Chief Engineer

Description:

The Chief Engineer serves as GMRE's independent enterprise and portfolio technical authority, protecting technical integrity, airworthiness and safety across current and future programs. The position provides objective assurance that significant technical decisions, risks, reviews, and readiness determinations are supported by sufficient evidence and appropriate engineering rigor. The Chief Engineer works across programs with the Engineering Team to ensure technical rigor and reviews for program specific solutions and provides technical support for senior leadership at the corporate level.

The Chief Engineer works directly with the Director of Engineering, who is responsible for the engineering personnel, capability, staffing, and execution. This ensures GMRE's technical capabilities support its strategic growth in the DoD aviation industry.

• Reports administratively to the Vice President and works as a peer of the Director of Engineering
• Serve as a senior technical advisor to GMRE leadership and customers while preserving the independence required for objective technical assurance.
• Provide independent technical oversight across GMRE's program and technology portfolio and assess overall technical health and engineering rigor.
• Provide independent technical assessments for major proposals, new technologies, strategic initiatives, acquisitions, and enterprise capability decisions.
• Review significant, high-consequence, novel, safety-critical, or mission-critical technical decisions, risks, architectures, failures, and readiness determinations.
• Conduct or chair independent technical reviews and evaluate whether the technical evidence is sufficient to support major conclusions and program milestones.
• Establish enterprise expectations for technical rigor, evidence-based decision-making, technical-risk characterization, and engineering accountability.
• Identify systemic technical risks, recurring engineering weaknesses, cross-program dependencies, and opportunities for common solutions or improved practices.
• Provide technical escalation and independent adjudication when significant technical disagreements cannot be resolved at the program or discipline level.
• Determine and approve document technical concurrence, conditional concurrence, or non-concurrence and recommend additional analysis, testing, mitigation, or corrective action when warranted.
• Mentor Lead Systems Engineers and other senior technical leaders in systems thinking, engineering judgment, technical leadership, and risk-based decision-making.
• Advise the Director of Engineering and senior leadership regarding significant technical risks, engineering capability gaps, and priorities for organizational investment.
• Promote cross-program lessons learned, technical knowledge sharing, reuse of proven approaches, and prevention of recurring technical problems.

GMRE is a small veteran-owned company who cares about our employees. We offer health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), vacation, Paid Time Off (PTO), or Paid Sick Leave (PSL) based on state laws, paid holidays, and life insurance to all permanent full-time employees. GMRE's mission is to provide high-quality engineering and technical services to help our customers grow and succeed.

GMRE is an equal opportunity employer. GMRE is committed to making employment decisions based on valid requirements, without regard to age 40 and over, color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or any other applicable status protected by state or local laws.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

• Extensive knowledge of complex system design, development, integration, verification, validation, testing, production, sustainment, and technical risk management.
• Strong systems-engineering knowledge, including requirements, architecture, interfaces, technical baselines, trade studies, configuration control, and lifecycle considerations.
• Working knowledge of airworthiness, system safety, and qualification processes for DoD aviation.
• Exceptional independent engineering judgment and the ability to evaluate evidence, assumptions,…