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Essential Functions:

• Serve as the company’s technical authority for a family of product line systems and corresponding programs and proposals; serve as the technical point of contact for customers.
• Serve as the systems engineering functional lead for the product line teams’ lead engineers.
• Review, analyze, and understand system concept of operation, product architectures, design, and interfaces, and subsystem functions, interfaces, and operations; facilitate knowledge sharing across the project teams.
• Plan, coordinate, and proactively monitor engineering development, laboratory, range, and live fire testing, and low rate initial production at System and SoS levels.
  • Able to succinctly and effectively brief status and results to program and customer senior leadership.
  • Perform technical analysis / feasibility assessments for new product specifications, evaluate customer specifications, lead multi-discipline trade studies, and lead technical proposal generation.
  • Interface effectively with people at all levels and from diverse technical backgrounds.
  • Provide leadership to teams and guidance to less experienced staff members.
  • Possess exquisite interpersonal skills, able to work effectively within the organization and convey decisions, direction, results, and conclusions in a manner meaningful to the audience.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering and a minimum of 15 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
• Mastery level knowledge within a specific technical area or multiple job areas, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience. Viewed as an expert and/or resource within the field by peers in and outside the organization.
• Demonstrated service as a Program Chief Engineer for a minimum of two years on a large program (i.e., contract value > $100M) with major subcontracts (e.g., at least two suppliers each with a contract value > $5M).
• Demonstrated leadership experience in product line system development and production programs.
• Experience with System Integration Lab utilization to reduce field testing demands, and leading multiple subcontract efforts during integration and test.
• Demonstrated ‘One Team’ collaboration and team building mindset, with internal subsystem team and multiple external suppliers, teammates, platform providers, and DoD organizations across all product lifecycle phases.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work well within and outside of the organization including customers, vendors, and company or program leadership without oversight.

Preferred Additional Skills:.

• Military customer experience is desired.
• Strong perference for Naval/Maritime program experience.
• Contract and supplier negotiation experience is preferred.
• Previous experience with Infrared (IR), Electro-Optical (EO), or equivalent sensor systems, electronic systems or weapons systems.
• Prior program experience with logistical support of fielded systems.
• Previous Program Chief Engineer experience on two or more programs, with at least one program > $250M.