System Engineering Section Manager

Engineering Manager Role And Technical Contributor/Leader

Ready to make a difference? Our employees design, integrate, and test the world's next generation Electronic Warfare (EW) and communication systems for the United States DoW and international customers. You will be among the brightest minds, working on the aerospace and defense industry's most difficult problems. This role is for a combined Engineering Manager Role and Technical Contributor/Leader. We welcome all those who have big ideas, crave innovation, and want to develop, build and work on the world's most advanced electromagnetic spectrum operations systems - detecting, locating and countering threats for US and international aircrew.

We develop highly sophisticated digital Electronic Warfare (EW) systems and are looking for motivated and positive minded engineers, skilled in EW product development that will move us into the future. We put our customers first - exemplified by our mission: "We Protect Those Who Protect Us®." Come build your career with us. This role is a dual role as a coach and player, where some of your time is allocated to being a manager of a team of system engineers and part of your time as a system engineering contributor.

Roles and Responsibilities (Team Manager):
You will manage a team of engineers (30-40) supported by functional managers that will report to you. You will report directly to the director of Systems engineering, where he/she will be your guide and mentor. As the section manager of systems engineers, you will have the following responsibilities:

• As a senior member of the systems engineering staff help to shape the future of systems engineering to optimize performance
• Know and champion the application of the system engineering process, methods, resources (e.g. tools & people) and culture with your team
• Recruit, retain, train, recognize and develop systems engineers to achieve their highest potential in alignment with the business needs
• Assign team members as appropriate to programs, IRADs and proposals
• Regularly meet with your teams to flow-down company, business area and system engineering information. Share system engineering process, methods, tools and norms with your team
• Ensure group members adhere to BAE Systems' cultural principals, policies and vision

Roles and Responsibilities (Technical/Leader contributor):
This part of the role, will enable you to participate in developing our EW solutions for our customers. As the system engineering contributor, you can have the following exciting opportunities:

• Apply your systems engineering skills across the product development lifecycle
• Participate in product capture and proposals, product design, trade studies, requirements derivation and allocation
• Conduct and lead design reviews
• Create engineering development plans
• Develop product architectural design models, performance models and tools
• Lead or participate in system integration, verification and test
• Support to our product sustainment
• Direct or participate in testing our products at customer and USG test facilities
• Support the build of our products our factories.

You may not have experience in all phases of the product lifecycle, but in this role you will have opportunity to further your existing engineering skills and develop new ones. Because of the need for consistent, in-person collaboration and/or the requirement to perform all work onsite due to the nature of this particular role, it will be performed full-time onsite. Required Education, Experience, & Skills

• Active DoW Secret security clearance
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as Engineering, Mathematics or Computer Science and 12+ years of work experience or 10+ years with an engineering Masters degree or equivalent
• Experience with Systems engineering development of RFEW or similar DoW systems
• RFEW system design experience and product development (System V diagram)
• Technical team leadership
• Strong skill in people management and team collaboration within systems engineering and across the disciplines
• Able to evaluate root cause and enact timely decision making
• Able to lead a team to adapt to changes efficiently

Preferred Education, Experience, &…