Consulting Chief Engineer

Consulting Chief Engineer

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or STEM-related discipline with 16 years of experience, or 14 years with a master’s degree and 12 years of experience with a Ph.D.
• Demonstrated technical leadership skills, decisiveness, and ability to make sound technical judgments with limited information.
• Well-versed, skilled, and disciplined in system engineering processes
• Experience leading design, production, and integration of complex systems
• Background in aerospace systems; working knowledge of aircraft systems, missile systems, avionics, software systems, and their design drivers.
• Candidate must have good communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, and good oral and written presentation skills.
• Must have an active DoD Secret clearance (with a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or currently enrolled into Continuous Evaluation)

Responsibilities

• Ownership of the technical baseline and oversees technical activities across multiple contracts within the SiAW Program
• Maintain cognizance over technical activities within and across contracts for requirements development, hardware/software design, integration, and verification/validation activities.
• Solve technical problems and provides solutions that are technically sound and programmatically executable.
• Provides technical leadership, direction and mentoring to other technical employees in the application of systems engineering principles, tools, and techniques to achieve practical end results.
• Chair technical meetings such as requirements reviews, design reviews, and readiness reviews.
• Facilitate technical support, review, and approval of engineering documents and drawings.
• Support program reviews as an engineering review authority, and assist in resolution of program engineering challenges (technical, financial, and staffing)
• Drive process development, continuous improvement, and affordability initiatives
• Ensures that the program is adhering to sound engineering processes in the development, test, and sustainment of products for our customers and is compliant with company policies, procedures, and quality standards.
• Support assessment of cost and schedule impacts of technical decisions
• Be the technical liaison to the program manager to ensure successful execution to project budgets and schedules.
• Support the program manager in risk and opportunity management by identifying and owning risks associated with system performance.
• Interface with functional departments to secure team staffing
• Work with suppliers and be able to articulate project requirements.
• Brief internal and customer leadership on progress of work assigned.
• Act as customer interface for all technical and execution matters related to SiAW Program activity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as technical lead, Integrated Product Team Lead, or other leadership role in a program office or business function with demonstrated team building, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to formally present technical solutions to senior leadership.
• Experience in Air-to-Air weapon systems development
• Experience in hardware/software integration of embedded systems
• Working knowledge of missile propulsion systems
• Experience directly managing or leading engineering teams