importance of the mission. The Chief Engineer of the Air & Space Force Coalition Capabilities Department works with stakeholders within the Department’s sponsor-base, partnering countries, as well as across MITRE to align and shape activities that have shared equities with all government sponsors. The Chief Engineer is accountable for coordinating with other A&SFC, Mission Driven Integration, and Ops in Contested Environments Department/Division Chief Engineers to ensure the requisite level of quality standards are met on interconnected efforts while ensuring the relevance and impact of our products.

The Chief Engineer’s responsibilities include:

• Ensure the strength of the Department’s work by shaping its content and bringing a perspective that reflects knowledge of the Department’s domain and technical capability areas
• Provide technical direction and oversight to the project and other Department efforts
• Implement the technical quality program across the analytical domain to ensure products and recommendations delivered to MITRE’s sponsors are independent, data-driven, technically sound, and properly reviewed
• Provide assessment of the FFRDC appropriateness of project activities within our work program and provide recommendations to ensure impactful use of FFRDC staff and resources
• Collaborate with Chief Engineers across MNS, MPS, and MTE to identify opportunities to define and improve technical quality norms across the Corporation
• Collaborate with Chief Engineers across MITRE including MPS, MNS, and MTE to identify opportunities to align efforts and increase impact to sponsors

• Lead key technical areas across the Department and manage the Department’s connections across MNS and MITRE in concert with the Department Manager
• Represent the Department’s requirements to the MITRE internal research and development community to assist with defining investments to address sponsors’ pressing operational challenges
• Drive technical contributions to impact mission
• Provide technical expertise and guidance at the project, task, and individual levels

• Partner in developing, refining, and driving the Department’s contributions to the Center and Division strategies and help ensure our contributions satisfy its goals, objectives, and initiatives
• Identify new areas where MITRE is either uniquely positioned, or has an opportunity to provide, innovative capabilities to existing and emerging sponsors
• Identify capability areas of focus for the Department that are aligned to current and future sponsor needs
• Provide continuous assessment of the Department’s capabilities to inform hiring activities and investment opportunities

• Demonstrate and promote MITRE’s cultural attributes (speed, risk-taking, adaptability, collaboration, grace and respect)
• Mentor and develop staff and promote career path development and succession planning
• Promote a culture of collaboration across all staff…