Director, Systems Engineering - Agile EO; Electro-Optical Chief Engineer : max

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Harris’ Space and Airborne Systems seeks a Chief Engineer with expertise in electro-optical payloads, subsystems, and software for mid to large aperture national, civil, and commercial space systems. The person in this position will be deployed as a Chief Engineer for a large business area within L3

Harris, responsible for the technical strategy and technical execution of ongoing customer funded efforts. This includes all phases of development from pre-award concept and initial architecture, through design, testing and verification, and on to production, deployment and operational acceptance. The Chief Engineer will be responsible for directing the execution activities of all functional disciplines for existing programs and new pursuits.

• Application of knowledge of national, civil, and commercial space imaging missions to develop sensors, payloads, and space vehicles.
• Provide leadership on optical, electrical, and mechanical assemblies, and drive consistency within technology roadmaps and architectures in area of focus.
• Drive innovation in technical competencies like composite optics, smart payloads, and on-board processing.
• Technical leadership of system modeling and analysis for VIS and IR instruments, large optical assemblies, and payload electronics control sub-systems.
• Works to achieve annual business revenue objectives and manage project initiatives of strategic importance to the organization.
• Identifies IR&D efforts in alignment with technology roadmaps to create technology differentiators.
• Leadership of pursuits with emphasis on technical baseline rigor, cost justification, executability, reuse efficiency, and risk management.
• Provide mentorship to develop lower-level engineering staff into future SMEs.
• Establishes program risks/opportunities.
• Lead/establish Independent Review Teams.
• Responsible for technical issue resolution, ensures root cause is identified and corrective actions are executed.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, or similar technical field or equivalent and a minimum of 15 years of prior relevant engineering experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 19 years of prior related experience.
• Experience working within aerospace and defense industry.
• 3+ years of functional management experience, leading a large team >50 resources across multiple disciplines.
• Active Secret security clearance.

• 5+ years of Space Systems domain ground system knowledge desired.
• Strong multi-disciplinary technical breadth in Space and Ground Domain.
• Ability to quickly understand missions, customer sets, drive strategy.
• Experience in technical issue resolution, ability to ensure root cause is identified.
• Experience with requirements elicitation, analysis and functional allocation, conducting systems requirements reviews, developing concepts of operation and interface standards, developing system architectures, and performing technical/non-technical assessment and management…