Engineering Vice President, Business Group Chief Engineer

Job Description

As Vice‑President level, The Uncrewed Systems (UxS) Business Group Chief Engineer (BGCE) is the overall technical authority for the UxS business group. The BGCE is accountable for all technical aspects of the products and leads a team of engineers to ideate, conceptualize, develop, launch, and sustain products throughout the total product lifecycle. The BGCE works with customers and product line managers to develop concepts of operations that feed into product roadmaps to meet business objectives.

The BGCE chairs technical review boards and drives technical requirements for failure analysis and root‑cause corrective actions. The BGCE also serves as functional leader to a small and distinguished group of Product Line Chief Engineers (PLCE).

• Personifies the AV pillar of “Innovation”.
• Oversees all development and product sustainment activities within the business group.
• Represents/communicates the technical interests of the business group to internal and external stakeholders.
• Drives the technical response for business proposals.
• Leads the technical team that fulfills program technical, schedule and cost requirements and drives process improvements within the business group, consistent with the Segment Engineering vision.
• Supports the creation of product technical roadmaps by collaborating with Product Line Management, Customers, CTO and other 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 are managed/controlled and flow through the entire value chain.
• Responsible for all technical aspects of product success.
• Develops and supports plans for product IRAD and sustaining projects through proper work decomposition and skill assignment to project tasks.
• Presents technical concepts to customers in support of business group initiatives; identifies and assigns program/project technical tasks.
• Manages development and approval of engineering estimates and drives a consistent approach for bases of estimates.
• Leads multi‑discipline engineering activities and mentors engineers to improve technical and leadership skills.
• Drives process improvements throughout the engineering development processes.
• Part of business group leadership team, requiring strong collaboration with peers, the ability to provide tactical and strategic insights, and a passion for technologies that enable UAS solutions to expand.
• Responsible for functional leadership and direct performance management of a small and distinguished group of Program Line Chief Engineers (PLCE).
• Works with other engineering functional leaders to staff and prioritize engineering tasking across programs to ensure flawless execution.
• Leads root cause investigations and rolls out corrective actions (RCCA).
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical, or Systems Engineering (or equivalent).
• Experience with Defense products and customers.
• Minimum of 15 years of demonstrated experience in aerospace product design and sustainment.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience leading large technical teams through the product lifecycle.
• Experience with drawings, BOMs, engineering change systems, and 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 integrating new capabilities onto platforms, requiring flow‑down of requirements to lower‑level systems.
• Experience in 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 relationships within all disciplines within the organization.
• Effective influencing and negotiation skills in an environment where resources may not be under direct control.
• Experience with product manufacturing and product configuration…