Director, Aerospace Engineering

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Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3

Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

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Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Director, Aerospace Engineering

47098

Waco, TX (On-Site)

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

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Harris anticipates and responds to evolving challenges with agile technology, creating a safer and more secure future.

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Harris is seeking an experienced Director of Aeronautical Systems Engineering to lead a multi-site organization of more than 700 engineers supporting the development, integration, and sustainment of advanced aeronautical systems. This senior functional leader will build and sustain a highly capable, collaborative workforce while ensuring technical excellence, disciplined execution, and alignment with enterprise and program objectives.

Leading through subordinate managers and technical leaders, the Director will drive workforce strategy, organizational effectiveness, engineering governance, process improvement, and technology capability growth. The role requires close partnership with functional stakeholders.

This leader will foster engagement, accountability, diversity of thought, and continuous learning while advancing talent development, innovation, affordability, and mission success.

• Lead and develop a multi-site Aeronautical Systems Engineering organization of 700+ engineers through subordinate leaders and technical authorities, ensuring strong organizational performance and execution.
• Establish the function’s strategic vision, priorities, and operating model in alignment with sector and enterprise objectives.
• Direct workforce planning, staffing, succession planning, leadership development, and talent pipeline growth to meet current and future business needs.
• Foster a culture of inclusion, engagement, accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Own engineering governance, policies, processes, and standards to ensure consistent execution, technical rigor, and compliance with company, customer, contractual, regulatory, airworthiness, safety, security, and quality requirements.
• Lead engineering contributions to capture and proposal efforts, including basis of estimate development, labor forecasting, technical scope definition, risk assessment, and capability positioning.
• Develop and execute technology and capability roadmaps, multi-year capital plans, and engineering investment strategies to support modernization and long-term business and program needs.
• Manage engineering overhead, functional budgets, resource allocation, and productivity initiatives to improve affordability and operational efficiency.
• Champion digital engineering, model-based systems engineering, process modernization, and data-driven decision-making.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to integrate engineering execution across development, test, production, and sustainment.
• Represent engineering in executive reviews, customer engagements, technical interchange meetings, gate reviews, and strategic planning forums.
• Perform…