Manager, Interconnect Engineering

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Job Title:
Manager, Interconnect Engineering

Job Code: 42570

Job Location:
Salt Lake City, Utah

Job Schedule: 9/80:
Employees work 9 out of every 14 days- totaling 80 hours worked- and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

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Harris is seeking a people-focused engineering leader to manage Interconnect Engineering within Mechanical Engineering. This role leads engineers responsible for cable, harness, connector, and related interconnect solutions that support ruggedized electronic and electro-mechanical hardware across development, production, and sustainment.

The Manager translates business priorities into short-term operating plans, aligns staffing and execution to program needs, and ensures the team delivers technically sound, manufacturable, and reliable interconnect designs. The role combines direct leadership of engineers with hands-on engagement in design direction, process improvement, customer support, and cross-functional problem solving.

Essential Functions:

Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of interconnect engineers supporting multiple programs, product lines, and customer commitments.

Plan team workload, staffing, and priorities for proposals, new product development, qualification efforts, production support, and sustainment activities based on business needs and skill mix.

Provide technical direction for cable and harness design, connector selection, shielding and grounding approaches, wire and cable specification, routing, packaging, and interface definition.

Ensure interconnect designs satisfy system, electrical, mechanical, environmental, manufacturability, reliability, cost, and schedule requirements while maintaining clear design intent and documentation quality.

Partner closely with systems, electrical, mechanical, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, test, and program teams to resolve interface issues, drive design maturity, and support successful product execution.

Oversee the creation and review of drawings, models, wiring documentation, parts lists, build instructions, and related design artifacts to ensure accuracy, consistency, and configuration control.

Drive standard work for peer reviews, design reviews, lessons learned, parts selection, supplier engagement, and documentation quality to improve repeatability and reduce execution risk.

Support issue resolution during hardware build, qualification, production, and fielded product support through structured root-cause analysis and timely corrective action.

Contribute to proposal development, basis-of-estimate creation, technical risk assessments, and customer presentations related to interconnect design capability, maturity, and execution plans.

Hire, onboard, mentor, and assess team members; provide clear feedback, performance management, and development plans that strengthen both technical depth and leadership capability.

Champion practical improvements in tools, workflows, automation, and engineering methods that increase team efficiency without sacrificing technical rigor or compliance.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

Master's degree in Engineering, Engineering Management, or a related field.

Experience supporting aerospace, defense, ruggedized electronics, or other…