Dir. of Energy Storage and Power System IPT

Director Of Energy Storage And Power System (Esps) Ipt

At Wisk, we're transforming the future of urban mobility through safe, all-electric, autonomous flight. We are a passionate team working together toward a sustainable future, solving high-impact problems that have never been solved before. By delivering everyday flight for everyone, we're making it possible to spend less time getting there and more time being there. If you want to be part of shaping the future of mobility, then read on!

The Director of Energy Storage and Power System (ESPS) IPT (Integrated Product Team) is a position responsible for the vertical development, design, integration, certification and delivery of safety critical Aircraft Battery Packs, Battery Management System, Power Distribution, Power Conversion and Charging systems throughout the aircraft. You will work closely with all interfacing IPTs including Avionics, Propulsion, EWIS and Passenger Systems.

The Director will provide project-specific cross-functional leadership with responsibility for planning, monitoring, controlling and reporting on all their team's activities. This person will be accountable for ensuring their team's objectives are achieved within the scope, schedule and budget allocation, and consistent with quality and technical standards.

You will utilize your technical and business acumen to drive program, technical decisions and set objectives to meet the program schedule. You will be responsible for planning and coordinating the resources required to execute the program.

Successful candidates will utilize proven methods to monitor adherence to schedule and budget, manage risk, plan and verify product technical maturity, and ensure their team's technical delivery across all their products is at the highest standards.

Due to the nature of the work required for this position, this is an onsite opportunity. You will be required to work from our Mountain View office.

Responsibilities:

• Lead their IPT's technical development efforts related to architecture, design, development, integration, validation, performance, certification and production.
• Engage with other IPT Leaders, Chief Engineers, Functional Managers, Program Office and Company Leadership to ensure successful program planning and execution
• Authority and accountability for their IPT's technical scope in alignment with schedule and budget.
• Support overall Program success by defining schedule inputs and changes into the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), maintaining timely and effective change management of the schedule.
• Monitor technical maturity and ensure that issues impacting progression are addressed immediately and corrective actions and recovery plans are implemented expeditiously
• Plan and coordinate activities to support formal validation and verification, including any and all test activities
• Implement and follow risk management activities to manage program technical, schedule and cost risk.
• Coordinate the engineering review, approval and release processes of all key deliverables
• Support multidisciplinary program reviews and presentations throughout the different phases of development, certification, and production readiness with internal and external stakeholders

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or other relevant STEM field
• 15+ years of experience in Aerospace or Battery engineering development and leadership with responsibility for scheduling and team/personnel management
• 5+ years of experience in leading a multi-functional, technically-oriented, Integrated Product Team
• 5+ years of experience in high-integrity battery system vertical development
• Detailed knowledge of high and low voltage electrical power distribution topologies
• Strong engineering analytical and technical skills with demonstrated experience delivering integrated technical solutions.
• Strong communicator and excellent soft skills to work across the whole organization.
• Experience performing cost and schedule management
• Experience with risk, issues, and/or opportunity management
• Strong decision-making abilities
• Effective at managing a wide range of tasks and rapidly changing priorities.
• Knowledge of systems engineering and systems…